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Why India’s wealthy happily donate to god and govt but loathe helping needy and poor

Maybe you can post pictures of Kanaiya kumar doing charity ? Or maybe Kanaiya kumar donated money for corona ? NO ?

Well, Kanhaiya will be doing his bit. But he is not Azim Premji or the Ambani brothers to have enough money to donate. His plane flight tickets were arranged by the CPI as far as I know.

And Shehla will be doing her bit in Kashmir.
 
Well, Kanhaiya will be doing his bit. But he is not Azim Premji or the Ambani brothers to have enough money to donate. His plane flight tickets were arranged by the CPI as far as I know.

And Shehla will be doing her bit in Kashmir.

Well hurry up and post pictures of them doing their bit. What are you waiting for ?

Also why does Kanhaiya not make enough money like Ambani and do more ?
 
And Shehla will be doing her bit in Kashmir.

While you are waiting for Shehla to do more, 87 years old Khalida Begum donated her Haj money or Rs. 5 lakh to RSS led "Seva Bharati" for fighting against CoVid 19.

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https://thekashmirimages.com/2020/0...jk-donates-her-hajj-savings-to-rss-affiliate/
 
If these BJP people have really found humanitarian sentiment in themselves why don't they disband as a religious movement and join the Socialists ??

These temples you speak of, why were they not contributing to humanitarian support to the needy people of India all these 70+ years, knowing that people here die of hunger and homelessness, farmers commit suicide for silly reasons of inability to repay loans, students commit suicide, patients dying of inability to come up with hospital fees ??

New fad -

Question people and organizations risking their lives helping people,
while give a wide passe to the usual suspects who do zilch.

But then, YOU are WHO you are...little surprise eh.
 
Here you are implying China spread the virus with harmful intent.

Later on you denied having made such a suggestion.

@seven0seven correctly reported you.

Yes, Chinese CCP through their wilful negligence caused this world wide pandemic.

If the mods think having THIS OPINION on a forum is against the rules - tough luck.

You can cry all your want and try to defend but the truth is obvious to even the dead.
 
CCP must be disbanded and tried for crimes similar to what happened to Nazis.

Really, man ??

Of course, I agree that the CCP failed in ridding the people of old habits of strange dietary habits.

while give a wide passe to the usual suspects who do zilch.

And who are these who are doing zilch ??

Also why does Kanhaiya not make enough money like Ambani and do more ?

Do Socialist welfare states depend on billionaires to take care of citizens while the government itself does nothing ??
 
Do Socialist welfare states depend on billionaires to take care of citizens while the government itself does nothing ??

There re plenty of threads about what the govt. is doing.

You are just willfully dumb and blind.


https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/wuhan-coronavirus-pakistan-hindus-rss-pictures/

RSS comes to the rescue of Pakistani Hindus amidst Coronavirus lockdown.

In Odisha and Karnataka, RSS Swayamsevaks have distributed masks and have conducted awareness drives. In Madhya Pradesh, they have sanitised an entire village while in Kerala, Swayamsevaks and Seva Bharti volunteers have been assisting police and fire services in cleaning and disinfection works.

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RSS in action

The Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) has always been the frontrunners at times of natural calamities or disasters. The attitude of selfless service and nation above individual interests motivate the volunteers to step in and help local communities. Their endeavour has remained unchanged even in the wake of the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak.

At a time when migrant workers are fleeing home with no jobs, the Pakistani Hindus living in squalor in Adarsh Nagar has found a new light of hope. It is important to remember how these persecuted and marginalised group was ostracised by the left-liberal jamaat during the Anti-CAA agitation. Nonetheless, The RSS volunteers met those living as destitute in India and provided them ration.





RSS member handing out ration

Ration



Queue to collect ration
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RSS member handing out ration
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RSS member handing out ration
In Odisha and Karnataka, RSS Swayamsevaks have distributed masks and have conducted awareness drives. In Madhya Pradesh, they have sanitised an entire village while in Kerala, Swayamsevaks and Seva Bharti volunteers have been assisting police and fire services in cleaning and disinfection works.

