Human Rights – A Luxury For Lesser Blessed Souls

 Winter has arrived with its majestic frost. . .Freezing cold waves are blowing in full momentum. . 

Dewy shivering days and freezing dark nights are wrapped in warm comfort of hap. . . and we allow ourself bask in the mystical feel with cup of hot steaming tea. . .

But when we look around, we find frail helpless lesser blessed souls trying to crawl behind some broken shreds and perhaps praying for the season to get over. . . the season which makes our pen sway along with rhymes, proves to be a curse for some who don’t have the privilege to enjoy the chill of winter waves with the cushion of warm comfort.

Human Rights Day is knocking at the door…World is going to observe the day on 10^th December 2020. On this very day in 1948, United Nations General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration Of Human Rights to ensure that human beings in every corner of this world should inherit and enjoy the basic human rights to survive as human beings. But its going to be more than 70 years since UNGA adopted the declaration of human rights and still these rights to live as human being in humane condition is a distant dream and a sort of luxuries for some living beings called as human in many explored and unexplored corners of the world.

It’s quite disheartening to learn that when rest of the world is exploring and experiencing digitisation on the wings of smart intelligence, there is another world in this very world itself which is devoid of even basic necessities of life like – Food Clothes and Shelter – or Roti Kapda or Makan

And this very world is not at any distant place- its right around us, beneath us, which we - the progressive people- usually tend to ignore or turn a blind eye towards them.

We can find them outside our residences; the place which we call as footpath becomes home for them; we can find them dwelling inside some large pipes or in slums; we can find them begging at traffic lights, limping and wading through traffics in a bid to make their both ends meet. We can find them peeking through the glass window of some high-profile restaurants only to get shooed away by some elites. And we can find them marching in the heat of sun or shivering with spikes of cold, looking for shelter when they face inundated with floods, and we find them as some numbers of deads in news headlines about those who could not survive the heat, rain or cold. 

Why is it so after all? Because we – the privileged group of humans are callous towards those who are less privileged.

If we talk about the efforts of our administrative authorities or governments, they do frame measures for protection of human rights of deprived humans, but those measures seldom reach the real needy as there is less awareness programme and less inspection and supervising from the authorities to ensure that the real needy get the benefits of facilities meant for them. Even if they get the benefits like home, school or hospitals, the shoddy conditions of these privileges speak volumes about the level of sincerity of government officials.

If we talk of we the people in general, there are very few among us, who try to put efforts to protect the basic rights of our fellow human beings.  Most of us never make attempts to feed the hungry ones we find around us or provide them clothes if we find them in scanty shreds. Many of us never try to provide shelter or clothing to those whom we find shivering on footpaths in cold nights? Many of us never try to protect little children whom we find begging at traffic lights?

The stark reality about us is that most of us are comfortable with these scenarios. We are too busy and engrossed in our own lives. We think that these issues are not our concern at all, these are only the responsibilities of governments or authorities concerned.

And our fourth estate, just fulfil its responsibilities by making some documentaries or high TRP news over their dilapidated conditions.

And some more elite sections among us visit Photo exhibitions displaying award winning photos which showcase shoddy conditions of these less privileged souls.

We call ourself human beings but most often we are not sensitised enough towards our fellow human beings who are deprived of basic human necessities.

Instead of relying on government or NGOs, if each among us becomes sensitized towards the society, feel responsibility towards fellow human beings and try to feed even a single hungry person, try to provide shelter and clothing to even a single deprived soul, try to help get education to even a single deprived child, there would certainly be downsizing of bar of adversity among these lesser blessed souls.

Lets we all be sensitised enough. Lets take up sustained efforts to help every human being enjoy their basic human rights to live decently and with dignity.

Let’s Put Our Consolidated Efforts To Eliminate The Dark Of Deprivation And Ignite The Light Of Sustenance.

Let’s Be Humane And Take Vows To kindle Happiness In Eyes Of Every Human Being.

Lets Help Every Human Being Celebrate Its Human Rights Every Single Day!