People Watching! - Surprises :)

Ageing society: celebrate or worry Over the years, I have found that walking and people watching has become one of my sources of understanding society at large and these observations are reinforced by the literature that I come across. I doubt many will know that October 1 was the world old people's day. With the reports being published that  India is one of the worst places to retire , the constant rise in retirement homes and rising crimes against older people, seems that unless the policy makers looked upon seriously now, I might be in deep trouble in 2050's :( One of the key determinants of  Ageism  (age based discrimination) can be attributed to the concept of 'Retirement'. The industrial revolution has without any doubt created more jobs and reformed education that it can have the right set of skills to fill its demand of laborers, but unfortunately this phase of being employed and worth is so much woven together. With the rise in rapid urbanization t

Half-truth or no truth:time to check! In the above mentioned case, the transfer of inaccurate information was evaded only because I was exposed to sound and diverse education systems which aided me to question the available knowledge and discern the source of it. Unfortunately, this is not the case for most of the social media users. Social media has created a whole new way of learning and millions are aware of the danger in being indoctrinated through self-made, self-interpreted and information that is not true. Without any doubt, I always believe that ' knowledge is power' but at the current state in which multitudes source of information had shifted from papers, television, books and classrooms to twitter, Facebook, google, Instagram and Watsapp it is quite questionable. The pace of social media cannot be stopped nor it is possible to restrict the information that is produced but we can ensure that we equip our younger generation to discern what is right and what