What is development, in reality.
One of my acquaintance, who is also a social worker, once he came to me and gave me a news for publishing. The news was, " A great success in free disease treatment camp". I enquired, what does great success mean. Then he said, 5000 people attended. I then told your success would have been great if only 5 to 10 people had come ! Then it would have been a matter of great pride, but you had set up the camp and so many people came for free treatment, it means on what a scale the poverty and disease exists in the society. It is an indication of the fact that our society is much backward.
Long back I had seen a picture, in that the hero is a news channel reporter. He is interviewing a Chief Minister . At that time he asks a very difficult question to him. The chief minister gets very much distressed and says become chief minister for one day, then only you will understand how difficult it is to run the country. The hero is taken aback. But after a lot of coercion he agrees to become chief minister for one day. Hero then becomes the chief minister for one day. In that one day he performs so many good things that people start applauding him. Then when the elections come , people ask him to stand for elections and he gets elected as chief minister. After that he does something that he doesn't get even a single complaint in the complaint box. The complaint box was kept at the main junction of the city.
Whenever we think, we think again the accomplishment that has to be got done. We demand that a police station be established in the neighbourhood, so that a thief or a thief or rascal does not misbehave in the colony. But people misbehave either because they have no other work to do. Or that their morality has come down. Then the thief came, police came, then the court came and then the jail.
In a similar way people are falling sick because they do not get good food; their daily routine is not good, for them there will be the need of hospital.
Some people call it as progress, I call it as retrograde.
Now because of progress the health is deteriorating, and we think, we are progressing. Present politicians, leaders, and the government seem to be making full benefit of it.
Corona, only in Maharashtra,
Not in West Bengal