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Dear Friends,
I am starting this thread mainly to overcome the problem of the present poor and downtrodden people belonging to all religions, languages and off course castes. They are struggling for day to day living and they don’t have any clue as to how to overcome their present problems.
They are exploited by politicians belonging to all political parties as a vote bank
They are exploited by their own caste leaders for their own narrow ends.
They are exploited by foreign religions to implement their agenda.
According to World Bank Study 42 percent of the people are living with income below US 1.25 $ per day in India.
Poverty threshold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please read the following sentences in the above link
“India's official poverty level, on the other hand, is split according to rural vs. urban thresholds. For urban dwellers, the poverty line is defined as living on less than 538.60 rupees (approximately USD $12) per month, whereas for rural dwellers, it is defined as living on less than 356.35 rupees per month (approximately USD $7.50).[10] By this measure, only 27.5% of Indians live in poverty,[citation needed] whereas by the World Bank standard of $1.25 per day, 42% of Indians live in poverty[citation needed] - this is the third highest rate in South Asia after Bangladesh and Bhutan”
Since literacy level is very low among the above, they can be instigated very easily by those who want to exploit them. In the last six decades plus (after independence), they have been successfully instigated by vested interests to achieve their own agenda.
In the neighboring Kerala it was a class struggle between two national parties. In a class struggle, entire people are winners at the end of the day if they get economic prosperity and there are no losers.
In Tamilnadu it is a caste struggle involving two regional parties. Since caste is eternal and could not be erased, the struggle will go on for ever and there may be winners as well as losers at the end of every round.
Our community people in Tamilnadu have withdrawn from the battle without any collective decision, but individually started looking after their interests. Personally my family vacated village during my generation and my children are now vacating India itself. In spite of all the reservation problems in education and employment, we manage to survive and also prosper. But society at large continues to struggle and virtually doesn’t have any clue to get out of the present mess.
Personally I have spent my whole life within Tamilnadu and successfully managed both class struggle and caste struggle. Class struggle in the sense agricultural land ceiling laws and caste struggle means reservations. Even my children have practically overcome the reservation problems and have moved outside the country. I am also on the verge of my retirement. Since I am self employed, retirement seems to be a day dream with none of my children joining my business. God only knows when I will get some rest. I am not bothered about it and would like to work continuously as long as possible.
But both necessity and desire for money has come down drastically and only social work satisfy me more than the regular business.
There may be others like me in this forum who have similar objectives. There are quite a lot of youngsters and middle aged people in our forum wanting to do some thing to the society at large.
Why not we collectively pool all our energies and do some thing for the society. When I say society, it includes all poor and down trodden people mentioned above irrespective of religion, caste, language etc.
Let us try to unite all such people and try to help them to come up in the ladder. Please don’t bother about money as it could be raised from various sources out side this forum. But all of us may have to spend some time for the cause.
Please think over and express your views so that we can evolve a strategy to take it forward.
All the best
I am starting this thread mainly to overcome the problem of the present poor and downtrodden people belonging to all religions, languages and off course castes. They are struggling for day to day living and they don’t have any clue as to how to overcome their present problems.
They are exploited by politicians belonging to all political parties as a vote bank
They are exploited by their own caste leaders for their own narrow ends.
They are exploited by foreign religions to implement their agenda.
According to World Bank Study 42 percent of the people are living with income below US 1.25 $ per day in India.
Poverty threshold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Please read the following sentences in the above link
“India's official poverty level, on the other hand, is split according to rural vs. urban thresholds. For urban dwellers, the poverty line is defined as living on less than 538.60 rupees (approximately USD $12) per month, whereas for rural dwellers, it is defined as living on less than 356.35 rupees per month (approximately USD $7.50).[10] By this measure, only 27.5% of Indians live in poverty,[citation needed] whereas by the World Bank standard of $1.25 per day, 42% of Indians live in poverty[citation needed] - this is the third highest rate in South Asia after Bangladesh and Bhutan”
Since literacy level is very low among the above, they can be instigated very easily by those who want to exploit them. In the last six decades plus (after independence), they have been successfully instigated by vested interests to achieve their own agenda.
In the neighboring Kerala it was a class struggle between two national parties. In a class struggle, entire people are winners at the end of the day if they get economic prosperity and there are no losers.
In Tamilnadu it is a caste struggle involving two regional parties. Since caste is eternal and could not be erased, the struggle will go on for ever and there may be winners as well as losers at the end of every round.
Our community people in Tamilnadu have withdrawn from the battle without any collective decision, but individually started looking after their interests. Personally my family vacated village during my generation and my children are now vacating India itself. In spite of all the reservation problems in education and employment, we manage to survive and also prosper. But society at large continues to struggle and virtually doesn’t have any clue to get out of the present mess.
Personally I have spent my whole life within Tamilnadu and successfully managed both class struggle and caste struggle. Class struggle in the sense agricultural land ceiling laws and caste struggle means reservations. Even my children have practically overcome the reservation problems and have moved outside the country. I am also on the verge of my retirement. Since I am self employed, retirement seems to be a day dream with none of my children joining my business. God only knows when I will get some rest. I am not bothered about it and would like to work continuously as long as possible.
But both necessity and desire for money has come down drastically and only social work satisfy me more than the regular business.
There may be others like me in this forum who have similar objectives. There are quite a lot of youngsters and middle aged people in our forum wanting to do some thing to the society at large.
Why not we collectively pool all our energies and do some thing for the society. When I say society, it includes all poor and down trodden people mentioned above irrespective of religion, caste, language etc.
Let us try to unite all such people and try to help them to come up in the ladder. Please don’t bother about money as it could be raised from various sources out side this forum. But all of us may have to spend some time for the cause.
Please think over and express your views so that we can evolve a strategy to take it forward.
All the best
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