Earlier, in a viral video, RSS workers are seen cleaning hospital beds and brooming floors in a bid to help the hospital authorities. Senior functionaries have revealed that around 70,000 daily shakhas of RSS and its affiliate organisations have been asked to prioritise the fight against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the top brass of the organisation is closely monitoring the situation on the ground.
 
There re plenty of threads about what the govt. is doing.

You are just willfully dumb and blind.


https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/wuhan-coronavirus-pakistan-hindus-rss-pictures/

RSS comes to the rescue of Pakistani Hindus amidst Coronavirus lockdown.

In Odisha and Karnataka, RSS Swayamsevaks have distributed masks and have conducted awareness drives. In Madhya Pradesh, they have sanitised an entire village while in Kerala, Swayamsevaks and Seva Bharti volunteers have been assisting police and fire services in cleaning and disinfection works.

rss-helped-pakistani-hindu-in-lockdown-768x432-1-696x392.jpg

RSS in action

The Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) has always been the frontrunners at times of natural calamities or disasters. The attitude of selfless service and nation above individual interests motivate the volunteers to step in and help local communities. Their endeavour has remained unchanged even in the wake of the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak.

At a time when migrant workers are fleeing home with no jobs, the Pakistani Hindus living in squalor in Adarsh Nagar has found a new light of hope. It is important to remember how these persecuted and marginalised group was ostracised by the left-liberal jamaat during the Anti-CAA agitation. Nonetheless, The RSS volunteers met those living as destitute in India and provided them ration.





RSS member handing out ration

Ration



Queue to collect ration
pak-hindu-rss-9.jpg

RSS member handing out ration
pak-hindu-rss-10.jpg

RSS member handing out ration
In Odisha and Karnataka, RSS Swayamsevaks have distributed masks and have conducted awareness drives. In Madhya Pradesh, they have sanitised an entire village while in Kerala, Swayamsevaks and Seva Bharti volunteers have been assisting police and fire services in cleaning and disinfection works.

Earlier, in a viral video, RSS workers are seen cleaning hospital beds and brooming floors in a bid to help the hospital authorities. Senior functionaries have revealed that around 70,000 daily shakhas of RSS and its affiliate organisations have been asked to prioritise the fight against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the top brass of the organisation is closely monitoring the situation on the ground.

"Viral videos", photo ops... As I asked in my first post on this thread, what were these woke people doing for the last 70+ years about the various ills of Indian society ??

Many times on PDF pages I get ads from the organization Ketto asking for crowdfunded donations for treatment generally of youngsters for various diseases. The cost of each treatment goes into lakhs. What are these "Woke during Corona" people doing about this ?? Why is high-quality free medical treatment not a human right for each person in India ?? Why is there homelessness and hunger ??
 
Looking at you protecting CCP, which has caused the Chinese Virus pandemic all over the world, including your country, we can safely assume whose is the brainless idiot.
What a retard logic you have, how can China able to stop spreading this disease within their country and spreading outside the country,China has extremely small chances to stop this,you lack logic and commonsense,use your brain if you have you indiot
 
Why India’s wealthy happily donate to god and govt but loathe helping needy and poor
Be it Amitabh Bachchan or Virat Kohli, India’s rich and famous are quick to lecture or follow PM Modi’s diktat. But selfless charity is missing among most Indians.
KAVEREE BAMZAI 28 March, 2020 12:30 pm IST

Modern world is facing its worst crisis in coronavirus pandemic and what are Indian celebrities doing? Well, many clapped and banged pots and pans on 22 March at 5 pm following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call, and filmed themselves while doing so. Others are showing us how to do dishes and clean the home, participating in mock celebrity bartan-jhadu-poncha (BJP) challenges. The rest of the world is trying to help find a cure for the deadly virus or providing monetary assistance to the poor or arranging equipment for medical workers, underlining yet again the generosity gap between other countries’ and India’s elite.

