Heartless Intellectuals!

Gandhiji once said that the greatest problem of the country after independence is ‘Heartless Intellectuals’. Looks like he was right!

Just look at our cities today. And also look at the people who live in the cities. These are ‘educated’ people. They speak ‘English’. A language that gives them a right to boost their ‘ego’ and treat someone from the countryside with disrespect. They work all day long; they have so many machines around them, yet they do not have any time to talk to their neighbors! Then, what do they do? Do they cook all day long, or they do household chores or agriculture? What do they exactly do?

They make machines and sell machines! Machines that eventually help them to handle their daily lives. Be it travelling, cooking, mopping or talking, they have machines for everything! They have lost their touch with Mother Nature. They hardly touch grass or step on soil anymore. They have become so ‘independent’ that the only thing they are dependent on is a few pieces of paper called ‘money’. In fact, now they have devised ways to not hold even these papers; instead they now use ‘digital currency’. They can now ‘buy’ almost everything. They don’t need people around themselves, at least that is how they feel. 

And what cost have they paid for becoming so much ‘developed’. Well, they have lost their ‘hearts’. They no longer connect with human beings or ‘nature’ around them. They see everything in terms of money. If their security guard needs money for his daughter’s wedding, they lend it for sure, but charge ‘interest’ on the principle. They need someone to boost their ‘ego’ on constant basis, and they also need someone who can be abused to overcome frustration. They believe that littering is their human right and ‘dirty people from countryside’ should be ‘employed’ to handle their ‘garbage’. They do not hesitate to play with the laws of Nature when they pollute the environment, fields, water and soil in the name of ‘entertainment’ and ‘mass production’. 

And they also believe that the villagers need to follow their footsteps. They love to control people. They love to build systems for them. They want them to get educated just the way they did! Looks like, they want them to lose their ‘hearts’ as well.