Moral Capital and social reforms: At a recent Urdu and Hindustani poetry reading circle, one young man read a poem by Javed Akhtar. Ai Ma Teresa. It touched me deeply. The poet starts off the poem with being grateful for her love and compassion and her existence and later he asks her why she did not ever ask why and how and who made the human beings she held and loved through out her life, destitute and orphans? And then he confesses why he too never asks these questions and feels afraid as asking her these questions would make him responsible for the miseries that are inflicted on millions of human beings. And he would be compelled to take some steps and that is fearful to the poet. Please read poet as reflective of human collective consciousness and not just the personal poet here! I struggle myself with this. Someone at a recent meeting of change makers in Pune used the word moral capital and I watched the internal struggle within me as to how, while I have gathered some moral capital in some areas and hence can stand my ground in those areas, in many areas I still feel afraid and fearful and inadequate. And so I prefer to remain silent and yet now I have started to express that I am silent because I cannot still leave the many privileges that my privileged life gives me. I prefer now to listen silently and watch the struggle inside me and see how honestly am I walking my Talk. Please listen to this wonderful poem youtu.be/bS8hFdRqwYE
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:43:57 +0000
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