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January 17, 2005
Social Responsibility – Is it a myth?
Be it Corporate Social Responsibily or Celebrities Social Responsibility, you always find many people going overboard on it. They have little hesitation in accusing the corporate world or the celebrities for the lack of social responsibility. This has been in my mind for some time and always wanted to write about it. In fact I have been googling for the past few days for any article on this.
Vijay Rana of History Talking.com writes in Bollywood`s silence on tsunami about Bollywood’s indifference to the tsunami tragedy and lack of it’s social responsibility. Finally he concludes by saying “After initial silence and after this article was written some of the Bollywood stars have come forward with donations. Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherji and Karan Johan have donated Rs 1.5 crores and Ashwarya Rai has made a contribution of Rs 5 lacs. Javed Akhter and Dilip Kumar have made appeals for public donations”. I find this very amusing!! He has said as though all these bollywood celebrities have contributed only after this article was published… Nice story Vijay, but a bit difficult to digest though.
The corporate and the celebrities are certainly helping the social cause in their own way. Some publicize it, but others keep it to themselves. I don’t contribute to social cause, either financially or physically, just because some celebrity or a corporate contributed to it. I do it because of the urge within myself to help people. So the talk of publicizing the charity work in itself will induce people to do social work, I think, will not hold water.
I anyways don’t think high of people who wait for others to do something before they start moving.
Is the feeling mutual??
Posted by Vasanth at January 17, 2005 04:03 PM