Bogus Development
DEVELOPMENT
When we talk about development what are we exactly referring to? Lately this thought has been knocking the door of my grey cells every now and then. In literal terms development is the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced. To put it in simple terms a change for good is development and ideally it should be inclusive in nature. Which it is at least in the ‘paper policies’. Regardless I am not going to take a detour here, development is all I want to talk about.
Coming back to the main question, when we talk about development what are we actually referring to? A majority of the mass relates it to technology which is in a way correct. But linking technology to development and confining development to technology is a different kettle of fish. If developed countries (with the best technologies) are still witnessing antiquated affairs like racism, genocide and all sort of discriminations and developing countries are showing not any headway in these affairs, how are they justifying their tags?
Back then, leaders like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi used to stand against apartheid and untouchability believing that they can eradicate it from the roots like Polio. Anne Frank, a blameless little girl wrote about genocide, always ending ending every notion on a positive note. Hoping that people of the future won’t go through the same. They were foresighting the real development and not this bogus one. They were anticipating the cerebral development to be the sailor of the humanity shaped ship.
And here we are today in the 21st century, holding posters of protests. Pleading and sometimes fighting with the anonymous to forsake at times humanity and occasionally mother earth. I don’t know how to categorise these places anymore. Developed, developing and underdeveloped, these are mere representations of a country’s wealth, how astonishing the technology there is. These are the places where a person possessing the best quality smartphone attacks another person who is also possessing the best quality smartphone because they look different. These are places where a group of dependable and authoritative people (may or may not be democratic) charge a massacre of another vulnerable group of people because they are who they are.
I want to talk about real development, comprehensive development and not this bogus development. It comes like a gash when people talk about satellites and superiority of a religion at the same time in the same negligent manner. Whenever I hear something like that (which I do quite often) it reminds me of an excerpt from a novel 1984 by George Orwell:
“It was not the man’s brain that was speaking, it was his larynx.” Development starts when we start thinking, realising and sympathising with others. When we say that a rocket was made and launched by a human who belongs to a particular country and his nationality, religion, caste, cult and gender has nothing to do with his/her skills. That is from where genuine development erects.