It is saddening especially when you are on the disadvantaged side to see a section of the same society having virtually everything while yours is in squalor. It is more so, if you find out that more is given to “them” that already have much. My teachers called it uneven development while I prefer calling it an osmotic development. Weird I bet, but truly, thinking about such ugly reality of the society where more development is given to a much more developed section of the society in the utter disregard of its next, sends striking memories of the meaning of the word, “Osmosis” which I learnt when I offered Chemistry in my formative years in Senior Secondary School. Generally speaking, osmosis gives more to much. Our beautiful world is rife with this ugly osmotic development at every societal level. In the international politics, this ugly reality manifests itself as North-South, Centre-Periphery, and Development and Underdevelopment. In our national life, the No...
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