Power and Corruption

CASTE DISCRIMINATION Caste discrimination is one of the worst human rights abuses in the world today. It is little understood and rarely acknowledged and affects more than 260 million people worldwide. Through a hierarchical system, the assignment of basic rights among various castes is highly unequal, with those at the top enjoying most rights coupled with least duties and those at the bottom performing most duties coupled with no rights. The system is maintained through the rigid enforcement of social ostracism (a system of social and economic penalties). Discrimination involves massive violations of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. It is often outlawed in countries affected by it, but a lack of implementation of legislation and caste-bias within the justice systems largely leave victims without protection.   The exclusion of so-called ‘lower caste communities’ by other individuals and groups in society and the inherent structural inequality in these...

  Types of Cyberbullying 1. Exclusion Exclusion is the act of singling out or leaving someone out deliberately. from an online group such as chats and sites . Exclusion exists with  in-person bullying situations , but is also used online to target and bully a victim. For example, an individual might be excluded/uninvited to groups or parties while they see other friends being included or left out of message threads or conversations that involve mutual friends . The group then subsequently leave malicious comments and harass the one they singled out. 2. Harassment It is a broad category that contains many types of cyberbullying. Harassment generally refers to a sustained and constant pattern of hurtful, offensive, malicious, or threatening online messages sent with the intention of doing harm to an individual or a group and is often repeated multiple times. 3. Outing/Doxing Outing, also known as doxing, refers to the act of openly revealing sensitive or persona...

  Power comes in many forms for example political power, economic power, the power of brain, the power of brawn, the power of love etc. It need not be a path to corruption. Instead, power offers a possibility to create because nothing can be created without power. It is only when power becomes a means to dominate that power becomes ugly and paves way for corruption. To be powerful is not a folly. It is very important that every human being should be a powerful human being because the opposite of being powerful is being powerless or weak. Weakness should not be celebrated just because power has been misused by some. Power by itself is not corruption. When human beings hankering for dominance get hold of power, it becomes a source of corruption. If human beings have a larger sense of identity within themselves and are seeing what they can create for everyone’s wellbeing, then power is a wonderful thing, and every human being should be a powerful human being. Power does not co...