Honesty is casualty

Honesty is now-a-days the casualty.Why?To answer is,perhaps,difficult.Maybe we are,by and large, dishonest,more or less.Most of us try to have quick gains,anyhow.We don't have the mind to go by the Gandhian teaching : the goal must be noble,and also the means.Rather we find it convenient to follow Machiavelli :end determines the means. It appears,everywhere it is the go of the day.The honest people are the victims of circumstances.

                With honesty is linked the personality.What is personality? To-day most people confuse personality with street smartness.A well-dressed person talking fluently and cunningly is taken to be a man of personality.Is it so? Then what about Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,Tagore ,Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi?Were they not men of personality? If they were,then honesty in thought and action were the dominant attribute of their character.

                 But now such people are rare and often suppressed.They are not respected and talked about openly.Their honesty is often taken to be their weakness.We measure the worth of a man by his money and muscle power.Honest people cannot be wealthy overnight ,and they don't flex muscle to be respected.They are in the habit of calling a spade a spade,and this is their nemesis. They don't call a bad man good,a vice a virtue.We  are equivocators,and,therefore,cannot appreciate plain talk.We are for tall talk,hollow talk.We clap when someone makes hollow promises. This is the irony of the situation in which honest people are undone.We have Iagos, all around , reigning.Honesty is,therefore,the casualty.