India has been named time and again amongst the most corrupt and lawless nations in the world , a little above the poverty stricken African countries. We boast of our Nobel laureates, our intelligentsia, our Harvard and Oxford educated bureaucrats and politicians , our Wharton and Ivy league educated industrialists, our Columbia and Cambridge educated Media and Paper Journalists. Yet we are incapable of eradicating the rot that has been eating into our systems and society. Why do we chose to be quite when we see the corrupt amongst us accumulating wealth by siphoning off the public assets and cheating the nation of taxes?
Is it because, we have been taught to be polite or is it because we are simply cowards who would shy away from anything unpleasant or run away when we see an accident or a dyeing person on the street for the fear of being haunted by the police? Why do we overlook when we see goons and rowdy teasing women and when children are fondled by uncouth paedophiles ?
Is it because of the little or no implementation of the laws of the land that makes us afraid of speaking against the evils and intimidating devils of our society? Or is the nexus between the Politicians-underworld-builders-bureaucrats-police and the media that makes us afraid of speaking our mind?
Why do our leaders hesitate from doing some plain speaking with Americans on the issue of Indian citizens being radio tagged, irrespective of the traps they have fallen into? They are Indians first and then the students and it is the responsibility of the Indian Government to bring them back if they have done no crime.Why does our media allows the American Counsel General to get away by calling the radio tags being trendy and hip ( Sic) ? Why do we shy away from refusing Visas to Chinese that come to India from the Autonomous Tibet Region or border areas of China with India ? Do you think Americans or Chinese would have behaved in the manner our government has reacted to the radio tagging of Indian students?
Why do our highly informed politicians , industrialists and self styled experts chose to speak so eloquently in their acquired foreign accents in Davos but ignore or brush aside our journalists at home ? Why do only a handful of media speaks on behalf of the entire journalist community?
Why do our socialist and communist leaders speak in hushed tones in the parliament and yet go out and support the Maoists and Naxalites who trap and kill our Jawans, who are simply doing their duty? Why do our rightist leaders speak of Hindu Rashtra when millions of Hindus are stricken with poverty and enslaved by the rightist supported money lenders ? Why are the sane and sincere voices that wish to bring harmony in the country are hounded by the fundamentalists? why do the missionaries convert the helpless tribals and dissidents in the name of progress and yet encouraging primitive and mid-evil practices amongst the converts?
It is said " meek shall inherit the earth" but definitely not India. It is reserved for the corrupt.
And much more, so on and so forth.
The question is why, why and why ?
Have we become a nation of afraid ?
Its time we did some plain speaking and make ourselves heard without being abusive or violent, isn't it ?
