It’s Wake Up Time
It has been 60 years since India became a republic, 60 years since we gifted ourselves the longest constitution in the world. We declared the union of India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic securing justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity to all its citizens and look at what we have done to it, what mockery we have made out of it.
We do have quite a many accolades to our credit to feel proud about. We are moving slowly and steadily on the path of economic growth. The penetration of internet has been increasing at a staggering rate of 700% since 2000. Our intellect is respected be it in terms of scientists or doctors, top management or software engineers, dancers or musicians, authors or chefs, artisans or designers and they all occupy coveted positions worldwide. We have a rich culture and heritage of which apparently we are all proud of.
Despite these achievements, we have left no stone unturned to tarnish our nation in every possible way. I am specifically using the word ‘we’ and not ‘they’ because each one of us is responsible in our own way in contributing positively or negatively to our national image. However, it has become a matter of habit for us to take others’ credit and burden others with our wrongdoings. Shunning responsibility has become our second nature.
We are a nation of 1.2 billion who cannot govern itself properly. We elect politicians who are too busy filling their own pockets and making foreign trips to take any concrete action on issues of national concern. Our borders are so porous and security system so dismal that anybody can enter our territory at his or her own free will making a passport or a visa redundant. Our inter-departmental coordination is so remarkable that a handful of goons go about bombing places and taking the entire nation in its toll and all we do is sit back and play the blame game.
Instead of performing duties properly we have politicians who are busy thrashing and driving north Indians away from Maharashtra as they are an ‘obstruction’ to the development of the state. We are a nation where these politicians instigate illiterate populace and ‘organize’ communal riots. We cannot protect our citizens but our good-for-nothing politicians enjoy z-security.
It is not only these politicians who contribute to make India the 74th most corrupt nation in the world. There are people like Ketan Parekh and Harshad Mehta who create huge stock market scams. More recently we have corporates like Ramalinga Raju of Satyam who has tarred the image of corporate India by masterminding an accounting scandal of 7000 crore rupees but he is not to be blamed alone; what about the auditors and the board of directors who were supposed to keep a close watch on the company affairs?
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