For those of you who are more inclined towards social media e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc., especially if you have experience in the third sector or education in this direction, please feel free to send me advice that you think might be useful for the author! All ideas will be put uploaded on this blog for comments from the public, and if possible, structured over time to get handed as a suggestion to Nonprofitorgs for their perusal.
To start the ball rolling, social media impact generally tends to travel faster, and rides on emotionality, making it extremely viral. However, whatever is viral tends to die off quicker too, given that there are an infinite amount of information in cyberspace at any point in time. Impact-wise, there is still much debate on who has a stronger impact, with most people divided on credibility vs. publicity.
Nearly all the communities in India (such as Bengali), are succumbed in 'Culture of Poverty'(a theory introduced by an American anthropologist Oscar Lewis), irrespective of class or economic strata, lives in pavement or apartment. Nobody is at all ashamed of the deep-rooted corruption, decaying general quality of life, worst Politico-administrative system, weak mother language, continuous absorption of common space (mental as well as physical, both). We are becoming parents (mindlessly) only by blindfold self-procreation, simply depriving their (the children) fundamental rights of a decent, caring society, fearless & dignified living. Do not ever look for any other positive alternative behaviour (values) to perform human way of parenthood, i.e. deliberately co-parenting of those children those are born out of ignorance, real poverty. All of us are being driven only by the very animal instinct. If the Bengali people ever be able to bring that genuine freedom (from vicious cycle of 'poverty') in their own life/attitude, start/involve themselves in 'Production of Space’(Henri Lefebvre), at least, initiate a movement, by heart, decent Politics will definitely come up.
ReplyDelete- Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, 16/4, Girish Banerjee lane, Howrah-711101, India.