Tennis star Roger Federer donates $1.02 million to support the most vulnerable families in Switzerland during the coronavirus crisis; India’s former cricket captain Sourav Ganguly gives away Rs 50 lakh worth of rice in collaboration with the West Bengal-based company Lal Baba Rice, in what is clearly a sponsored, mutual brand-building exercise. Chinese billionaire Jack Ma donates one million face masks and 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the United States, and pledged similar support for European and African countries; Amitabh Bachchan uses social media to spread half-baked information — such as ‘flies spread coronavirus’ — and wonders if the clanging of pots, pans and thalis defeats the potency of the virus because it was Amavasya on 22 March (he later deleted the tweet).


Hollywood’s golden couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds announce they will donate $1 million to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada that work for low-income families and the elderly; while Indian cricket and Bollywood’s beautiful match Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma get into familiar lecture mode, asking everyone to “stay home and stay safe”. This follows Anushka Sharma’s earlier run-in with a ‘luxury car’ passenger where she ticked him off for violating PM Modi’s diktat of Swachh Bharat.

Where the rich are charitably poor
What makes rich and famous Indians so quick to lecture, especially on issues in congruence with government initiatives, but so loathe to help the poor desperately in need? The 2010 Giving Pledge by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, to which five wealthy Indians are signatories, was meant to give a gigantic push to philanthropy worldwide. This was followed by India’s then minister of corporate affairs Sachin Pilot making it legally mandatory for companies to put aside charity funds for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects, making India the first country in the world to pass such a legislation. This year, an attempt to criminalise non-compliance was eventually softened after an uproar from corporates.

Philanthropy is up. According to Bain and Company’s annual Philanthropy Report 2020, domestic philanthropic funding has rapidly grown from approximately Rs 12,500 crore in 2010 to approximately Rs 55,000 crore in 2018. Contributions by individual philanthropists have also recorded strong growth in the past decade. In 2010, individual contributions accounted for 26 per cent of private funding, and as of 2018, individuals contribute about 60 per cent of the total private funding in India, estimated at approximately Rs 43,000 crore.

But in a prophetic warning, the report underscored the need for philanthropy ”to now consciously focus on India’s most vulnerable” and called for targeted action for the large population caught in a vicious cycle of vulnerability — precisely those worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic.


“The disadvantaged,” it said, “are unable to adapt to unpredictable situations that can push them deeper into vulnerability, such as climate change, economic risks and socio-political threats.” Even Azim Premji, who recently made news by committing 34 per cent of his company’s shares — worth $7.5 billion or Rs 52,750 crore — to his continuing cause, the public schooling system in India, has not set aside anything specific for those affected by the coronavirus. India’s second-richest man was the first Indian to sign The Giving Pledge.

Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Chief Sustainability Officer at Renew Power, started charity a few years ago to promote giving. Her experience has been less than happy. Indians, she finds, have refrained from planned giving for broader societal transformation. “Giving is individualistic and not driven via networks, which can be quite effective as we have seen in other parts of the world like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And in India, giving is usually done to get something back – to god for prosperity, to religious affiliations for advocacy of these platforms, and to government for business returns. Wealthy Indians need to learn to give in a planned way for greater social impact and transformation,” she says.

Little surprise then that India was ranked 124 in World Giving Index 2018 — and placed 82 in the 10th edition of the index compiled by Charities Aid Foundation looking at the data for 128 countries over the 10-year period.

All of us are in the same boat
But it’s not about celebrities or wealthy Indians alone. We are all in it together. Special planes are sent to bring back Indians stuck abroad due to the pandemic, but labourers and daily wage workers are left to walk hundreds of kilometres to reach their villages. Doctors treating coronavirus patients will be applauded but not allowed to enter their homes.

JNU sociologist Maitrayee Chaudhuri calls it a potent mix of selfishness, self care and entitlement. ”We have a complete disregard for people on the margins and on whose labour we sit. It is all about us and our safety,” she says. This communal selfishness is very different from the churning in the 19th and early 20th century, which led to enormous social reform movements. The slow and meticulous destruction of ‘secularism’, ‘socialism’ and ‘liberalism’ has helped. As has the rise of neoliberal ‘individual self centredness’. “Not to talk about smartphone dumbness,” she adds. There is an absence of empathy everywhere, filled instead with the noise of thalis being banged and bells being rung to show symbolic gratitude to those who serve us.

