Friday 17 November 2017

Varalus 1000 pm, and a party bill of 10,000/-.

A friend told me that Chennai has night pubs, and youngsters spend 10,000 and 20,000 a night. Enough is enough.
Today I gave Varalu of Paalaguttapalle, Dalitwada her monthly salary of 1000/-. She teaches Eashwaramma’s orphaned grandson daily, and she gets and boils the milk, mixes Ashwagandhadhi and gives it to all the village children. Varalu is 20 years, and a single parent of a boy and 2 infant twins. He drunk husband left her. She lives in this village in the thores of drought and unemployment, and does this work sincerely for her small salary.
The obscene mindless spending and night pubs, in a country which has so many Varalus is insane. And one does not need to go to a village - one can see them on every footpath unless one of deaf and blind and dumb. And our Varalus will not pull down houses as during the French revolution. They will quietly die, shareing what they have with their hungrier neighbours – while the pub lights dassle and blind.
Utter insenstivity to an obscene inequality needs extreme measures.
I am for moral lessons and if needed i think also for moral police. I suppose this note I have written criticizing the freedom of the haves to splurge on nightlife - while Varalus are malnourished - qualifies me for being called moral police. 


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Aparna Krishnan  We are all shades of grey, and indulge differently, and hold onto our assets like limpets. Each one of us. And we need to individually and collectively address that moral weakness, in the name of the hungry and undernourished of the country. Amen.
17 November 2014 at 20:32
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Aparna Krishnan Every ill we see in others is because it is there is ourselves, and so we recognie it. That clarity came with grey hairs only.
17 November 2014 at 20:34
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Kokilashree Alangaram Aparna just now I read that Mrs Ambani wore a saree worth 40 lakhs n was going thru similar thoughts !!! I wonder if the gap will only widen as days go by ... Rich become richer poor poorer 
17 November 2014 at 21:19
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Aparna Krishnan I see myself in Mrs Ambani Koki ... the change needed in a deeper inner change in each of us. 
17 November 2014 at 21:20
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Aparna Krishnan Which is why I keep writing about the dharmam that my village people talk of. They share so spontaneously of their little, and say that is 'dharmam' ... and I feel that in that framework there may be the answers that we have lost.
17 November 2014 at 21:22
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Shyamala Sanyal Aparna Krishnan just what I want to express. Truly obscene levels of riches and insensitivity
18 November 2014 at 07:54
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Aparna Krishnan Join our gang of 'moral police' !  
18 November 2014 at 07:56Edited
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Aparna Krishnan The much maligned moral police I suspect have more to them than portrayed in the mindless media owned and directed by the mindless corporates and read and believed by the mindless consuming crowd.
18 November 2014 at 07:57
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Aparna Krishnan Ans this is how fundamentalsists are made ... A society reacts to such inanity and obscenie consumption by swinging to the other extreme. If it was told that this gap between one set of youth spending 20000 a day, and another set living on 1000 a month could only be addressed with some very strong moral and leagl laws, I for one, would vote for those laws today.
18 November 2014 at 08:26Edited
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Raghu Ananthanarayanan The fastest market in the online stores is for 'sexual wellness' products! Each spend average 10,000/-!!! Mostly women in IT.
18 November 2014 at 09:57
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Aparna Krishnan good god. what does that do ?
18 November 2014 at 10:02
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Sathish Yadav Mayon That comment is so baseless Raghu... show me the article where you got that from???
18 November 2014 at 15:18
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Sathish Yadav Mayon Aparna Krishnan This thought will paralyze the society... what one does with their personal wealth is subject to personal wisdom... we should find out why Varalu's of this country don't have wealth not question the ways of how the haves spend but how the have's got it in their pockets to spend it in the first place...
18 November 2014 at 15:23
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Aparna Krishnan Sathish Yadav, that is because we are so alienated and distanced from roots, that we give such priority to 'individualism'. My Sikh friend told be that a certain percentage is to be given to charity as per the tenets of the religion and has to be done in anonymity. Islam has similar norms. So does Hinduism. An individual has his freedom and obligations.
18 November 2014 at 15:53
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Aparna Krishnan And Varalu has less because others have more ! 'There is enough for everyone's need but not enough for everyone's greed'.
18 November 2014 at 15:53
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Aparna Krishnan And as Ruskin puts it, the value of my dollar is precisely because that dollar is missing in another's pocket - and therefore one can claim a certain produce or labour forn that have-not.
18 November 2014 at 15:55
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Ram Mohan Ironically and rather unfortunately, this segment is untouched by the fruits of feminism. Hardly anything to empower them, educate them and make them economically independent by the govt. and society, alike. The laws to protect women do not apply for them, either, since rarely would the cops or a lawyer have any sympathy for them. That's the sad truth of the so-called campaigns for women emancipation and gender equality.
19 November 2014 at 13:03
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Aparna Krishnan i have not see gender as an issue. the women are vocal and articulate. the division of work is reasonable. drinking, and abuse of families by drunken men is a problem. but otherwise men help in cooking, bringing water - more than in many city homes.
19 November 2014 at 13:06
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Aparna Krishnan the problem is poverty, lack of livlihoods. and were that to be addressed, i do not think they need the help of feminists at all.
19 November 2014 at 13:07
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Ram Mohan Agreed, my comment was more about the aggressive campaigns for women empowerment/emancipation in circulation currently. Why must women from the lower working class be left out?
19 November 2014 at 13:11
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Aparna Krishnan i do not understand them much. i only know my village closely.
19 November 2014 at 13:59
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Ram Mohan You'll find plenty of them living in city slums all over India, so I don't think the problem is restricted to villages. In fact, half the women who do menial household work in urban homes would match this description.
19 November 2014 at 20:44
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Aparna Krishnan slums are far worse. a village is more of a community, and there are support systems and some corrections.
19 November 2014 at 20:46
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Aparna Krishnan most families are stable. it is where the man is into drinking - 2 cases in our village, that the family suffers.
19 November 2014 at 20:47
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Aparna Krishnan lack of livlihoods and ensueing poverty is to be the biggest problem.
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