Dear All
Its been long I am writing. Was to busy in all the wordly affairs (if I must say so!)all these days which has made me a wee bit wiser.
Anyway, I can write only when I have a calm brain and some time has passed since I was last busy. I got up today morning from an eight hour sleep, after which I was a bit tired (you know when u do the same thing continuously for 8 hrs, you are bound to get tired). Relaxed a bit and now almost in a mood to write (you must already be finding the title apt!).
So, let me come to what I want to write. Its been a while since a good news has struck the country until we all heard that India has not reported a single polio case in last 1 year!
Well, these days all the Indians are so exposed to corrupt practices, that for me, its hard to believe the above fact. India has not reported even a single polio case because not even a single person was hit by it or its a fabricated number?
You know, being of this age group (23!) one is very positive about life and country's systems, but on a consistent basis since the UPA has formed the government the 2nd time, things for a layman and youth have not been very rosy!
We are so much exposed to corruption that a brain that is developing in this age gets corrupt automatically. In Mahabharata, Anhimanyu learnt the art of getting in a 'Chakraviewh' in the womb of his mother when she was just listening to it. We all are listening to the corrupt practices of government on a daily rather hourly basis, what are we learning?
May it be the 2G scam (where there was as per a learned Cabinet Miniter of the government there was 'ZERO' revenue loss) or the Aadarsh scam, for which a CM had to give up his chair, or the Lavasa project, or the Commonwealth scam (because organisers actually thought it was common wealth they are managing) or Mining scams around the country, or defence scams or whatever, everywhere the government miserably failed to show any exemplary decision.
Other than these scams, we badly failed in our defence (internal and external), railways, infrastructure development, economic development and pity on Moral Policing by the great Minister!!
Let us discuss some of them in brief:
1. Defence (Internal & External): I have used defence as a broad term here to include foreign as well as home affairs. Thanks to one of our Ministers, we have faced a lot of humiliation by some of his very irresponsible 'readings' or may I say due to him being very over aged for the position, he has lost his great sense of understanding. The internal conditions are not worth even discussing! After the change in Home Minister, we had some hopes, but all we got were some sick dossiers!
I think the government missed a political trick and defamed 2 of its senior leaders where as they could have done it without defaming the other. I don't know why the previous HM resigned, because he was also not doing anything and getting a bad name for it, the new one also did nothing and got defamed. Government could have avoided humiliation of one of its ministers at least! The naxals are still operating the way they were, rather expanded, Kasab is more confident that he will see his grandchildren at least, Afzal has now started shaving, first he had lost hope! There is still great corruption in police, rather tremendous. So the PC has caught a lot of viruses and failing miserably to reboot, needs to be turned off!
2.Railways: Hats off to Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav (i miss you as the railway minister), who in actual sense of the word, changed Railways for good. But again, politics takes its toll and we have seen some of the most furious accidents, compromising security, and above all, losses again!
We have again turned to red, both on tracks (due to accidents) and in books!
3. Infrastructure (no) development: I live in a state that proudly boasts only 2 -3 hours of power cut a day in cities! Thank you Mr. CM. I wish I was born in Gujarat or Mr. Modi in Rajasthan! Not only electricity, but the infra spending has slowed down like anything. Government, I guess is scared that better infrastructure facilities will allow more people to come out in rallies of people like Mr. Hazare and create problems for the government!
4. Economic development: Is it? I have been losing money in stock market from a long long time! And I know, government cannot do much about it because the concerned minister is too busy resolving intra - coalition disputes and pleasing 'didi' in WB! The head, being a super economist, is don't know busy where, and another good economist is looking after home (wrong job may be)!!
5. Moral Policing: This is humorous now!! Human resource development!! I laugh my stomach out when I hear HRD!! Kindly concentrate on the grass root level, Sir. Look at the quality of teachers this country has in villages, cities and even private schools. Pls make teaching a respected profession in this country, where when people like me delivers a lecture to CA final students or some other professionals, people call 'Master ji'!! Pls improve the quality of miserable teachers and condition of government and private schools. Pls give youth the direction they need or create youth leaders in every city who can guide the youth. Take young professionals in your team, pay them well, and see wonders happening!
On one side we have almost obscene Parliament, morally corrupt politicians (some interesting cases in state of Rajasthan itself, which involves a former minister and a few MLA's involved in a sensational murder), our censor board passes films like 'the dirty picture' and on the other side we are talking about legal action against social networking coz they freely allow people like us to openly talk about your 2G (Madam G and Bhaiya G, who was also awarded the title of 'Rashtriya Nasamajh' by some social media). This is height of hypocrisy, sir!
And in any case, the telecom ministry should have gone to the person whom everybody calls and tells the secret every time. So that he could ban outgoing on team Anna's phone network as well as outgoing on Ramdev Baba's phone network. Actually he got a phone call from some body who told him that baba is a 'thug' and disclosed it to the media!!
So we are in funny state of affairs which is miserable too!!
I am too confused to understand why the PM is silent (well not even the experts have been able to answer this in last 8 years)? Why is issue of moral policing is important in a country which witnesses a murder every 30 seconds? Why is fb, twitter etc are being threatened in a country which still has highest number of Mal nourished kids? Why is prices rising like hell in a country where there a highest number of poor people? Why is money siphoned out of the country where people in the country don't have it? Why cant we even touch the naxals and maoists and Kasab/Afzal when we can throw a baba and a peaceful crowd in a few hours?
There are a lot of questions and now I am hell confused!!
I hope I am able to find answers in my generation at least!
Signing off
Cheers!
Siddharth
