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August 2022

THE SOCIETY OF TOMORROW

By Pooja Sanghvi
Reading Time 6 mins
[This essay won the Best Essay Prize at Tarang 2k22 (CA Students Annual Day), organised by BCAS]

Where the mind is without fear,
And the head is held high!


These are the very words that come to my mind when I dream about tomorrow’s society. How would it be? Sustainable, all-encompassing, filled with glad acceptance and eco-friendly! Ah! These are just a few words for the beautiful society of tomorrow.

Let us but retrospect first. Society is not other people, as we often look at it as a distant bird of a different tree. Bursting this bubble and accepting that society is not ‘them’, but it’s ‘us’; it’s made of you and me shall be the first step to improving our lives. As our Bapu, a human with impeccable foresight, had said “Be the change you want to see”. Yes! You and I can make a difference. The butterfly effect is logical, and the ripples of kindness we make in our society shall prove to be big waves for the nation.

The society of tomorrow cares for a clean environment as much as it cares for a clean grid on its Instagram. Because honestly, ‘What are you doing? Why are you even doing it when it is harming the Earth, our true home in the widest of senses'. A society that is conscious about its choices saves water and cycles to work to ensure lesser pollution, does not mindlessly pump factory poison into rivers,