Education is one social cause I truly support. With recent increase
in Rapes/Harassment/Eve-Teasing/Dowry in the city, it is very important that education
of the society is treated as whole and not a girl child or male child.
Resident of both a metro city and a tier II city, I can feel
the difference in the mind-sets of people. There are three types of people
(especially referring to the topic)
- Un-educated
- Educated but act like un-educated
- Educated and act wisely
Cause of worry is the type 1 and equally type 2. Type 1 is
the roots of the bigger problems like Population, Poverty, and Rapes etc.
however Type 2 are more vulnerable to the overall society because they give
rise Dowry, Society show business and harassment etc.
Incidents like below are on rise: A bank executive staring a women customer
- An educated family keeping too many societal pressures
- An educated daughter in law ill-treating the family
- An educated husband who does not incline with the working wife
And I can write more and more about these sensitive issues
which we all are well aware. With the recent case of malfunctioning of a
shelter home in Gurgaon, people have started to do charity at home.
A deed of my close relative who has adopted 4 young girls and
provided lifetime education is more worthy to me than signing a cheque of lac for a sanstha.
If you can afford then do not look beyond your HOME – Give education
to the children of your guard/driver/ office boy. They would always remember it
for lifetime and you are contributing to a very large social cause which is
affecting the Indian society.
And above all ‘Educate your kids’ – Give them exposure and
let them experience the Job or Business. Never ever restrict their education to
a level that they may never be able to think beyond what you think.
This blog is about a social cause I strongly support and has been written to dedicate it to ISB iDiya http://www.isb.edu/idiya/
