Dedications

Character and Class never had any meaning in the professional and business world; but they used to have a great importance in relationships. Unfortunately since relationships have also deteriorated and it is just money, that keeps even relationships going. Character and class will soon find its way to where honesty, ethics, integrity, and other such values have been regaled too……and that is nowhere.

Since politics is primarily business, any of the said virtues to exist in that space, is out of space. Honest man making it in life is something we used to enjoy watching in the movies or reading in novels. Unfortunately even in these mediums, it is fading as people cannot digest it anymore, so it is space wars, sci-fi, unrealistic plots like Harry Potter, Matrix, that people prefer and relate too. A relationship as pure love is no longer even in movies, as no one believes in it. It has be extramarital, fornication as shown in the Bond movies. Good making it anywhere is rare, and we all wish it was the other way around, as it was projected in movies once upon a time. Now the movies also have the bad man as the good man. Even heroes, who would never do a negative role, find the negative, positive……and so do we.

Generosity and Charity is more of a washing machine mechanism where people do it as a religious ritual to wash their guilt. Even the emotion of guilt is killed, and there is no guilt anymore. The law states innocent until proven guilty. So everyone behaves innocent of any guilt. Though in India it is the reverse, guilty unless proven innocent, so even the law ensures innocence is killed. Even religion is used as a mockery in law. Why have courts? If everyone would one would profess the truth by taking an oath over a religious book of the religion he or she is practicing, then you don’t need lawyers. Class and Character in a noble profession as law, is again a market place of trade. The lawyer would trade his integrity and character for money, to fight cases of the guilty, and prove them innocent.

Is there nobility in any profession left? Medicine, teaching and religious life, which were considered as the noblest of professions have long lost their values. Doctors trade in kidneys. Teachers more interested in conducting private tuitions or being associated with private teaching classes where the remuneration is lucrative. Atrocities conducted in the name of all religions, can at times shake faith not just in religion but also in God.

Friendship was one of the few and only strands of relationships that had hope of any values surviving. That too has snapped; as friendships are more of fill the gaps of void of nothing to do ‘so let’s hang out’. If there is something mutually beneficial so be it, otherwise you are more of Hi! and Bye, and even that is rare. The old saying of a ‘friend in need is a friend indeed’ was proven otherwise, recently by a friend of mine who went out of his way to help his friend whose father was admitted into the hospital due to a heart attack. Being close to the family without battling an eyelid and without being asked, the guy wires a big sum of money to his friend. What was shocking was after his friend’s Dad got well there was no interest shown to return the money. On the contrary his friend takes for a holiday with his family and proudly displays the pictures on social networking sites.

The relationship has now soured, the hope of getting the money remains a hope, and a lesson learnt in the process that a ‘friend in need, could be a friend in greed’.