Another India: Depressing or Disgusting
Posted : May 10, 2010 at 4:01 am [IST]
I don’t know the reason. But suddenly I am going lethargic and perhaps to certain extent in different mode. I don’t feel like writing. I have not written regularly for last few days. Perhaps the overall situations all around and inside too are pretty disgusting.
The country’s politicians have put it in back gear last week. The census under progress will have to record the caste of each individual, and according to one estimate, there were 60,000 in number that would have further increased. The Yadav triumvirate succeeded in creating this high speed back gear scenario for the country. And no one has got the guts to stop that ‘divisive’ process, as PC is not Sardar. Man Mohan can’t do anything. Sonia and Swaraj can’t damage their party even if their stand damages the nation. Rahul has still not grown strong enough to take it up and oppose the caste ridden politics of the country. Even his young brigade may be divided on this issue otherwise, it wouldn’t have kept mum. I don’t know if he also believes in caste. The leaders of backward castes are busy in outwitting the forward castes that lack unity and leadership. And this is happening when the story of mythical Indian middle class is getting blurred with new definition of noted economist Nancy Birdsall. By this definition, India even urban India alone has no middle class; everyone at over $10 a day is in the top 5% of the country.
And then appears the frustrating story of Madhuri Gupta, 53, second secretary at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad who became an integral part of Pakistan intelligence’s operation for expensive gifts and regular cash payments. And how shameful it is to know that Ketan Desai, the president of Medical Council of India (MCI) who could take the medical education in India to make it rank among the top few of the world decided to loot to become the wealthiest through unscrupulous means?
Very rightly, the management guru C K Prahalad estimated the cost of corruption to the country exceeding Rs 250,000 crore (Rs 2,500 billion). I feel his figures might be on the lower side.
And there is no escape from this national misery, when shockingly a chief minster downplays 2G telecom scam against a minister from his party in central cabinet by using dalit card. Protecting a person has become more important than saving the nation from the politician leeches. And what can be more shocking than the report that ‘Niira Radia, a powerful lobbyist was instrumental in ensuring a cabinet berth for the DMK’s A. Raja’ against Maran?
And more shocking to me was a report of CBI probe into the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) scam after the arrest of its chairman Prof. R. A. Yadav in New Delhi: A professor from IIT Delhi submitted the wrong inspection report for allowing an institute to start an engineering college. 42 engineering colleges obtained AICTE’s permission “illegally” without having even basic infrastructure and facilities. For example, the same building was shown to AICTE’s expert committees three times to obtain approvals for three different engineering colleges. What will be the quality of education of these colleges? It will be interesting to have a study of the profiles of the entrepreneurs in the education sector.
For the whole of the week, I was stressed because of my decision to part with AJIRA and issues involved with that. It is a big decision of life and it required a lot of moral support from nearer ones in the family or the friends.
And perhaps that stress and a little deviation in food intake caused gastric problem and I had to get myself on hospital bed that I hate. I felt miserable for few days in last week. Lakshman Singh’s condition and the misery of Mrs. Singh had also been torturing.
I felt left out and I cursed the growing menace due to exponential growth of nuclear families.
Were not these reasons good enough for not writing my blogs regularly?
No, I have got up at 3 AM to make up.
- Indra
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