Universal Brotherhood

This topic has been a favorite for all KV's and some other CBSE schools for a while... It was given to my class, among thousand others I'm sure, as an article to be written as homework. This is one of the only essays that I like that I've written for school. 


Consider the schools in Trivandrum to be a universe (or earth or world, whichever). Each school represents a nation. The students of each school, speaking for the general crowd, are devoted to their name, irrespective of whether they actually like going there. It is more the case of an identity. Loyolites with their pack mindset epitomizes. You often hear people say, "You mess with one of them and it's like provoking an army." This is not to say that the other schools are any different.

While this may be a good thing; students watching out for one another and providing support and all that, there is an ugly side to it too. Ugly because there's domination in strength of numbers over reason, development of a mob mentality, ridiculing others and considering them inferior - all because they have allegiance to another name; because their parents put them in a different school. All of this is the exact opposite of universal brotherhood.

But try imagining this... Remove all the separate groups of collective identities but keep the passion for one another and the looking out for others part. If this happens, it will widen everyone's mental  horizon, break narrow ideas and in short;create a world of reason and compassion. A place of universal brotherhood.