Incredible (indeed) India
Educated people say that there are many India and each reveals itself depending upon who you are and what you seek. There is an ancient India, rich and famous, full of anecdotes, an India where the sages were scripting the Kamsutra at a time when Europe was living on trees, wearing loin cloth and eating raw meat. Then there is an India which has been plundered, looted, burnt, destroyed, re built and ruled upon. Then there is an India which rose in revolt and emerged as a new entity on the world stage. India is supposedly known for its value system, culture, history, heritage, cuisine, languages and what not. A mini Cosmo world in itself. From all of this rose another India, the one we live in, breathe in, exist in, and die in.
No I do not want to write an essay on the so called "emerging India" or brIc india, or about India the nuclear state, or even about India the next to be super power... I am going to write about an India where I saw my sister being raped yesterday, my brother being stabbed, my mother being assaulted , my wife being sold....
Incredible India indeed! Here cows are worshipped while girls are gang raped, gallons of milk is poured on stones on a single night while thousands of kids go to bed hungry every single day, millions are under nourished while tonns of cereals rot in warehouses, a parliamentary democracy but where the reigns are tightly in the hands of a few, a legal and judiciary system which can be bought and sold like vegetables, an executive which is dysfunctional, an economy in ruins, a health system designed to kill, an education system which is designed to create a breed of morons, a government machinery which is a hot bed of corruption, murderers as chief ministers, rapists as lawyers, thieves as policemen, illiterate as heads of state and to crown it all a professor as prime minister....Nothing, absolutely nothing is right here. Each passing day brings in more bad news, newspapers are like crime gazettes, news channels like soap opera houses, all bought out by corporates. Everybody and everything is shallow, lacks credibility and worse no one can be trusted. Actually what is worse is the fact that we all know this and live with this and kind of pride ourselves of this pittance of an existence, we pride ourselves in jugaad which is nothing but going hand in gloves with every wrong doing we see around us... We accept everything, mostly everything that is wrong!
There is no India shining, or emerging or rising ... There is only an India that "so called" was! I shudder at the India my son and his sons will inherit. Diseased, corrupt, dysfunctional, evil, prejudiced, irrational, uneducated, bursting at the seems and yet while I write this article India sleeps.
No I am no crusader and I don't think I can change something that doesn't want to change... I just want out! At the earliest I just want out!
Educated people say that there are many India and each reveals itself depending upon who you are and what you seek. There is an ancient India, rich and famous, full of anecdotes, an India where the sages were scripting the Kamsutra at a time when Europe was living on trees, wearing loin cloth and eating raw meat. Then there is an India which has been plundered, looted, burnt, destroyed, re built and ruled upon. Then there is an India which rose in revolt and emerged as a new entity on the world stage. India is supposedly known for its value system, culture, history, heritage, cuisine, languages and what not. A mini Cosmo world in itself. From all of this rose another India, the one we live in, breathe in, exist in, and die in.
No I do not want to write an essay on the so called "emerging India" or brIc india, or about India the nuclear state, or even about India the next to be super power... I am going to write about an India where I saw my sister being raped yesterday, my brother being stabbed, my mother being assaulted , my wife being sold....
Incredible India indeed! Here cows are worshipped while girls are gang raped, gallons of milk is poured on stones on a single night while thousands of kids go to bed hungry every single day, millions are under nourished while tonns of cereals rot in warehouses, a parliamentary democracy but where the reigns are tightly in the hands of a few, a legal and judiciary system which can be bought and sold like vegetables, an executive which is dysfunctional, an economy in ruins, a health system designed to kill, an education system which is designed to create a breed of morons, a government machinery which is a hot bed of corruption, murderers as chief ministers, rapists as lawyers, thieves as policemen, illiterate as heads of state and to crown it all a professor as prime minister....Nothing, absolutely nothing is right here. Each passing day brings in more bad news, newspapers are like crime gazettes, news channels like soap opera houses, all bought out by corporates. Everybody and everything is shallow, lacks credibility and worse no one can be trusted. Actually what is worse is the fact that we all know this and live with this and kind of pride ourselves of this pittance of an existence, we pride ourselves in jugaad which is nothing but going hand in gloves with every wrong doing we see around us... We accept everything, mostly everything that is wrong!
There is no India shining, or emerging or rising ... There is only an India that "so called" was! I shudder at the India my son and his sons will inherit. Diseased, corrupt, dysfunctional, evil, prejudiced, irrational, uneducated, bursting at the seems and yet while I write this article India sleeps.
No I am no crusader and I don't think I can change something that doesn't want to change... I just want out! At the earliest I just want out!
