IT'S TIME TO UNFURL THE RAGE!!

 “Please keep your mobile on Manmohan Mode”

 If you live in, near or even know the current happenings in India, then you can definitely understand the above punchline. It is telling that such quotes have become a bitter way of explaining the current Indian affairs. India is known as the world’s largest democracy, but the current government has repeatedly behaved as a monarch when the matters have gone out of their hands. It has already made mockery of democracy by holding people protesting non-violently in jail, ending a hunger strike to ‘Bring back the black money’ by world renowned yoga guru using extreme force and prior to that the silence of our prime minister and no valid explanation given for the unending corruption scams. 

The government is steering a ship which has sprung many leaks. Yet, the simple concept that one cannot establish democracy unless the government respects people’s rights eludes it. By ignoring the public in the haste of filling their own Swiss accounts, the politicians have fuelled this rage and fervor.  Today as I passed through India Gate, I saw throngs of people on bikes, cars, on foot waving Indian flags, with passion on their face and anger in their hearts. The picture is enough to guess that all is not well in India. It has been estimated that there is almost $1500 billion in black money in the Swiss banks, 13 times the foreign debt that India owes! It is enough to tell all about the plague of corruption in India. Infact, India would have been a developed country years before and at par with China and America now, if our politicians had been somewhat ‘honest’, a word missing from their lexicon.

The fastest growing sector in India is not IT or software, textiles or automobiles. It is INEQUALITY that has grown faster than at any other time since Independence. And at a sensational pace, this past decade as the divide between the rich and the poor has constantly widened.

So after all the facts and figures I cannot find it in my heart to say that India still shines and remains incredible because of its rich culture and diversity. The culture doesn’t give people protection, Diversity doesn’t help if India houses a third of the world’s poor! A nation where terror attacks occurs almost every year. And the appalling thing is that they have become so clichéd that nobody now bats an eye if less than 50 people die in a calamity. How can then we still revel in past and be smug about our heritage, when the future of the nation is jeopardized?

It is time for a change to help India reach the pinnacle it truly deserves by utilizing all the incredible resources and manpower. We have to demand the answers from the regime as the Father of the Nation said- To do Injustice is a Sin- but to Tolerate Injustice is a bigger Sin. And one man is doing exactly that! 

A few may say that you cannot blackmail the government like this, but when the Govt. pushes beyond a certain limit, it has no right to criticize...I believe every Indian supports the motive and intention behind HAZARE's Fast, and hoping for a change... 

I salute the man with all due respect!

P.S.- Have you read this?  http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/16056344  Do you think Indian Govt. has guts to do this.. Oh but how can they! Aren't we talking about their own hidden stashes here.. :-?