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Sunday 1 September 2013

Respecting ragpickers

Ragpickers are the people who visit the areas of our locality to pick up garbage generally. They collect useless household items like food remains, bottles, paper, plastic products like plastic bags, etc.

Without their service the useless remains would remain at home. House & locality wouldn’t be clean. Environment could become a breeding place for germs & insects. This can make people get infected easily due to the rise in germs & insects in the locality. This can make people ill. Even if one family member gets ill then his illness could spread to his family members. Children won’t be able to go to school. People who work may not show efficiency at work due to their illness & some may not go to work if illness is high. This can decrease work productivity. Decline in work productivity would affect profit & if profit will decline then even economy will suffer.

Thus ragpickers play an important role for any country’s economy but they don’t get the credit & respect they deserve.

Their work is very tough. Collecting useless products & dumping it at the place of collection & sometimes burning the waste keeps the environment clean. They do this monotonous job everyday sincerely even during harsh weather where many opt to stay at home. The work very hard but get paid very less. Many organisations consider them the last class of workers but in my opinion what they do is great.

People respect mostly those who’re better than them economically or have a good position in the society. We all must understand the significance of their hard work & respect them equally. One must be humble enough mentally to share pleasantries, smiles & statements with them without any hesitation as they are the prime conservers of our environment.

Purchasing a phone economically

I was bored with my HTC touch P3452 phone after using it for around 1 year. I was looking to buy a phone that has a 5 megapixel camera. I checked for many phones on Google but I wasn’t interested in spending that much.

I went to a mobile store & saw some phones kept for display purpose. I found that after being kept out for many months those phones are sold lesser than their actual price.

I felt that purchasing that type of phone would help me save some money. The phones kept for display are just kept out for customers to understand the phone’s features & in my personal humble opinion there isn’t any problem if one purchases it.

So to save some money I purchased a 5 megapixel Samsung galaxy smart phone.

Helping your own country person rather than helping a foreigner

Although I’m a believer of one world one family but when it comes to decide between an Indian & a foreigner I would prefer an Indian.

India’s economy is falling. 1 American dollar is somewhat equal to Rs. 64. 1 Euro is somewhat equal to Rs. 86. Some of my friends wanted to do their higher studies abroad but due to the fall of Indian currency against American dollar & Euro they’ve dropped this desire. They don’t want to be a burden to their family’s finance.

I feel sad for the fall of Indian currency. It’s high time to understand the problems & prevent it so that our next generation won’t suffer.

A simple way to improve our economy is by purchasing Indian products instead of foreign brands. By doing this Indian companies would prosper & foreign companies would suffer.

This will help Indian brands to grow & with their growth they can spread their products overseas & compete with foreign brands. This can surely happen as India is the second populated country in the world. If many Indians would purchase Indian products then popularity of Indian products would rise & it will inspire & motivate the Westerners to purchase Indian products.

Foreign companies in many cases shy to donate money to Government fund & NGOs during natural calamities like flood etc in India whereas mostly financial donations comes by Indian industrialists. The prosperity of Indian companies would help Indian industrialists to be more generous.

Thus as an Indian I humbly request you to show loyalty to Indian brands rather than western brands. Google search is free so please do some study before purchasing a particular product. Check weather its Indian or foreign & then buy it.


I agree to you that at times you’ll be compelled to purchase a  foreign brand as it can be better than an Indian brand but whenever possible please don’t hesitate to opt for an Indian brand.