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Description - Socio-psychological trauma and resilience among homeless, landless and rootless people by Lalit Kumar

Since the inception of planet earth, the human beings on it have been sticking, inquiring,

wonderingand striving for accomplishing "La Dolce Vita" an Epicurean philosophy of passing

sweet and gentle life (Bhattacharya, 2006). The characteristic feature of their life is their

effort to make this as a wholesome by applying their brain processes for reciprocating and sharing

in order to prove their physical, social, mental and spiritual current of well-being. The science

and technology has further multiplied and polished the inner resources of people in the

contemporary scenario. As a result, the people on the earth have witnessed a tremendous

growth in every sphere.The minds of the certain people have over-advanced and they are

always in a search of ease.According to Hastir (2011), for achieving happiness and

tangible benefits, the human beings even do not hesitate to exploit other (July 20). For the

same, they may use their inner resources for achieving crude worldly pleasure

(Anandamurti, 2011) despite being tormented by the environmental stimuli. The endeavor to

accomplish such affable aspirations however were slower in Stone Age or Lithic period

due to their underdeveloped mental processes led by various socio-psychological factors

such as poverty, deprivation, illiteracy, lack of information, communication and knowledge

thosefueled and progressed with the advent of science and technology (Box & Englehart,

2006) as already mentioned above in the contemporary scenarios. Now the present civilization is

moving from 'eopolis' (village community with permanent habitation) to dynopolis' (not

only for the man but also for his cars, airplanes, helicopters and rockets) by

crossing 'metropolis' (mother city), 'megalopolis' (social decline of human community);

and 'tyrannopolis' (formation of ghost town) stages as well as 'invisible city', a

product of revolution in communications and electronic transmission.The advanced brain

and mind has been proving as a milestone for promoting the well-being of the people across the

country.


For fulfilling the cherished dream and attaining happiness the people are now migrating from

villages to the cities in hope to improve their life.This perception is amongst middle and

low caste families who suffer from marginalization or extreme prolonged deprivation. In rural

areas the poverty has enmeshed the people belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribe. They

have less tenured land as compared to their elite high caste people. The present generations from

such families

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