I was talking to a young friend who was railing at Ambani's daughter wearing a dress of diamonds. I told her it did not affect me. It actually does not. It might have when i was younger.
I told her that compared to the vast undernourished majority of this land, both she and I were vastly provided for. When there is hunger somewhere, each of our indulgences is an excess. The rot begins with each of us. And leads to Ambanis.
Reforming the Ambanis extravagences is not our mandate. Our class, all of us who have over our basic needs of food and clothing, need to collectively address the criminal disparity. The Ambani scion's foolish displays cannot hurt this country. We, a vast number of educated and well off Indians, by our indifference to utter poverty are real issue.
Geeta Charusivam Partly agree with you. Those of us both with privileges, class, caste or gender should realise what life means for those without it.
But the Ambanis have not just hurt this country with their display. They have plundered it by looting natural resources, bribing governments, exploiting people all to earn their vulgar wealth. They are pure evil.
But the Ambanis have not just hurt this country with their display. They have plundered it by looting natural resources, bribing governments, exploiting people all to earn their vulgar wealth. They are pure evil.
Aparna Krishnan Do we use the products of Ambanis, or Ambani clones ? The Ambanis exist because of you and me. Period.
Geeta Charusivam Ambanis don't exist because of us. A vast majority of people in this country were happy buying products from PSUs. We need to look at the larger picture.....at the system that creates Ambanis and their ilk. Most businessmen in India think that deceiving people to earn a little more profit makes them clever. This idea of maximizing profit at any cost is one of the root causes for huge inequalities.
Aparna Krishnan I see the root cause in our choices as a community and as individuals. Gandhi could help people bring down the Manchester cloth industry. We lack the spine to bring down an Ambani or a Unilever or a Union Carbide. We love to blame others like Ambani - he is irrelevent to my scheme of thinking.
Aflatoon Afloo अम्बानी की लड़की के हीरे के लिबास को देख कर आप पर असर नहीं हुआ।क्रोध क्यों नहीं आया?
Aparna Krishnan 1. Each of us is behind the growth of such monsters. I would rather direct my energies on me/us. If we were to stop buying their products, neither would Ambani be there, nor his daughter, nor her diamond dress 2.There are exterme perversions, and I would rather look at the wider and more systemic conditions that lead to the extreme disparities. 3. I see gowns advertized for 20,000/- and 50,000/-. So its a larger malaise and to waste energies on the person of Ambani is rather pointless. We need to see the root of the matter.
Amarendra Srivastava Brilliantly put "We, a vast number of educated and well off Indians, by our indifference to utter poverty are real issue." Salute!
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