In 2017 was released a lovely Marathi song written by Sameer Samant, sung by Ajit Parab and Mugdha Vaishampayan, and set to music by Kaushal Inamdar. It was from "Ubuntu". The words loosely translated are as follow. ''This alone is our prayer/like human beings behave with (an)other."
It captures the soul of the notion called United Nations human aid, irrespective of the usual suspects such as race, class, gender, region, language, and caste. The Baghdad bombings in 2003, and the death of more than twenty humanitarian volunteers who were there to help the war torn Iraq led to the initiation of this memorial day on August 19, known as World Humanitarian Day, which celebrates humane conduct.
Unfortunately, however, missing precisely is this feel. Even within the so-called family circles, people funnily gang up to target an innocent individual or two due to their own misconceptions, their ego, their eternal competitive one-up-man-ship, their malice and petty jealousies, and their ganging up to avoid looking at the downright bad behaviour of someone who got them and theirs cushy comforts!
If such are the so-called extended family relationships, imagine how warring nations would behave! In that torrid, toxic, terror-filled atmosphere, easy casualties are the UN peace, humanitarian aid candidates who die because to help the vulnerable they try. The day is to mark their martyrdom! Indeed an honourable concept worthy of emulation, not just once annually, but every day!
Pratima@Behaviour is the perfect mirror to the real 'I', hidden at times even from one's own self!
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