Monday, April 08, 2013
Should we defecate in your plate?
Gets one wondering on the birth of Ajit Pawar and for that matter most of the Indian Politicians. The only conclusion is that none of them could have been intended children and ‘they just came’. To make it worse they even came into politics and made the life of the average Indian a hell to live in. Yes their births could have been unintended but their coming to power is our mistake, and we deserve what we are getting. Sheila Dixit another minister once remarked "In Rs 600 (approx 11 USD) a month, a family could get dal, rice and wheat. A family of five can easily complete their needs." These are the politicians we vote for. For most of the years after Independence it has been the Congress in power, either on their own or through coalition of parties that has kept them in power. Current coalition titled United Progressive Alliance (UPA), leaving one finding hard to see the progress if any? It definitely has been a United Profiteering Alliance, where the ugly sums of money swindled through scams has profited the Alliance.
Can understand kingdoms in the Middle East being ruled by one family, or dictatorial rulers like Saddam or a Gaddafi or Kim Jong-Un, but how come dynastic and dictatorial ruling still happening in India, in the garb of democracy? Congress Party and many other parties are dynastic families ruling (read ruining) the nation. Parties like Shiv Sena or a Samajwadi Party and many more have a dictatorial style of functioning where they rule instilling fear and through violence.
Where and why are we going wrong? Anything, anyone or any institution cannot be challenged or questioned. Employees in Government institution are literally ‘government servants’. Police, Law, CBI and any other governmental body acts like a servant to the government in power who abuse their authority to serve the people, who end up abusing people. Whistle blowers are killed further instilling fear in the common man to stand up to his rights. A visit to a Police Station is more fearsome and humiliating than the crime the victim faced and wants to report.
Recent political debates have turned to how India should be addressed. Congress addresses it as a beehive. BJP feels it should be addressed as a Mother. Then we have how names cities should be addressed, like Bombay to Mumbai, Bangalore to Bangaluru, from Madras to Chennai, and the list is endless. No one wants to explain how an Indian should be addressed. Women are raped, and there is nothing to address it. Even worse Mumbai terrorist attack was remarked by a Minister saying such small incidents do happen in big cities. If a terrorist attack is a small incident, then rapes should be insignificant. If soldiers defending our country have their heads decapitated by Pakistani soldiers, we cannot even get their heads back. What head can one hold high and be proud to say I am an Indian.
We are forced to learn and memorise the national anthem and the pledge in school, where it states all Indians are my brothers and sisters and today a farmer brother who is protesting for drought with a hunger strike is humiliated asking if there is no water should one urinate in the dam. Tomorrow it could be another brother protesting a famine and no food in his plate and a politician make ask him “Should we defecate in your plate”.
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Sunny, Thanks for that piece. Wish, some day we d read u in some reputed New paper/Magazine. Yet, the issue is so complex........
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