We, the common people are destined to suffer, mutely. This is our fate and we have so very well learned to live with it. People who are capable of taking and implementing decisions that can make a difference are not responsible enough to actually make anything different. The big hoopla of the India Beaming and Shinning seems to like a big hoax to me. With anger and frustration within I read endless sagas of bigger and better scams hitting the news papers with the politicians smiling at the wake of their victory. I can sure say that we are fast developing in this one respect that every other scam is bigger than the previous one.
2010 can be marked as the year of scams with herculean magnanimity that not only effect the Indian demographics but take us to another level internationally. Days are not far when we would be known as the nation of scams, a shift for better from the nation of the largest population. Every big name, every person sitting on an influential position and every sharp mind is working towards finding out ways to create a fool proof scam scheme to rock the nation.
The list is not small, CWG, Sukna, Adarsh, 2G and what not. Defence, ministries, sports, business, media, bureaucrats all of them are engrossed and extremely busy in their lives revolving around these scams. And what the resultant is the common people suffering.
Why should we pay for onions more just because the government left it rotting in the godowns?
Why should we suffer a ‘bandh’ or a loss of public buses just because a certain party leader was found guilty of a scam and his party supports didn’t like the verdict?
Why should we be scared and sitting at home for safety just because few political leaders find it highly profitable to make two communities fight and rot to death?
Why should we face never ending governing discrepancies due to a lack of proper governance?
Why should we live our life adjusting to what is happening just because the government is oblivious of our plight, or pretends to be oblivious?
Why should we shut our shops and face heavy losses because someone has a problem with the language English?
Why should we change the course of our lives because someone is still thinking in the 18th century?
There are so many questions exploding in my mind, so much so that words are coming hard and thick. Someone long back told me, reading newspaper helps you create a broader perspective of what is happening around you. I say, if this is what is happening around me and if this is what the newspapers give me then I don’t want to have a broader perspective. I am happy in my ignorant world, atleast I am not enraged with the level of degraded souls operating our country.
