Human Problems

 Human or social problems are not, for example, like weather problems. These problems exist through persons only. A social problem becomes a problem as such only when a good number of people personify that problem. The challenge is that these persons also partake in discoursing the problem. It so happened that a scholar came to research an institution of which I was a part. When I shared my thoughts, she objected and pointed to me that I was saying something just opposite to what my colleagues had said. 

 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

Ecology of a Problem

A clearly identifiable social problem as a standalone phenomenon having its exclusive causes and consequences does not exist as such. Such a sifting and separating is an intellectual exercise only which is not the reality. The social conditions are highly diffused of things that go into their making. The point I want to make is that a social problem does not drop from the sky like a meteor but it occurs as a result of the prolonged crystallisation of effects of some dysfunctionality of social ecology. If we really care for society, we need to work on the ecology which feeds a problem. It's a long-drawn and thoughtful process.

Niraj Kumar Jha