I wanted to write a blog for quite some time on the current state of affairs of Indian governance...I will take this post as a cumulative exercise adding to this post (as I find some interesting details), instead of a one time post... Here I go.
I was reading some article on Indian corruption and one statement caught my eyes. It reads like this and is a classic:
"I am not as educated as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Yet, I can run the house much more efficiently than the way they are running this country" - Dipali Mahapatra (Homemaker)
Another one reads like this...
"I would have to stop sending my 7-year-old son to school from next month as my priority at the moment is to provide food for the family" - Ram Prasad Mondal(Vegetable vendor)
Just give a moment to the above statements....
These are very serious statements from people who come from the biggest group in India - THE POORS!!!
Mr.Prime Minister, being a sensible man would listen to what these guys are saying and do something about it.
Cumulative details 1 (Added on Feb 1,2011) .....
Why the wrath of the common man cannot be left unattended for a long time? The answer lies in the current state of affairs in the Arab world. The common man was ignored for 20 something years there. The trigger - Tunisian crisis - was itself triggered by the apathy of the common man. A fruit vendor (like our own Ram Prasad Mondal as referred to above) burnt himself alive because of the high handedness of the government and its officials. And the result shook not just Tunisia but the entire Arab world - Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen....
More details on Tunisian crisis here
The lesson to be learnt by our own politicians is simple. Don't ignore the common man (we prefer to call him the aam aadhmi)..
Cumulative details 2 (Added on Feb 15, 2011)....
Dr.Manmohan Singh (MMS) - The Indian Prime Minister. Every one calls him the saint, man of integrity and what not. But is integrity without accountability? Now consider a good hearted boss not knowing how to manage his team? That is what is happening. MMS - the good guys is not able to control his team. Its ironic that the most corrupt government of post independent India is lead by the person considered to be the most honest PM in post independent India.
But the point I want to discuss here is if MMS guilty of a moral corruption here? Its not like MMS did not know about 2G scam 3 years back when whole of India was screaming about the most obvious. And MMS, dismissed it with disregard. Did not even pay heed to the scream. Now CBI, its own puppet department says the same thing, as though something new is being said. MMS indeed is the weakest PM of independent India and there is no doubt about it. It goes on to show the country that we just don't need good people but good administrators. We made that mistake once in the form of Jawaharlal Nehru, who was a good person but not a good administrator. Some of Nehru's follies, India is still repenting.
To be continued.....
1 comment:
Hi Karthick,
Your thoughts are appreciated. Last 2 months i am in Germany. I don't think that German people are more intelligent than ours. Their Government is working for them. So they are leading a good quality of life. From my last visit to this country i was thinking why our country is not like this. After so much thinking (population, people driven by feelings, bad politics, no self-discipline etc.), i feel that the important reason is our Government and our election system (Politicians are elected by poor people, but they are having hidden agenda to help rich people or make so much money by any cause). For us, our Government is like our speed breaker or toll gate. Politicians (face of our Government) try to control us to make money and not allowing us to grow. I read somewhere somebody asked Narayana Moorthy from Infosys “What do you think our IT could have grown more than the current status if our Government would have done something good”, he answered “Knowingly or unknowingly they(Government) were not aware of this industry’s prospectus and not done anything specifically for this industry”
There was a dialogue in movie Guru. Dhirubai Ambani tells that when I initially came to Mumbai for starting my business, nobody has helped me and i knocked all the doors and came to this position. Now I started a company and my company is making money and Government is asking me to pay taxes (Excise duty, Customs duty & Income tax). As an literate person (knowing the basics of taxation) it may look very ignorant statement, but if you think, there is a lot of meaning into it.
Still thinking……………
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