The examples of those who are giving are few and far in between. There is comedian Kapil Sharma, who is giving Rs 50 lakh to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and southern superstars Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan and Rajinikanth. But in general, our stars have chosen to share very little. Former cricket captain M.S. Dhoni, for instance, has been reported to have donated Rs 1 lakh to a charity trust in Pune, which led to some criticism and a counter from his wife Sakshi, even though it wasn’t immediately clear which incident she was alluding to.

India Inc hasn’t fared much better either. When PM Modi asked everyone to show their support for health workers fighting coronavirus by applauding them, one of the country’s most proactive industrialists was among the first to tweet his support, and also one of the first to be trolled for it. He quickly responded by offering to manufacture ventilators, among other things. Reliance is reportedly donating a hospital for coronavirus patients, weeks after Isha Ambani had hosted a Holi party on 7 March — when the number of coronavirus cases had rapidly begun to rise. Her mother, after all, is the queen of giving, contributing to an array of eclectic causes, and has been honoured for it by getting elected to the board of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019 or by becoming the first Indian woman in 2016 to be elected to the International Olympic Committee for supporting the sporting dreams of seven million Indian children.

But for India’s corporate class, it took a nudge from the Principal Scientific Adviser K. VijayRaghavan to remind them that healthcare and preventive healthcare are covered under Schedule VII of the Companies Act: “Hence supporting any project or programme for preventing or controlling or managing COVID19 is legitimate CSR (CSR) expenditure.” He also quickly got an office memorandum issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs a day later.

All of us are in the same boat
But it’s not about celebrities or wealthy Indians alone. We are all in it together. Special planes are sent to bring back Indians stuck abroad due to the pandemic, but labourers and daily wage workers are left to walk hundreds of kilometres to reach their villages. Doctors treating coronavirus patients will be applauded but not allowed to enter their homes.

JNU sociologist Maitrayee Chaudhuri calls it a potent mix of selfishness, self care and entitlement. ”We have a complete disregard for people on the margins and on whose labour we sit. It is all about us and our safety,” she says. This communal selfishness is very different from the churning in the 19th and early 20th century, which led to enormous social reform movements. The slow and meticulous destruction of ‘secularism’, ‘socialism’ and ‘liberalism’ has helped. As has the rise of neoliberal ‘individual self centredness’. “Not to talk about smartphone dumbness,” she adds. There is an absence of empathy everywhere, filled instead with the noise of thalis being banged and bells being rung to show symbolic gratitude to those who serve us.

The examples of those who are giving are few and far in between. There is comedian Kapil Sharma, who is giving Rs 50 lakh to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and southern superstars Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan and Rajinikanth. But in general, our stars have chosen to share very little. Former cricket captain M.S. Dhoni, for instance, has been reported to have donated Rs 1 lakh to a charity trust in Pune, which led to some criticism and a counter from his wife Sakshi, even though it wasn’t immediately clear which incident she was alluding to.

India Inc hasn’t fared much better either. When PM Modi asked everyone to show their support for health workers fighting coronavirus by applauding them, one of the country’s most proactive industrialists was among the first to tweet his support, and also one of the first to be trolled for it. He quickly responded by offering to manufacture ventilators, among other things. Reliance is reportedly donating a hospital for coronavirus patients, weeks after Isha Ambani had hosted a Holi party on 7 March — when the number of coronavirus cases had rapidly begun to rise. Her mother, after all, is the queen of giving, contributing to an array of eclectic causes, and has been honoured for it by getting elected to the board of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019 or by becoming the first Indian woman in 2016 to be elected to the International Olympic Committee for supporting the sporting dreams of seven million Indian children.

