What
has been referred to as a shameful act by the Indian Media in Nepal has
originally revealed the face of the humanity which is advancing towards
becoming more individualistic over the coming decades as the process of
urbanization is intensifying with every passing moment and there are no clues
yet to plan those social & natural aspects while formulating urban policies
and programs by the government and the persons involved. The pet &
over-hyped project as they call it of Mr. Modi, India’s honourable Prime
Minister - smart cities can be looked as his yet another way of attracting the
masses which just seems more inspired from the likes of ‘SmartPhones’ and
‘SmartTV’ but the latter are just human creations out of his artistic mind and
the same principles of digitizing can’t be applied to the human settlements as
we aren’t the only thing this world is meant for and cities aren’t just
assembling of good quality infrastructure to provide employment and trade
facility. Focusing on economic development is good but thinking it as the end
product of human development is one of the biggest mistakes which the whole
humanity has been doing now especially after ‘The Great Depression’ of 1920’s
and 30’s as it is commonly known as.
When everything becomes economically active over the brains of human
beings, his basic empathetic characteristics are over-ridden by his individual
needs & desires and he tends to make such mistakes as made by the
media-persons in Nepal.
It’s
not the mistake of a single profession or a single person rather it’s the
outcome of the accelerated rate of advancements and developments that the
present generations of the ongoing human civilization are experiencing and they
are left in a state of confusion and ambiguity leaving them to get easily
inspired by the availability of excess of information over the web world which
they usually grasp without practically applying their brain and experiences
over it. Moreover, with the structure of
the society changing to more conserving one the situation can be seen to get
worsen over the coming decades if proper social and natural planning isn’t
carried out by India. Governments are formed to look after the system of human
settlements with a vision and not just to beautify them without the understanding
of its inter-dependent nature.
India
is at crucial junction of writing its urban history with a major portion yet to
plan over the coming years. What our future generations will read and think
about us will be defined in these coming years. Therefore rather than playing
with them for any type of individual or group gains, the government should
focus on increasing the capabilities of its population not just in terms of
money and finances - there are other significant aspects as well like social
security, relaxing with nature and the end product which the government should focus
should be to provide its citizens a happy, healthy and prosperous environment.
It can’t be done by virtue of isolation planning approach which is generally
seen by Indian mode of development. The planning would have to be carried out
considering the entire system as one single thing which looks quite complex to
understand and plan for, but it’s not a thing which can’t be worked out for
formulating rejuvenated indigenous approach for planning balanced and efficient
human settlements if the concerned nationals are really concerned about
building a better future for the country. The planning has to be made far more
visionary if India has to build its sustainable and smart human settlements of
the future.
Events
like that in Nepal should be seen as an eye opener and nature’s signal rather
than concentrating on blaming a section or group of people. Like in this case,
the media persons involved aren’t aliens or from any other planet – their
mindset is the reflection of the society as a whole in general and people
should understand before making comments over such things that they are also
part of it and they can only bring in the change in their society by
participating in constructive things. Our collective attitude should be
positive and achieving progress and development will be a lot easier than. And
media being a group of people which are considered to be human beings with more
wisdom and humanity than ‘aam aadmi’ (as its trending for some years now),
should better learn the subjects of humanity and ethics before even thinking of
becoming a journalist or any media person. We all should remember it at least
one time a day that we are human beings first than being anything else in this
world and shall act accordingly. Being hopeful for some more positive changes
as some are already under process.
Note - This article was written after trending topics like #GoBackIndiaMedia and others which created a lot of buzz around the Globe.
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