Six decades ago this very country was cheering full of optimism and joy, it was ready to put up a show the world has never seen before. Although it was licking its wounds caused by partition and communal divide, but it was optimistic. India and people of India were optimistic, were eager to work for their nation and were willing to do something. Few would have realized that this very country of their own, will become an example for the world, a case study for "How not to grow".
A lot had happened in years prior to the dawn of so-called 21st century, India had survived several attacks on its sovereignty it survived its own diversity for which people had predicted that India will fall due to its own weight, India survived its own people and politics. But At the midnight hours of 14th August when the world was sleeping and India was awake, at the moment of tryst with its destiny, India didn't thought of merely surviving.
No one realized as when a country which is known for its demeanour turned into a country full of people hungry for money and power. Be it the ruling class or the executive no one made any concessions when it came to digest public funds, this very culture gave birth to a demon which is now threatening the unity and integrity of the country. This demon of corruption became so large that Supreme Court suggested making corruption legal. Millions of those who deals with the "Great Indian Executive class" are aware that it’s all legal. Against the laws of physics your file doesn't moves or goes up unless you putt weight on it, greater the weight higher the speed.
Everything that is related to the Government has a fixed rate, few would have realized as how money paid to some clerk in some random office goes to those who are ruling this country while many have questioned why they don't act? Answer is simple a portion of what I paid to the clerk will go to his superior and superior commanding many such clerks will transfer a portion to his superior and so on, building the great pyramid of corruption. This is a great bazar where everything is one sale, and it has been demonstrated recently.
The great show of India's pride, common wealth games, made headlines and were live example of this indigenous pyramid, followed by the mother of all scams "spectrum- Ghotala" as known in general. But, the most discouraging and shocking was the Aadarsh, a Building in Mumbai, whose residents were India's topmost military commanders, bureaucrats and politicians was built on land allotted for war widows, and sadly not even a single flat went to those who deserved it. Following it many such scams from different parts of the country emerged and vanished in headlines. Earlier Armed forces were considered as an island in the midst of "ocean of corruption". Now, we have lost that island too.
India is a cricket crazy country, to the extent that it is termed as a religion in the country, it helped people to forget their worries, it gave them a reason to cheer, a moment of joy and a reason to become Indian sadly though. It overshadowed every other game in the country and it covered everything that matters. No matter how big a scam is, people are more than happy to forget it, if India wins a match.
Well, now when somehow 21st century has arrived at our doorstep and India has crossed one billion+20 mark, people got a new mantra, emerging India. I don't understand why they don't understand that a country with so much of natural resources and market, has to emerge and there is no great deal about it.
So with world’s second largest population we have world’s fifth largest economy, what's the big deal in it. If we had provided a humble life to every Indian we would have been in a much better position.
I find it hard to see a true success story, despite being a population of more than a billion we import high end electronics and military grade software's from a country smaller and far less populated than Mumbai. No one even realizes that we just lost some of the finest men and women just because of our inaction.
sad story is not that India failed to develop and realize its dreams, but that Life has lost its value. No one really cares for people dying and kids crying on streets. We have become so indifferent to such inhuman treatment to our own countrymen that we don't even realize that they too are humans.
Lal-Batti culture has encroached so deep that we feel proud if we are successful in insulting someone and prove ourselves somewhat better. As a dear friend of mine said "This country is growing because of aspiration and hard work of individuals", I would say the day those individuals started feeling the burden of other countrymen they are carrying, there will be anarchy, and this county will fall.
I'll be painted as a traitor if I say that Maoists are patriots, which certainly they are not, but there was a time when they were, later on their leaders started enjoying power and money sent to them by foreign governments interested in destabilizing India through their 1000 wounds policy, but one should not forget that they do have a mass support and that is the only reason that they are still surviving and thriving.
Reason for their survival is our negligence, we know everything about useless facts of cricket, we know everything about cinema, but we as an Indian are not interested in what matters. This is shameful.
Are we a world power and more importantly can we be a world power, where half of the country is ages behind the rest half, where people are busy fighting in the name of language, religion and region. Where we still finds it hard to stand as a country, where name of one state is next to slang for others, where those who are entrusted to be fair became power brokers.
How we are going to reach their, if at all........?
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