There is a big slum in Bhopal city on the left south side of the North TT Nagar. The richness of new market and whole north TT Nagar hides it so that generally, a person, roaming in Bhopal will just ignore it.
Nothing new, every new or old city has such slums and unknown illegal colonies.
There are Hindus living there amalgamated with Muslims and Christians. In addition, Sikhs to a little number lives there.
It is illegal; as I do not think, anyone planned and sanctioned maps for the construction.
Many of them are huts and shambles of some bricks.
Dominique Lapierre (the author of City Of Joy) might have found joy there also. In addition, who knows what the definition of joy is?
There lives some labors some house cleaners and workers, some auto rickshaw drivers, some small shopkeepers, some beggars and some scum and garbage collectors.
It is like a small village out there. In addition, it is not the only slum in Bhopal.
It is true that people needs them, otherwise who will work for the tasks they performs?
We always talks that a person must rise if He/She has potential.
If some rich one does not have the potential and real deserving ability, must not he graciously go down to do those minion works. More ever, is any work can be termed as minion?
On the other hand, the rich one who by chance or by default is rich never takes the plunge to the right spot where he/she must be. Instead, he starts talking of communism and equality. He starts trying to be messiah and awareness provider.
How many who goes to schools and colleges and universities actually deserves it?
Does not they just ruins the resources because neither they wishes to learn and research further to increase the knowledge and develop and create, nor they respects the resources which they got by default.
Anyways, I do not want to criticize anybody.
Some able and aware people reached that slum and started a school during their free times after their jobs. They were no social organization; they were just the boys and girls who played with the people of that slum during their childhood.
There is nothing great in what they tried to do and there is nothing wrong too.
It is there free time and they decide how to use it and enjoy it.
In addition, one of them was I the poor little girl with her debauched mind and arrogant attitude. I liked the idea, to provide a sort of resource to one who is able to use it if I may get even one there.
Therefore, I started visiting there at weekends, providing some books and some basic needs plus a sort of knowledge, which I could.
There I met a girl of 9 years; I do not know her name. All calls her “kallo”.
She was always active and enthusiastic. She was able to understand algebra so easily without any extra effort. I know how difficult it was for my own cousin sister to understand that if -2 added to +2 it becomes zero. Ohh well, my cousin was never so good in mathematics and she always evades it but she is genius in microbiology now. Everyone has her/his pint.
Therefore, I was enthusiastic towards “kallo”. Some five times I met her, gave some books some pencils some copies, taught her some.
Yesterday when I occasionally visited there, I found that she no more visits to that so-called evening school.
The reason was simple. Her grandmother (she is an orphan and lives with her grandparents who work at nearby rich colonies) wanted her to teach housework and earn some hard money.
I simply could not grasp it. I went there to talk to her grandmother; I wanted her to visit school, to learn to study to make her something, which she can.
Her grandmother told me that it is not for her to learn. She said she wants to let her study but people say things. What will she do by learning? It will spoil her. Who will marry her if she will not learn the work? I thought of slapping her. However, she was right. She lives in a place where one’s own self is not for decide what to do, but the one’s own self is to study what others wants her to do. She so selflessly lives there. Looking for what other will think. And how will be the future. If the girl got educated, who will marry her? People will say she knows nothing about the work and she learned “TRIYACHARITAR” and kept roaming here and there. Those were her words. And she is the guardian of my sweet love “kallo”. May be she will work there for her granny until she will be 16 and then her granny will marry her to someone who will again make her to work. i know she will remain am earning woman always.
I personally talked to her. I told her she must leave her granny and come to me, live with me I will teach her I will take care of her. However, she was very enthusiastic about her new work as she got a dress (an old tattered used up frock from her employer) she told me they gave her orange juice to drink and she will be getting Rs250/- per month from there. Ahh, she is almost 10 and is earning. Who says money is not important?
That girl is killing her very own self for some money. She is not selfish she just does not knows her self and do not want to safeguard it.
I cannot fight with her guardians too. She has two elder brothers also who also works. The fun is, her granny insist those boys two go to the government school and study and hence get the government job later which their father was appointed to. Nevertheless, they do not likes to go to school, they bunks and plays and steals and enjoys and yes works too.
I found no way to inspire her. I gave up with a decision to not to go back there ever.
I wanted her granny or herself to bind me to take her custody, to insist me to educate her to keep her at my house. I might have given her granny the money she thinks she could have earned.
However, when they themselves do not want to rise, why should I ruffle there freedom?
Therefore, I came back. Thinking and wishing that some day “kallo will visit me and ask me to help her. To help her because, she wants to and she deserves the help too.

