Ripe Old Trouble

One gets the feeling that the administrative machinery, as also the society at large, in the country is always overburdened with political troubles and economic wrangles. It has no time to pay quality attention towards such ground-level social issues like geriatric suicide. Over-simplified tracking down of the cause of this social disease to hapless isolation of the elders do not hold ground in certain cases. As the social set-up gets more and more complex by the day, the laws need to get more and more case-specific. Our elders, like Gen-Xs, Gen-Ys and the like, are also an integral part of our social system and are to be respected like any other human and treated likewise. This is something that one gets to know since one's infancy. But the thing is that this bit of theoretical moral value has to be implemented in practical life. Is the twenty-first century neo-Indian Homo sapiens economicus in the global village, just a narcissist or is he/she still humane enough to 'love' the young and the old alike?