Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

But have you ever thought of the many children/youth who would be better off, if they could sit maybe even atleast at the back corner of our class? They could then utilize such an opportunity to stop working so hard for a bowl of rice and start thinking about the world and our purpose in it.




Now, this may sound bizarre or lifeless, but if such an opportunity is given to them, then there is a huge number of possible ways for them to move forward. then they have the choice,
from which course to take to which not to,
from what faith to believe in to what not to,
from which music to hear to which not to.
and they can have the choice of anything about what to follow in life to what not to.


Since we already have such choices, most of us don't care what goes on in the hearts of these people (and sometimes because we haven't met any), because we haven't realized

• what it is to feel that there are people younger than us who can read and write, and we can't.
• we haven't realized what it is to know one of the main sources of passing knowledge is through written methods and we cant have access to it.
• we can't even imagine what it is to have a day without reading even a single thing somewhere on facebook or on a juice packet! 

Atleast maybe for example, when we meet such a helpless person we should remember not to scowl at him for not knowing how to write our friend's name on the birthday cake that we ordered at the local bakery, and this guy happened to be the only one present when we went for an early-pick-up of an incomplete black forest. We need to atleast smile at him, no matter in how much hurry we are in.

Oh, and ofcourse there is an exception of a few people who are illiterate yet turned out well-off, but this article was written to take a look at the illeteracy causing majority of the poverty, and not about the few people who are either spiritually blessed and knows how the world works or totally blinded leading to wickedness getting the better-off of them.

May we all find the truth.

P.S: This is a highly compressed version of the situation faced by many villages in India, and all over the World.

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