In a degraded society every
innovation will nurture manipulative space every benign effort will find its
starkest denominator. Mid-day meal was such an innovative benign scheme that
now scraps the worst of possibilities. The intention was to provide essential nutrition
to children, in a society that has rampant malnutrition, as also to prevent
school dropout. Food is a compelling incentive in poverty ridden society. India
languishes at the bottom of social indices, much lower than many poorest exploited
countries and war torn horrendous places on earth. These are not accidental, nor
is it fate as being cleverly posited. It’s an indication of much deeper malaise
of a primitive society. India also is home to amazing biodiversity that is
being wantonly exploited. It lacks caliber to be the guardian of such bountiful
legacy, to inform people, create awareness and learn about these. It is stuck
in some entitled boogey land with appropriated and plagiarized concepts coded
in sanskrit that is showcased as indication of high bearing which when meets
the reality creates hilarious irony. ‘Wildlife’ related program are mostly by
white men with repeated focus on big mammals or few reptiles, specifically crocodiles
and snakes, theatrics taken out of context from the ecosystem to gladiator
ogling. What makes it worse is anthropomorphized narrations with misogynist
intent.
Midday meal in schools is also
intended to create inclusive value system in a society that is known for its primitive
ways that originates from depraved sanctum into patriarchal family unit. It is
expected to empathize with eating habit context and care for each child’s self-belief.
If any change is suggested or if standardized norms is imposed against the
majority then it must fulfill logical scrutiny. It just cannot be based on
value system, considering that this society is too unevolved and has horrendous
past. So when Akshyapatra (a high end NGO providing midday meal for children in
govt schools in many states) imposes its value system through food habit on to
young minds it is a serious concern. These should have been handled at the
outset (this blogger pointed it out few years back) and if the NGO concerned
doesn’t change its stand then it should be blacklisted. Akshyapatra prides
itself for hygiene standards and efficiency, it is unfortunate that these
should have been handled by the State and community while an NGO preens meanwhile
cunningly imposes its dubious will. There can be debate on Non vegetarian food option, vegetarian,
indeed vegan, is quite logical evolved choice that children need to be aware of.
But we need also keep in mind the level of abject malnutrition and poverty, and
more significantly the degradation through purity of vegetarian cannibalism that
is sought to be pushed in. There is no denying that boiled eggs must be part of
midday meal scheme (handling, preparation and nutritional needs fulfills the criteria
quite well). Anyone against this is peddling sanctum scum’s value system at the
expense of life and wellbeing of common people.
The high end NGO (run by market
fed branded technocrats and purity seeking investors) nurtured by state is
playing a horrible joke on the misery of common people. The food distributed by
them doesn’t contain garlic and onion, it seems these are considered impure. I had
a peculiar incidence of IIT professor elaborating these to me in detail few
years back! Meanwhile during lunch he asked about the ingredients to the hapless
serving boy, on being told about onion and garlic he visibly winced and refused to eat. Such rudeness
(that too in the presence of people who are consuming the same food) can only be explained through uncouthness
of entitled sanctum that has severely degraded the society. That he happened to
be a teacher at IIT Delhi makes it worst, and an assertion to the primitive nature
of the society that is way too entrenched, and is being nurtured by deep state.
Obviously this buffoon’s contribution in technology can only be limiting, not
to speak of his worth as a teacher. Onion and garlic are important ingredients
of food prepared by common people in almost all home across the country. Indeed
one see many times poor people (like laborers, rickshaw pullers or in crowded
trains) eating roti with raw onions. Onion is ubiquitous with Indian food
preparation and as a salad is the first thing offered in lower end hotels. The price of onion is even manipulated to decide the fate of elections. So to
classify onion and garlic as impure and not worth to be consumed is seriously problematic. And understanding the context of this primitive society it is no doubt a crime. It also is
meant to degrade the mindset of children of poorer, marginal and exploited
sections (the target of spreading purity in the garb of hygienic food) in a
society that is tenuously hinged to any egalitarian value system or humanistic considerations.
If children are being fed, or even hinted, with the notion that what they eat
at home is impure (one can initiate reducing meat diet or vegan as ethical personal
choice and the logics at work), or that it lacks, it is an attempt at dehumanizing
the child from his/her nurturing space, loved ones and is indeed blocking the empathetic
value system. It is a sinister attempt at not only isolating the child from the
surrounding but also poisoning his/her reasoning faculty and mindset (that is
meant to be inquisitive, accommodative and open to learn) while entrenching into
dubious value system that can only degrade and spread misery. As it is the mediocres
nurtured by casteist feudal uncouth deep state has put english into primacy,
and with it syllabus that rarely reflects the surrounding hence amazing level
of mediocrity that seeks education to sniff money as final outcome of blessing.
AkshayaPatra has no business to
serve food to children under midday meal scheme. They can set up their purity
shop somewhere else to earn punya. There is no reason why AkshyaPatra should
not be blacklisted.
