First, sorry for the long gap between posts. I fell horribly ill and now am recovering…
I hope to post regularly, as before, from today onwards.
In the mean while, I had some time to think about what it means to be ’spiritual’ or ‘religious’ in our poor country…our economy is robust and the country is glued to the stock-markets. But the hypocrisy of the system lies in its silence in mentioning that the lot of the ordinary lies in just watching this stock market without any participation in it…yesterday Yahoo! India showed the door to about 40 employees. The Economic Times says that some of them were given less than 30m to pack up and leave. They call it the ‘economics of scale’ and tout this kind of employee insecurity as necessary for the nation’s fiscal health…how do we reconcile these great injustices and our own religious Faiths?
It is easy and convenient to read theological and religious niceties without living them.
I have uploaded two very plain videos which I shot recently… I am a very bad photographer…one shows an ordinary old man travelling by a local train at night to his job as a security guard…he was panting from exhaustion and age. The other one shows the birthday of a kid I love….but then how do I reconcile the two events?
Where does religion, God, love, and unemployment fit in? These are not separate events but jarring realities which no religion can redeem. Love demands sacrifices and God we have never seen; so where does all this leave us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_7Iw2mTUM
