Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

We have dealt with some important vices in the U.S. in the last two posts after the Indian roundup. This is more relevant in the modern day U.S. where there as many vices as there is good stuff. The issues need to be identified , introspected, internalized and immobilized from the society without rising to alarming levels. These are particularly ugly in a society from an Indian perspective. For instance, I mentioned about domestic and external violence perpetrated by U.S. in one post. Modern Indian is built on the bedrock of peaceful freedom movement, with highest accord given to peace and non-violence. These very virtues need to be preached by India to the west in maintaining peace and order in the world. The west and U.S. in particular has a huge vacuum for peace and countries like India need to fill it. This is the meaningful exchange which needs to take place. Similarly, the healthcare is abysmal in U.S. whereas India does a lot better with discharge of affordable health...

I mentioned about the progress U.S. need to make to move ahead in the path of peace and non-violence by substituting violence in all forms. From the most recent history, it can be seen not just as an imperative but an obligation for this country to traverse in peaceful ways internally and externally. While this is an evil to suppress from raising its ugly form, let us tackle another one in this post. I had already mentioned about it earlier but need to draw our attention to it time and again due to its enormity. It is the colossal problem of the health care system in U.S. Like the disparaging gun violence which has become a common theme in U.S., we have also arrived at this state of affairs in health care unknowingly and inadvertently . What we have arrived at is something which is a huge mammoth ballooning of a problem. The point should have never been reached. The main reason I am putting it across is I am working within the system and a beneficiary of it. Being a b...