“Disguised Development”

In reference to Uttrakhand.. 

The whole world around is walking on the path of development as some wants to walk upon it and some are compelled as others are doing the same. Everyone have joined the marathon of development as there is been very effective promotion all around but only very few knows the real meaning of this product and rest are just following the trend.

Recently, I visited my native state Uttrakhand to have some peaceful days in the lap of nature but all in vain as my mind couldn’t stay calm and abandoned me in the lake of questions and predicament. I stayed in my maternal Uncle’s house situated in one of the quiet developed parts of the state known as “Town” there for being quiet ahead in development than the rest of the parts.

It’s true that the state is developing and people there have joined the walk but seeing my native place developing couldn’t please me, even after me myself being the believer of development. It’s not because they are adapting to any western culture that I had problem with neither they are betraying their own culture.

It’s just that they are approaching towards the right destiny but are not upon the right path in ignorance…!!

The educational platter in such developing states have grown enough heightened to compete well with the developed cities of the country which would be worth praising in your vision but I found it otherwise while peeping into it. The majority of students there secure above 80% and their parents are equally concerned towards their education but all they know is to win in the race of development and all they dream is to become a doctor or either engineer. No other dream they carry neither they are allowed to possess.

“They have taken education as a means of survival… instead of a path of learning…”

Besides this, people are adopting to western life style there but without a proper gear. They have modern houses now and live upon high standards but they ignore the requirement of proper sewage system associated with modern life style. In Uttrakhand, the state government has banned to use of plastics in a very modern manner due to which you won’t find poly bags in anyone’s hand as all the poly bags have slipped over road sides since then.

The painful situation is, in this race of decaying development, no one has time to pay even a little concern towards these measures.

“Fashion” is another subject in this process of development, as in such developing states people hastily adapt to whatever new they come across without evaluating it even once which often deserts them in absurd appearances.

Fashion is a major disaster in these states not because people are not intellectual there, it’s because they are blindly following the rest.

In the end, the most complex predicament is about the continuous desertion of their roots by the people of such states comprising Uttrakhand as I experienced it few days back. People in these states are moving away from farming as they believe it to be unworthy to stay involved in the same admist this industrializing world but in true, development never banished farming from its platter as farming has always been the roots and will always be core of development throughout the world. They are following the developed cities where people don’t pursue farming but they ignore to understand that people in these cities are reluctant to do so.

Development is about raising.. not about decaying…!!

Loves & Cares

Neha Sen