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I have spoken words’
That I thought,
Would never cross my lips.
Despite my inhibitions’
They spill out my mouth,
And leave me bare.

Emotions caress my mind,
That had been locked,
Up so deep inside.
I had forgotten’
Where they were,
They leave me trembling.

All the darkness’
That surrounds me,
Is fading away.
And I am awash’
In the pale light,
That leaves me free.
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Staring from the darkness’
The bright light in her eyes,
As she walks past the barrier.
She is stripped of her disguise’
Shimmering light shines on her,
Creating color every where.
The breeze swirls gently through’
Her chestnut locks of hair,
Her eyes of green tear up.
At the beauty through which she walks’
The darkness can no longer hold her,
No matter how or where it stalks.
She raises her arms up high’
And the light she does embrace,
She is full of mystery.
A secret smile upon her face’
For she is innocence,
And hope that shines in light.
Healed as she walks through shadows’
And emerges from the night!
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It is the first part of Ayn Rand’s first television interview, in which she encapsulated the essence of Objectivism. In this first part, she discusses the post conformist Morality, emphasizing the Individual’s right to live for his happiness, that a Man is an end in himself and has a right to live for his own rational self-interest.
What is rational self-interest?
Rational self-interest is the basic premise, that every man has freedom to use his mind for his own benefits. He has capability to choose for himself and to decide for his development, that he is not a sacrificial animal to live for others benefits, nor he can force others to live for his sake. That a Man lives, by virtue of his mind, and enjoy his own earned rights and happiness with self-esteem.
“Self-Sacrifice is Evil.” Self-sacrifice is the precept that man needs to serve others in order to justify his existence that his moral duty is to serve others.
The reasonable concept of love arises from the base of virtues. The virtues a man acquires in his character by applying the reason for an Independent, Honest living.
One cannot love anyone because of pity. If one loves, a person, it means that, he considers that person as worthy, worthy of his love. That worth does not comes merely from the materialistic possession of that person, but that worth is dependent on the vital principles, a Man holds for his life.
One cannot love a rapist, a criminal, a terrorist. Only a crook may love a crook. A corrupt person only can love the corrupt.
One loves people not for what they do for him, or what he did for them, but he should love people for the virtues and values the other person have achieved in their own character.

In this second part, Ayn Rand clearly strengthen the Democracy.
She clearly states that although there’s nothing wrong in Democracy, but majority should be prevailed only in public or political processes, and Democracy must be limited, by inalienable Individual Rights. Majority cannot vote a Man’s life, or property or freedom away from him. If a Majority votes for an issue, that doesn’t means that issue is right. Majority doesn’t make it right. Reason decides it righteousness. Democratic process must be held by voluntary concerns, voluntary co-operation of a man, unforced. That government must have no right to initiate force or compulsion against any citizen except a criminal. There should be no right by the government like tax. There should be separation of state and economics. Just like state and religion must remain separated, state and economics must also remain separated. Nobody, neither employers nor employees should use governmental compulsion and force for their own benefits, that a laissez-faire economy, a completely free economic sector is necessity of a free-society.
She explains how collectivism trend reaches to dictatorship and economical disaster.
An example of deep-rooted Collectivism

In this part, she discusses her own life.
She explains that how helping someone also, is a rational action, if it is not sacrifice, if it is intended with rational self-interest and selfish happiness.
She further explains how and why, monopoly is impossible in a laissez-faire economy and that is why, it is best economic system. A free economy will NOT break-down. All depressions are caused by Government interference.
For the two thousand years, the world has been dominated by other philosophies and moralities based on altruism. Look around, consider the results.

