Personal Capital vs Social capital

 jdempsey@bancroftschool.org


When I was small my whole family used to visit our village during summer vacation. It was such a great experience visiting out grand parents. Village was very clean and we will go for morning walk in mango tree garden, near by. It was so refreshing to see wheat crops. We were privileged in sense every one recognized that we are grand children of lawyer Kohli. Every one treated us like guest. Which side of village we go we were welcomed with open arms.

It was very pleasant experience for all of us, but since I was very small could never find out why it was so, ie why it was such a rich experience visiting my grandparents.

Now I have grown old, I can analyse that people of my grand parents village were very wise. Every Saturday night village had panchayat and people having any ‘x’ problem was given sympathetic hearing. My grandparents  used to help everyone solve their problems. 
After few years my grand parents started living in US.They will send some fixed amount of money for well fare of their village.Once in two years they will visit their village.They were deeply involved in making their village better. For that my grandparents were  respected  by villagers.

Friends moral of story is that my grand parents village has good amount of social capital, therefore people who had personal capital were happy  and felt proud to live in that village. Same was the reason ie social capital of the village made us children happy visiting our grand parents village.

Word count 263

Sukarma Thareja 

For STEM poems and Life stories please read
 http://sukarmamusing.blogspot.com

My kindle book Science of Life and Nature: A Photo Poetry Collection: Sukarma Thareja: 9781521260067: Amazon.com: Books For curious minds
https://sites.google.com/site/drsukarmaranithareja/home

https://share.google/T7IBdadph9agQEEHg




No comments:

featured post

Wish of Mother Rani-2

  Wish of Mother  Rani It is very difficult for Rani to forget the formula which decides gender formation, ie, male/female in any species, i...

cofigure popular posts