On Being Distinguished

The aspiration to become a distinguished person is a virtue that inspires people to do something impossible or to do various social works which they otherwise, with certain unpleasant setbacks, might never do. In ‘On Being Distinguished’, I have tried to delineate the setbacks that social workers often experience. Read the essay here:

Generally, the poor are poor because they choose to be. Most of them enjoy themselves drinking wine, smoking, talking of politics and playing cards and scarcely opt to go to work till they have spent every last rupee on them. Anybody...........