A TRIBUTE TO AYN RAND

“I work for nothing but my own profit—which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. I do not produce it for their benefit at the expense of mine, and they not buy it for my benefit at the expense of theirs. I do not sacrifice my interest to them, nor do they sacrifice their interests to me. We deal as equals by mutual consent to mutual advantage and I am proud of every penny I have earned in this manner.” (Atlas Shrugged)
On April 30th (yesterday), House of Lords ruled in favor of overseas doctors against British Government, suggesting that the discrimination against foreign employee in health services of UK is wrong and should be curbed out.
In 2006, British government ordered the hospital trusts whole round UK to employ non-EU medical practitioners “only if” no candidate from EU is vacant.
Obviously, the rule was derogatory to the standards of freedom of the employer.
The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) challenged against it in court and the House of Lords favored the Indian employees.
It is expected that now, UK government will treat the foreign origin doctors, specially the Indians on fair and equal terms on the foundation of skills and merit for the jobs at National Health services of UK.
As a matter of fact, discrimination on any grounds for jobs is illegal and immoral and is against the freedom of the employer and the immigrant in the quest for employment.
Let us consider a scenario in India. There is a job for which there are two contenders and you have to employ one of them.
One of them is a hard-working, brilliant and motivated. He has endeavored allot to acquire high education and skills which are requisite of the job. His mark sheets are excellent with top grades; his previous record shows that he is honest and trustworthy worker with high admirations from his previous employers. Above all that, he came to India from a far nation (say Nigeria, or Kuwait, or Bangladesh, or say Pakistan to set-up in a new culture risking allot just to pursue a career he wishes to work for and gain a better life.
Other person has mainly no skills for the job and he expects training for it, he is not a good learner his mark sheets show it. He is just an average worker with no knowledge about the work you are going to offer.
Which candidate would you appoint for the job?
I would employ the first one because he will be more fruitful for me. It would be a decision of justice, a deserving incentive for the one who has worked hard to gain proficiency and improvement.
There won’t come any discrimination on grounds of nationality or ethnicity or religion, there should not be.
Now, if the Indian government says that you cannot appoint the first employee because he is not Indian and no matters the second employee is lacking skills and ability, he must be appointed because he is Indian, won’t it be injustice against you?
Injustice because it will be against your right of freedom to chose the best worker for your benefits. You do not do business for the nation; you do business for your own profits and improvement. It would be Injustice against that employee too who clearly deserves the job.
Being an Indian doesn’t make him any better nor provides any right for the job which he simply cannot do better.
Now, some will say, being the employer, I must train the Indian employee who is skill less so that he may also become fruitful, but I should not employ the first one just because of the duties towards the nation.
The question is, why should I waste my efforts, energy, resources and money to train an unskillful person while I denounce the skillful person who will surely be much more profitable for me?
On the same grounds of argument, The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) won against the UK Government and got the decision of House of Lords in their favor.
Each individual has rights as an individual, not as a member of this country or that nation. One has rights not by virtue of being an Indian, but by virtue of being human.
There is no immorality if a person come far away from his home to work here in India, nor there any wrong if does an employer appoint him for the job on the basis of his skills and honesty.
There can be no good in any policy which discriminates a person from other on any grounds like religion or ethnicity or caste or region or nationality or gender etc.
A person gets the right for a job not by virtue of his birth in a particular area or nation or family, but by virtue of his skills, he earns that right.
So, none of such discriminatory laws can be justified.
Obviously, the win of BAPIO against the UK government is a moment of enjoyment for the victory of Individualism and Objective premises of living.
But, in our own country, in our own land, how much objective and justified we are?
We discriminates, we discriminates and opposes others earned rights on the grounds of caste, religion, region and language.
We are suffering from ills of quotas and reservation on grounds of caste and religion. We attack each other on grounds of regional discriminations. It is Injustice against Individual liberty of the employers and the skillful employee. And it is wrong. There can be no justified ground for any sort of discrimination on grounds of caste, religion, region, language, color, gender, nation…
The reservation policies of government are corrupt and injustice against the Individual liberty and must be culled, because we don’t work for nation, we work for our own life.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Recently, a well-established Bank of America (BB&T) donated a lavish amount of more than $30 millions to 27 universities, along with the University of North Carolina Charlotte, for the approval that “Atlas Shrugged” would become vital reading for students, BB&T agreed to donate $2 million to the University of Texas at Austin to construct a chair in Objectivism’.
The question arises that what is that in the book Atlas Shrugged, which the bank want the new generation students of America to read and understand, and is there anything in that book which makes it important to be read by the new generation of India too?
