empathy burnout is real
after all these years of understanding the people around you, trying to put yourself on their situation, putting others first before you, and now you're drained & have became indifferent. +
22 lakh dias were lit in Ayodhya on Deepotsav. If 10 ml (conservative estimate) of oil was used in each diya, 22,000 litres was used in day. A poor family of four can use litre of it for at least 15 days for food preparation. But everyone loves an extravaganza.
“Searching for a 12 year old maid in Karachi.”
A question you will commonly see in FB groups.
Little girls carrying Louis Vuitton bags dragging their feet in chapals too big for them behind fancy madams and their spoiled children.
A sight you will often see in Lahore. (1/6)
When a leader asks people to be "identified by their clothes", when minsters take pride in "goli maaro" slogans, when MPs dehumanise fellow citizens as "puncturewallas" & 'news' channels & whatsapp groups serve daily diet of hate & bigotry, you get Jaipur-Mumbai train firing.
If you're raising young boys in urban, English-speaking India, please listen to them carefully and see where they're getting their ideas of manhood from. *Listen* to them.
My son was talking to a couple of girls during his school picnic and one guy walked across and said +
When horrific incidents occur make no mistake, through the system, our leaders are IMMEDIATELY aware. When months later videos go viral, twitter is aware. If leaders only then respond, it’s to twitter, not horrific incidents. They care about online outrage, not real people.
This guy was Sara Ali Khans classmate in Dhirubhai Ambani School yet claims to be from humble background. His father is one of the successful medical professionals of Mumbai. Yet, manages to make youngsters believe in his made up stories.
Beware!