Adjudicated Parallels

There are a number of people in our society who can be termed as elitists. As and when some business or a trade flourishes, such a behaviour begins to take shape in their minds. The kind of boundaries around empathy, as to when to relate to people's emotions or give alms becomes almost redundant. As this cannot be categorized as an evil, the threat still looms large and can cause grave concerns to cohabitation. The primary cause of not giving alms to the needy or somewhat needy is a kind of elitism. This can be shown when people beg from you on the streets during traffic snarls. We kind of ask them, 'go find some work'. More so, we sneer at people when they are not belonging to our social status. There can be many such instances. But the world is made up of a number of units of society. One has to mingle with people according to these norms and become elitist themselves when the flock calls. Otherwise one risks of being the odd person out. The story being cut short: everyon...

 Being familiar to someone is a very eerie thing to everyone around. The moment one gets familiar with someone, there develops an air of frankness to say anything to the person involved: even wild things. The subtle changes and unambiguous traits to see in those who tend to be this way is in their talks or gestures. Though the exact fodder to this phenomenon is akin to a wild goose chase, some highlighted behavior gives anyone a creep. Once I had been privy to such a situation when one of the person my mother became close to had the said feeling for her. The lady was a person with a menial job to fend for and gradually grew close to her. Later, through the course of time, she took my mom for granted and demanded more goodies/freebies. The moment she ignored the woman, she felt miffed. My mom knew that she courted trouble for being nice to her. A very important thing to remember is one should follow the nuances and manners of the society they can represent. Anything that is not alon...

 Victimhood is loved by the masses. Every now and then, victims come in people's thinking through a sinister idea of minting money and they oblige. People love this to such a degree that they lavish a lot of attention. Nonetheless, the effect is so shallow in terms of praises over time. No one who loves victims never help them to the point they are hurt. But only till the next fault of theirs comes to light. I witnessed this in our neighbourhood. The neighbour was discriminately used by her relative to help her in time of distress. In this case, the distress was the performing of household chores and even caring for the newborn son. This involved also cleaning the washable diapers. Even the whole family of the victim was doing this- all her brood. People started loving her and lamenting over her plight. But the fact was that she loved doing it as a token of love for her brother. She was uneducated too. This added to her being a popular victim. But later on, an issue cropped up invo...

When we look around for many of the reasons in our society to propagate or promote something, there arises a need for a new breed of people. These can be classified as Community Observers. The more you think of the dire needs to accomplish this feat of spreading the news, more is the unabated compulsion. In another sense, these very people keep the rumour mills running; that said, it may not be a rumour, after all. There arose in me a need for such type of dissemination in my native. So, I caught up with two very popular stereotypes who would fit the bill. Both of these were given by me news about the new transformation in my life and I wanted very badly for this to reach the masses. These people slowly helped me to percolate the information to many of the families living there, in my native. More said than done, this became a phenomenon. All I did was to give them the information to spread and sit back all relaxed. The instinct in them did the talking. I could never have vouched ...

When you look at people around, there is a small amount of inspiration derived from how the ministries in the Government work. There cannot be an apt term for this set of activities and expectations for people or society or relatives or others friends. You become the ambassador of the allegiance that keeps you sworn to. For example: Imagine that there is an opportunity for you to attend your extended family's get-together. There, everyone supposes you to be the ambassador of your family. Every issue that is crept into or is related to your family members puts you in their shoes. If your family member has a fight with the extended family members or been acidic or foul-mouthed to their counterpart, there is an expectation for you to answer and manage it. This keeps you in the loop or you have to answer every query or complaint or ill feeling that the people bear as the victim of your family's member who unleashed evil. There is no room for being ill-informed or less initiate...