Today, when I attempted to put a pen down to script ‘My
Thoughts’, I never knew what point to start with. Some people may obviously
judge after reading that I am in some sort of depression or anger while I am
writing this down, but I have decided to share this after consistent research(
in my day to day life). Even then if you feel the other way, just try answering
these questions, and after that ask your conscience whether I am the only so
called pessimist here.
1) Do you ever think the (so)
much Hyped Lokpal bill will be passed the way we intend it to pass?(whatever
the Government is, NDA or UPA)
2) Did you ever go to a MRO
office and have got a work done without bribing even a peon?
3) Did you ever happen to
visit a Government Hospital and see it’s facilties?
And finally the final question
4) Does this list not go
unending??
When I was talking to someone the other day, he says
implementation of technology can bring down corruption and add transparency to
the system, try answering this question-
è Did you ever try to book a ticket online in Tatkal or at
least at the reservation office?(If you think that you are not able to book
them just because the server is slow, GROW UP)
The list goes unending.. Now let’s consider some words of an
Optimist, Genius and a man who made this Nation proud- Abdul Kalam.
“Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so
embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a
great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to
acknowledge them. Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one
in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We
are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has
transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There
are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad
news and failures and disasters.---etc ., etc--I was in Hyderabad giving this
lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what
her goal in life is: She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her,
you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is
not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.”
My answers to his questions-
When everything is negative here, why will the media not be?
So what are we doing with our strengths? Looting
others…Ain’t it?
We are the first in Milk Production..True..but is the milk
sufficient even for us?
Remote sensing is a joke in India..just used to loot all the
minerals from this Land. (any doubts, refer KG BASIN SCAM)
Wheat, rice….are they sufficient for our own population?
For a nation whose boundary stretches from Kashmir to
Kanyakumari, there will be some stories which will seem to be good. But is it
not fact that there are exceptions for everything?
I will always remember the famous dialogue “if you donate a
lakh to a beggar, he will beg in a golden bowl.”
I have to share an incident which happened in a city bus
while I am commuting. I offered a seat to an elderly lady standing just beside
me. After some stops, the one sitting beside the lady left. The lady started
calling her son standing beside me to sit beside her. At that point of time, I
could do nothing but ROFL. Let alone me, I can understand that lady. But if
that ever happens to some other guy, will he ever help anyone else? And
to the core, are these people really fit to be helped?
Am I still trying to be pessimistic?? Ok..lemme narrate a
few more examples. I pay 30% of my income as tax to ply on a pot holed road.
For each and everything I buy, there is an indirect tax levied and so is the
case with my cell phone. After I lost it, I complained it in the nearby police
station, the reply was shocking, “we don’t take cell phone theft cases, there
are enough already. You should take care of your cell” as if I have lost my
phone just as a part of a game. Then why the bloody hell am I paying the taxes
for?
The other day I had an argument with a friend on this topic
and she says, “first be perfect yourself”. I said I follow the traffic rules, I
always abide by the rules laid down, I pay my taxes, I vote. What else do you
expect me to do??
TAKE SANYASA and Preach the nation??” like the so called
Baba’s .
I will always vote, but am I not being given a choice
between deaf, dumb and blind to rule us? Whom should I vote for now?
When I refer and read many blogs about tourism in India, the
foreigners say that anyone from the west should visit India at least once, to
respect their homeland and stop complaining about their own nation.
Perhaps, Churchill was right when he said that Indians are
unfit to be independent. For us, democracy is just Alien. We are 60 odd years
into democracy and still we fail to realize the intricacies of it. We are unfit
to rule ourselves. We work at our best only when we are slaves.(Doubts??
Compare any Government sector with the Software Industry)
If it is anything that India had achieved over the past 60
years, it is only that it has managed to not rip itself apart successfully and
become a 100 nations.
Finally, I always had a wish to do something for my Nation
inspired by all the literature I read while growing up. But, practically are my
efforts really worthy for these people, however small they are?
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