Stories from the grassroots | Thoughts on development
This is a talk that i gave sometime ago at the National Teachers Conference that was organized by the Sathya Sai Group of Institutions at Muddenahalli, Karnataka. The theme of the conference was ‘Value Education’.
The talk can be heard from on Youtube on my channel at Talk on Value Education
Balu
Read my latest article in the August 2019 of Civil Society magazine at https://civilsocietyonline.com/column/village-voices/bridging-the-trust-deficit/
It is indeed amazing to see how people are constantly rushing ahead with their lives. All of them seem to be in such an undue haste. Very few actually stop, take a pause and ask themselves why they are in such a undue hurry. It seems as though man is engaged in a race all his life. And in order to get a lot of things done, one usually ends up doing many things at the same time. In order to constantly stay at the top, we are taught from our childhood that doing many things simultaneously is a virtue
Living in Karnataka is like living in a world where each day reinforces one’s conviction in the existence of God. How else will one be able to explain the fact that the people are surviving and coping with what can be described as complete absence of state driven governance in managing the several crises that the State and citizens are facing. It is now more than a year since the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Indian National Congress came together to form the coalition government in the State. Somewhere along the way, both the parties seem to have forgotten the