India is a mixed economy which is just beginning to liberate, just recently in 1991-1992 India started liberalization of economy, it prospers to the scope that capitalism is permitted to flourish and fails to the degree that socialism deteriorates it.
It is a known fact that Capitalism and Laissez-Faire System is the only moral system for Market, because of the reason that it is the system based on the security of individual rights. It is not the system of centrally-dictated money, or destructive regulations from SEBI or RBI, nor welfare and socialized medicine, nor subsidized water, education, food, or grains, nor bailouts of mortgage lenders or borrowers. It is a system embedded in the reasonable individual rights, freedom, and the personal accountability innate in both. Ayn Rand was the first person to identify the moral basis of capitalism, and to let India out of the morass and quagmire of altruism-collectivism-communism-socialism, we need her ideas more desperately than Americans.Rand is about taking absolute responsibility for everything in your life with or without fault. As a matter of fact, Ayn Rand’s ideas are nothing different than the basic Indian philosophy of Dharma, Karma, Yoga and Bhoga.
Every Individual is free to choose the rational ethical lines and ways (Dharma) for his life, once an individual determines his ethical values and way of living by his own with complete freedom in absence of any peer pressure, he is expected to devote his life on his own chosen ethical rational lines and act accordingly (Karma). His actions will be judged by the reason and will summation (Yoga) as result. Whatever will be the result of his endeavors based on his own chosen ethical rational lines will have to be accepted by him either as the happiness for his success or sorrow for his loss or satisfaction for his efforts, he cannot escape from the result of his own chosen actions (Bhoga). Ayn Rand raised the rational egoism and disparaged the greed and assumption of the people who tries to maneuver the system for their own profit through the machinery of the government instead of letting money flow aptly to those who produced it.
Her books are simple treaties of rational ethics and morality which thoroughly invalidates the nit-pickers, whiners, complainers and losers who don’t put their back into it and rather try to mooch people through wealth redistribution. .
Her egoism is based on the principle of “rational self-interest” which promotes the confidence of an individual in his own self and helps him in making rational decisions and moving forward with determination, not looking for others to decide for him or judge him.
Ayn Rand provides an outstandingly moral defense of capitalism that one can’t find anywhere else. By “Rational Selfishness” she means that your center of attention must be on what you know you can do for what you can accomplish on your chosen rational line…for the advantage of your own aims, applying creativity and generating opulence for your own self and all others you impact and engage. Theft of Sprit and subjugation of Individualism has created a cohort of people who are asking “what’s in it for me” rather than asking “what can I accomplish for me”.
Objectivism is the tone of voice of the post-confirmative morality and counter-culture. It brings in a new set of ethical principles to shield Individualism, freedom and Capitalism that is embedded in reality, neither praying to mystical gods in heaven nor the peers and neighbors next door, but to the Individual’s own innate nature as a being who lives by his rational faculty (MIND) and the things it can produce using it. Ayn Rand’s books give an absolutely innovative mental picture of what a proper man and apposite rational life should look like. This is the reason why it is more enjoyed as a philosophy, and not merely a political theory. She also posits innovatory theories on aesthetics and epistemology. She is required reading for any ambitious thinker.
Those who refuse Objectivism but endeavor to be defenders of Capitalism will ultimately fall back on the ethical battle-ground and that is prevalent all around these days.
Objectivism is a philosophy with the purpose of rejecting the fake alternatives of the past and challenges an Individual to question the fundamental values and virtues by which he should guide his life. Objectivism is neither theistic nor relativist or subjectivist. It is neither liberal nor conservative. It advances life in a brand new way.
Ayn Rand never advocated hedonism; she propounded a principled, ethical, rational existence suitable to an Individual. There can be no compromise on Rational Vital principles Atlas Shrugged has a simple philosophy that is easily summed up. It is to fight irrationality. The Idea of Atlas Shrugged is not, “Greed is good,” but that “Sloth and entitlement are bad.” The book clearly present that it is easier for elected administrative governments to prevail and persist under the guise of Robin Hood serving to “benfit” a population of envious unskillful voters. That’s what is happening in India, and should be opposed.
The intention is not that greed is good, but that welfare is a fatally degrading insult to the Individual spirit“Man’s ego is the fountain head of human progress.” Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Reading and understanding Ayn Rand’s work possibly will be fairly constructive today in a society that promotes and forces conformity, from infancy and keeps indoctrinating Individuals. Being an individualist, who is ready to go against the dogmatic establishment, has advanced every field and form of art, science and technology which according to me, is the right meaning of progress.
I will certainly recommend each and every student whole round the world to read each and every book of Ayn Rand by himself. But to force it as compulsory course at graduation levels won’t be right, let the students decide for it. Yet, her books should be promoted at High School and senior secondary school levels in India also.
I keep promoting her books in my new generation friends’ lol.