THE PAGES OF OUR HISTORY BOOK IS STREWN WITH BLOOD

You might be sitting in a beach enjoying the breeze on your vocation and thinking, this world is the most beautiful place in the universe. But when you turn back the pages of your history book, you can see nothing but, war, blood, sacrifice, holocaust and discrimination based on race, color, caste, creed and sex. Though this might sound a little gloomy, unfortunately most of the pages in my history book contain these words.

Do you know that when a new born baby hears another baby cry, its heart beat increases and its intensity of crying decreases? This clearly is a sign of empathy and this clearly proves that all the men and the women in this world have a predisposition towards a feeling of empathy for its peers (other human beings) in the world. Then how come there were two world wars?

The basic reason behind all these incidents is nothing but being obsessive about material accumulation. Everyone in this world thinks that having a car, lots of money, a luxurious house with a swimming pool, partying everyday night, spending extravagantly on something is, life. This misconception about life has cost many human lives and sadly this material obsession will never end till the last human being in this world dies and the dominant part of the society will oppress the weaker section, this is the curse of having that “SIXTH SENSE”, which fortunately no other animal in this planet possess.

GOOGLE VERSUS CHINA

Last week Google confronted China openly and declared that the company is going to shut down its operations in China . This step taken by Google, not only shocked the whole world but also confused everyone across the globe. A few years back Google agreed to the Chinese government that it would censor its search results and abide by the local rule of the land. As you might know, everything in this world has a threshold for tolerance and Google overshot its tolerance last week. Critics say that this decision by Google is not going to affect the people in China because the local search engine, Baidu holds 70 percent of the market.

I appreciate the decision taken by Google against the bigot Chinese government. Although it might lose the most promising market in the world, it has made the public think and there is a lot of support for Google’s decision in China . Last week Google’s mail accounts were hacked by some unknown elements. This clearly is a violation of human privacy. Breaking into one’s privacy is the first step of a future autocratic government. Google has given an appropriate response to the Chinese government and now it is in the hands of the people to teach the government that, government is just an institution formed by the people to protect it and not for acting as a moral police in every walk of life.

DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH OR HUMAN DIGNITY?

China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and it is believed that it would become the supreme power in the world by 2050. The US president also made a covert reference to this fact in his speech, during his visit to China last year.

But there have been a lot of human rights violation in the country, which no one is taking notice. Last year when there was an ethnic conflict between Uyghurs and Han, the whole problem was crushed with the help of the armed police. The Chinese government has still stationed armed police men in Xinjiang as a pre-emptive measure to prevent further violence. The Chinese government dealt the whole issue from a political point of view, but it should have looked into the conflict as a social issue.

There are a lot of questions on the Chinese government’s policy on land confiscations. Recently there was news about a lady who immolated herself at the top of her residence because she was forced to leave her place, as it was required for some official purpose.

Such ghastly incidents remind us the fact that even though double digit growth is important for a country, individual dignity is above all. The Chinese government should purge all its antediluvian policies and overhaul its view about growth, because the main achievement of growth is to make an individual independent.