But for India’s corporate class, it took a nudge from the Principal Scientific Adviser K. VijayRaghavan to remind them that healthcare and preventive healthcare are covered under Schedule VII of the Companies Act: “Hence supporting any project or programme for preventing or controlling or managing COVID19 is legitimate CSR (CSR) expenditure.” He also quickly got an office memorandum issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs a day later.

Indian philanthropy isn’t secular
In India, the twain of religious giving and secular funding has not met. Management expert Nirmalya Kumar calls it a sensitive subject and says it is related to the philosophical concept underlying Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism that believe in reincarnation. “Our soul starts life again in a different physical form based on the karma of previous lives. As such, as has been sometimes articulated to me, the lack of charity is an unwillingness to interfere with the consequences that God has determined appropriate. Who am I to come in between the person and their God?”

But the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is traditionally known for engaging in social seva (not just swayam seva , or self service), evidenced by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s decision to feed five crore people during the 21-day lockdown. Sikhism has a well-developed tradition of Guru ka langar, and it was on full display at Shaheen Bagh when ordinary Sikhs served food to people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Some business families also do philanthropic work, among them the Nilekanis, the Murtys and the older Bharatrams (their founder Lala Shri Ram founded Delhi Cloth Mills and set up several educational institutes like Shri Ram College of Commerce and Lady Shri Ram College). Radhika Bharatram, joint vice chairperson, The Shri Ram Schools, recalls growing up in a middle class, progressive home where her sister and she were encouraged to volunteer at the Cheshire Home and Mother Teresa Home. Marriage, she says, brought her into a home where making contributions to society was in the family’s DNA and she is now involved as a volunteer with organisations such as Delhi Crafts Council, Blind Relief Association, SRF Foundation, the CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Programme, and Cancer Awareness Prevention and Early Detection. What drives her is empathy: When “you come from a position of privilege, there is joy in making a difference to someone else’s life”. She says it motivates her when the purpose is greater than the individual.

Unfortunately, the middle class and the elites have tended to keep self interest above public interest. In the new world after the coronavirus pandemic, this is one attitude it must change.

https://theprint.in/opinion/india-wealthy-happily-donate-god-govt-loathe-helping-needy-poor/390206/
You are so obsessed with India that you dont even check the facts before posting any bullshit. oh wait, expecting fact checks from the people of the country who were behind all this mess in the first place will be too much to ask. Keep posting articles for your self goals...It hardly matters to the world. It would be best you should start posting articles to mend China image world over which has taken a nose dive south because of its dirty act regarding corona. China has lots to explain to the world in the coming future.
 
You are so obsessed with India that you dont even check the facts before posting any bullshit. oh wait, expecting fact checks from the people of the country who were behind all this mess in the first place will be too much to ask. Keep posting articles for your self goals...It hardly matters to the world. It would be best you should start posting articles to mend China image world over which has taken a nose dive south because of its dirty act regarding corona. China has lots to explain to the world in the coming future.

CCP is on a propaganda overdrive to spread the narrative China saved the world from COVID, part of which involves destroying evidence, blaming others and highlighting COVID misery in other nations to distract domestic audience.

Given this a testing time for those who spread CCP propaganda , failure to not meet daily quotas could probably result in organ extraction or disappearance.
 
"Viral videos", photo ops... As I asked in my first post on this thread, what were these woke people doing for the last 70+ years about the various ills of Indian society ??

Many times on PDF pages I get ads from the organization Ketto asking for crowdfunded donations for treatment generally of youngsters for various diseases. The cost of each treatment goes into lakhs. What are these "Woke during Corona" people doing about this ?? Why is high-quality free medical treatment not a human right for each person in India ?? Why is there homelessness and hunger ??
Crowd funding happens all around the world because it is successful and result in people able to spend money directly on the needy.

There is homelessness and hunger even in the most developed countries. These are part of the society. Dont compare western world way of living with eastern world way of living. Both cultures are different and there is a huge population gap and standard of living. All of the subcontinent and Africa were looted so much under western powers in the last 2 centuries, it will take many more decades before every one is pulled out of these kind of sufferings. Atleast with effort the government is able to bring many out of the poverty but there is lots of work to be done.
 
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