The great Indian Dream

Back in 1947 when India got its freedom there was a wave of new hope and enthusiasm among its citizen, a strong feeling of oneness and a new mission to be accomplished. In those days India was in the hands of credible politicians, who had themselves travailed to make India free. They had a vision. But as always, what India has always portrayed as its strength, its diversity, turned out to be one of its major weakness. With myriad of opinion about myriad of problems that India faced, to come out with a solution is not a trivial matter. Change was necessary and change takes time.

It was during that time, India fell into the hand of politicians, majority of whom were irresponsible, lacked vision and were there only to fill their own pockets. Thus, corruption got into the system, and since then we haven't been able to recover from it. It was these leaders, who just wanted a vote bank. They used the religious and cultural diversity of this country to divide them, to win votes. They instigated groups against each other, for nothing but a chair which in itself is a source of money. Everything boils down to power and money. They cared not two bits about the country.

Numerous examples of irresponsible governance could be found from the post Independent history. The Babri Masjid demolition, a savage act instigated and supported by politicians. Trillion of rupees have been engulfed by these corrupt monsters. There narrow parochial attitude have led to India's bleak situation in terms of governance and administration. The bureaucrats, they make good policies, on paper all the five year plans look highly structured and beneficial and if implemented efficiently can solve most of the problems of India, including several sepratist movements, which are another nuisance. But the services are not delivered, the red tape eats away all the pulp and what reaches the multitude are just the left outs.

Corruption levels in India are an embarrassment. The highly controversial CWG have caused a lot of shame in international media, not only the last minute arrangements being criticized, but also the scams and controversies that have shrouded the game's organization have tarnished the already not so good Indian image. The astronomical figure of taxpayers money that has been put into the games has gone into the pockets of Kalamadi and coworkers. Not only is this shameful but also outrageous to think that the money that could have fed the 46% hungry and malnourished Indian children will now be used for the luxury of his Highness Kalmadi.

Even after all this misguidance it turns out that India has been able to do decent, at least the ever increasing GDP promises a prosperous future. With the surge of industrialization and growth of private sectors, it seems that things would turn out fine. The ethics and honesty prevalent in the private sector is praiseworthy and bureaucracy needs to learn a good lesson from them. Also, it seems Indians are learning from the history. The surprising absence of any major opposition from the masses aftrer the ayodhoya verdict, it seems that the multitude is rising above these parochial issues and have become more ambitious. What is sad though are the regressive attitude from political parties, who don't seem to get satisfied after all the bloodshed and hatred they have already caused. Still, they are adamant to play politics on thease sensitive issues. I hope the masses remain calm and prove me right and the politicians, well they are hopeless.

We really need good rich honest politicians.