Lies that my childhood was full of and i want to now reject

1. The rich are bad and the poor are good.
2. If the rich and poor socialise, the poor person will automatically be good at heart.
3. If a person is poor, they deserve help/sympathy just because they are poor relative to us.

This third one became clear when i did field work. We dont feel poor in our matchbox houses. When I lived in a house in what is now euphemistically called a lower middle class colony (read: Poor) , i didnt feel "poor"

Also, in doing field work, I started to ask a question again and again - why is someone poor? And the answer (unlike what Satyajit Ray and Yashpal would like you to believe) was not always 'circumstances'.

Of red ants and black ants

I do want to name and shame the misogynists, the traffic violaters, the above the law citizens. I really do. But then I look around and find, that there are just too many of them. Like red ants, too many of them, and each one bites.
And then I think some more.. this is true of the human species - they are inherently destructive and incredibly creative. There are red ants and black ants. The black ants are the ones that work together. They create things because they are inherently creators. In Indian houses, the black ant is considered auspicious.
The red ants are the ones with hierarchy, with internal competition all the time, the ones who will bite without reason. Even when they work together, the glue holding them together is their individual selfishness - their need to get to an objective that they cannot reach alone. In Indian houses, the red ant is a harbinger of bad luck and to be rid of immediately.


Each of us has the choice - to be a red ant, or a black ant. And an inherent desire - to hurt, or to help.
In nature, mutations are rare. But for humans, it is possible to go from being a red ant to a black ant, or vice versa.


What kind of ant are you?