I'm literate! Enough???

India's literacy rate is somewhere between 65-70% ( Youth literacy % is greater than this). It might have gone up because i am unaware of latest figures. Do you know what is the % of people who are learned? Amused??? Don't be.

Even i was not aware. But one incidence taught me well the same. Wikipedia, says a literate is one who can read and write. Why has it not included assimilating something you learn, apply at appropriate time, for the welfare of yourself, human race and society as a whole. I wish it were done!!!

I want to tell you why do i wish so. Last weekend, my friend and i, went to a restraunt. We wanted to order dinner for take away. While we were waiting, we saw two men sitting in a car and having their dinner. I realized that, the engine of the car was not turned off.

I would have not given it a thought, if it would have been on for minute or two. I analysed that, it might have taken 20 minutes to get the order. They were already having the dinner, so consider 10 minutes and 30 minutes, the time since we were there and god knows for how much time. So roughly they kept their engine on for 60 + minutes.

Do you think they thought on how much pollution they had created by keeping the engine on, how they have contributed to global warming, by keeping the A.C. on, while the engine was on ??? I am talking this because they appeared to be educated by the way they behaved, but however i feel they are not. They are not at all better, than a bucolic, illiterate man living in some remotely located village, who has never been to school.

So, think, the next time you want to have dinner in a car, or keep the engine of the car on for no use, keep the electrical and electronic appliances on without necessity, and prove yourself a TRUE LITERATE.