Why Give? Or Not Give?

“Donate for a good cause.”

“Your tenrupees a day can pay for apoor girl’s school fee for a year.”

“Buythese gorgeous handicrafts and help build a ruralhealth center.”

“If not for generous donors like you,thisvillage would have no clean water.”

Sound familiar?

Yes, we have all seen such notifications, such solicitationsfor donations and charity. Worded to evoke a certain sentiment, with appropriate picture(s) for complete effect. Such ‘calls for charity’arefound abundantly inall forms of ma...