Monday, October 12, 2009
It happens only in India
Only in India you can have a Baba or a guru (read a quack) who can claim cures for a common cold to HIV and even homosexuality, by doing yoga.
Where the press does the job of the police and exposes everything from corruption to mafia – politics nexus, to rapes, to everything
Where the police does the job of the mafia and extorts money from the people
Where the mafia does the job of the governance and is in politics
Where the courts helps the rich to get out of prison
Where you are considered poor based on your caste and not economical status
Where child labor is easily available and exploited
Where you have fast track courts for cases that need least amount of speed and ideally the accused should languish in jails, and you have people languish in jails without being accused
Where the accused can get away with political connections, and then get into politics
Where one can rape and call it consensual sex
Where the girl child is still killed and married off as a child
Where it can boast of sending a rocket to the moon but cannot give a man a decent mode of transport
Where its scientist found water on the moon but cannot provide water to millions
Where there is contrast of people looking for a cure from obesity and people dying of starvation
Where politicians become moral teachers and dictate terms of austerity when the majority lives in austere conditions of deprivation of basic health, transport, and law.
Where a foreigner can marry into a family of politics and end up ruling the country
Where politicians can change names of streets and cities but cannot change the state of the city and its affairs
Where we claim to be a democracy but in reality is family ruled in the centre and the states like small kingdoms again ruled by families
Where reservation for education and jobs are given on basis of caste and creed and not on merit
Where it floods one part of the country and draught in the other, and no technology to divert the water, but we have plans to send a man to the moon, when you can’t sustain him on earth.
Where one can kill an endangered species of an animal and shamelessly walk around like an animal abusing the law
Where there are dry days to mark respect to deceased leaders or before election, but you can stock and be drunk the whole of that day and that is not a crime
Where blood is shed mercilessly in the name of religion and caste, and there is no blood in blood banks
Where babies are aborted or orphaned and at the same time we have the latest technologies to help childless couples
Where we call ourselves secular and have reservations for religious minorities
Where religion can govern marriages, inheritance and not a common civil code
Where religion gives you the right to carry an arm and not the law
Where religion gives you the right to marry multiple times and divorce, and not the law
Where you can change your religion to marry a second time
Where an artist can paint a Goddess nude and get with it as artistic liberty, and drown an idol of God after days of celebration as it is religion, and pollute the sea, pollute the air with firecrackers and pollute noise levels
Where you can pitch a slum and get it legalized and even get alternative accommodation later
Where Bangladeshis can infiltrate and get legal citizen rights with forged documents
Where one religion converts a deprived with food and basic needs, when aid is supposed to be
given by the government, and one accepts another faith in belief and not for food and medication
Where a language is forced as a national language when the majority doesn’t speak and ironically the majority speaks English
Where you cannot burn the national flag to protest but you can burn property, vandalize and destroy
Where political parties strength is judged by the amount of damage they can do and not the good they can do. That is besides the point none has done any good.
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