People Are Not Wrong, They Are Different!
If we understand this simple fact then we can reduce lots of antagonisms, tensions, and frictions prevailing in the society currently among various groups and individuals.
In the current political environment, the psychiatrically ill and at-risk populations are increasing in our country (and in many parts of the developed world too), leading to societal problems such as political/ideological conflicts, religious hostilities, terrorist attacks, sexual assaults etc. as well as individual problems such as financial, criminal, social isolation, sexual, etc. as evidenced by the increasing number of suicides in the society.
It is in this context that Denmark’s Human library, where you can read people like a book, gains significance.
https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/human-library-in-denmark-allows-you-to-borrow-a-person-and-learn-their-story-9118
This is a unique social learning platform where the books are people and the stories are recounted by real-life characters that lived them. In India too, we can think of setting up in every village, people libraries, where you, individually or in a group, can borrow humans, who have unique stories to tell, for a specific period of time like 30, 45, 60 minutes.
These people libraries will make political leaders, religious heads, and ordinary people less afraid of concepts and things that are different from what they are used to in their everyday lives. We can even think of taking these people libraires online.
The government's UPI-type Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) that will be launched shortly in India would be an ideal platform for this purpose, where the customers who want to borrow and people who want to sell their 'life books' can effectively interact. This type of social support libraries are essential for maintaining the physical and psychological health of people.
In the current political environment, the psychiatrically ill and at-risk populations are increasing in our country (and in many parts of the developed world too), leading to societal problems such as political/ideological conflicts, religious hostilities, terrorist attacks, sexual assaults etc. as well as individual problems such as financial, criminal, social isolation, sexual, etc. as evidenced by the increasing number of suicides in the society.
It is in this context that Denmark’s Human library, where you can read people like a book, gains significance.
https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/human-library-in-denmark-allows-you-to-borrow-a-person-and-learn-their-story-9118
This is a unique social learning platform where the books are people and the stories are recounted by real-life characters that lived them. In India too, we can think of setting up in every village, people libraries, where you, individually or in a group, can borrow humans, who have unique stories to tell, for a specific period of time like 30, 45, 60 minutes.
These people libraries will make political leaders, religious heads, and ordinary people less afraid of concepts and things that are different from what they are used to in their everyday lives. We can even think of taking these people libraires online.
The government's UPI-type Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) that will be launched shortly in India would be an ideal platform for this purpose, where the customers who want to borrow and people who want to sell their 'life books' can effectively interact. This type of social support libraries are essential for maintaining the physical and psychological health of people.
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