I dare call India, a state of many monarchies. I agree that we have elections once every 5 years which are bought on the basis of biryani and some blankets, but what happens in between those 5 years is nothing close to Democracy. We have a political party which should be better known as Gandhi pvt. ltd., another which supports radicalism and many more which are born and based on thugs and dacoits. These people rule the roost, spend national assets, try to divide people based on caste and religion and shadow it all in the name of democracy and the so called supreme parliament. The agitation for Lokpal bill is a classic example, where even though we saw the middle class and the old man, Anna Hazare sweat it out, all that the political class could come up with was a debate in the parliament which said that we(parliament) are supreme, we will do what we want, you guys can keep ranting or ridiculing us on media.
A look at the political parties brings back the memories of the monarchs that ruled India pre-Independence. Congress can't dare to think beyond the Gandhis, DMK has its own monarchy with Karunanidhi who has kept up with the tradition of a king with many wives. Mulayam Singh, Late. MadhavRao Sindhia,Late Rajesh Pilot,Pratibha Patil, Late YSR Reddy all have their sons/daughters in politics. The only saving grace here is the BJP which hasn't followed this trend yet. Also, I must thank Narendra Modi, Didi(Mamta Banerjee), Amma(Jayalalitha) and Mayawati for not finding suitable matches when they were young. Regardless of the monarchy, most of them are run with the support of/by local thugs, who aspire to become MPs or MLAs one day. A resume with many murders and rapes would be perfect to become a politician.
Talking about the media which is supposed to be the fourth pillar of democracy, instead acts like the fourth pillar of the parliament. All primetime shows are parliamentary type debates moderated by Darth Vaders(star wars anyone?) such as Arnab Goswami. The funny part about all these debates are that you can listen to the same tunes in all the news channels because its the same politicians that flock from one channel to the next. Since when did moderating debates become part of news reporting?
The result is pretty clear, India is far behind in all kinds of indexes, be it poverty,literacy, human rights,women empowerment , infrastructure etc. The growth India has experienced is entirely due to personal efforts of the people(middle-class) who are just fed up of expecting anything from the government. Classic example is the suburb of Delhi; Gurgaon. The total lack of governance in this part of the city is made up with personal efforts like generators for electricity, personal taxis for transportation, private security guards for security etc. The reason for low voter turnouts in the urban areas can be traced to this very reason. We have created our own mini India. Those who are still expecting free grains, free electricity to run their pumps and other incentives ,constitute the backward sections of the society. These people constitute the majority of the voter turnouts. Hunger and poverty drives them to beg/plead for the basic necessities from the government. Meanwhile, the government is busy in improving its statistics by lowering the below poverty line bracket to Rs26/day. I dare Sonia Gandhi to leave her mansions and try to live on Rs.26 for a day.
PS: Why do we have a mannequin in place of a Prime Minister?
A look at the political parties brings back the memories of the monarchs that ruled India pre-Independence. Congress can't dare to think beyond the Gandhis, DMK has its own monarchy with Karunanidhi who has kept up with the tradition of a king with many wives. Mulayam Singh, Late. MadhavRao Sindhia,Late Rajesh Pilot,Pratibha Patil, Late YSR Reddy all have their sons/daughters in politics. The only saving grace here is the BJP which hasn't followed this trend yet. Also, I must thank Narendra Modi, Didi(Mamta Banerjee), Amma(Jayalalitha) and Mayawati for not finding suitable matches when they were young. Regardless of the monarchy, most of them are run with the support of/by local thugs, who aspire to become MPs or MLAs one day. A resume with many murders and rapes would be perfect to become a politician.
Talking about the media which is supposed to be the fourth pillar of democracy, instead acts like the fourth pillar of the parliament. All primetime shows are parliamentary type debates moderated by Darth Vaders(star wars anyone?) such as Arnab Goswami. The funny part about all these debates are that you can listen to the same tunes in all the news channels because its the same politicians that flock from one channel to the next. Since when did moderating debates become part of news reporting?
The result is pretty clear, India is far behind in all kinds of indexes, be it poverty,literacy, human rights,women empowerment , infrastructure etc. The growth India has experienced is entirely due to personal efforts of the people(middle-class) who are just fed up of expecting anything from the government. Classic example is the suburb of Delhi; Gurgaon. The total lack of governance in this part of the city is made up with personal efforts like generators for electricity, personal taxis for transportation, private security guards for security etc. The reason for low voter turnouts in the urban areas can be traced to this very reason. We have created our own mini India. Those who are still expecting free grains, free electricity to run their pumps and other incentives ,constitute the backward sections of the society. These people constitute the majority of the voter turnouts. Hunger and poverty drives them to beg/plead for the basic necessities from the government. Meanwhile, the government is busy in improving its statistics by lowering the below poverty line bracket to Rs26/day. I dare Sonia Gandhi to leave her mansions and try to live on Rs.26 for a day.
PS: Why do we have a mannequin in place of a Prime Minister?
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