So we come to the other side of the moon. I think I can safely say that for the last few months rape has been on our glorious national agenda. States are giving each other a run for the money in rape counts and degrees of brutality. While these are the main features of the day, additional entertainment has been arranged by many politicians and their pet goons and lawyers- some of them openly justifying these crimes. Of course rape is not a crime in their minds so they can't fathom what the heck all this hue and cry is for. Or, is there another reason why they are not even pretending to condemn these incidents?
Douglas Adams in his infinite wisdom said that any politician that is capable of getting themselves elected for a state position is manipulative to such a degree that they should never be allowed to hold the positions. Being a graduate student of economics, I have been trained to make educated and realistic assumptions so if you don't mind I would go ahead and assume that people involved in active poitics in our country are guided by their own vested interests and not by any higher philosophy. This simplifies matter quite considerably. The entente cordiale between the politicians and the general criminals is not something I need to expand on here. By protecting the criminals so that their muscle power can be used to coerce election outcomes our politicians are not only undermining the democracy but also are actively destroying human rights and with that every single chance our society and economy had to prosper. Dysfunctions are being maintained and fostered so that common people get no chance to even think about what they are missing out on or whether their rights are being violated on a daily basis.
On that note, while we could go on bashing the politicians and act all high and mighty let us not forget what we do inside our own homes. It's important to pay attention to how we treat each other even within our family structures. I personally know people who would have committed female foeticide had their baby been a girl. We are talking big cities here, not village. I don't want Matrubhoomi to become a reality. Heck, even our famous film industry runs on mafia money and no points for guessing correctly what kind of life principles they promote.
What's even more painful to watch is that these dysfunctions include and are not limited to what our society considers valuable these days. Running after the mythical eight percent growth and destroying natural, cultural and human resources creates nothing but a country full of rational fools Amartya Sen warned us against. In so many ways we are racing to the bottom. The end of Yaduvansh is happening all over again and we are probably watching with as much interest as we would show to a car crash on a giant silent screen - except this time some of us might be in the car.
Douglas Adams in his infinite wisdom said that any politician that is capable of getting themselves elected for a state position is manipulative to such a degree that they should never be allowed to hold the positions. Being a graduate student of economics, I have been trained to make educated and realistic assumptions so if you don't mind I would go ahead and assume that people involved in active poitics in our country are guided by their own vested interests and not by any higher philosophy. This simplifies matter quite considerably. The entente cordiale between the politicians and the general criminals is not something I need to expand on here. By protecting the criminals so that their muscle power can be used to coerce election outcomes our politicians are not only undermining the democracy but also are actively destroying human rights and with that every single chance our society and economy had to prosper. Dysfunctions are being maintained and fostered so that common people get no chance to even think about what they are missing out on or whether their rights are being violated on a daily basis.
On that note, while we could go on bashing the politicians and act all high and mighty let us not forget what we do inside our own homes. It's important to pay attention to how we treat each other even within our family structures. I personally know people who would have committed female foeticide had their baby been a girl. We are talking big cities here, not village. I don't want Matrubhoomi to become a reality. Heck, even our famous film industry runs on mafia money and no points for guessing correctly what kind of life principles they promote.
What's even more painful to watch is that these dysfunctions include and are not limited to what our society considers valuable these days. Running after the mythical eight percent growth and destroying natural, cultural and human resources creates nothing but a country full of rational fools Amartya Sen warned us against. In so many ways we are racing to the bottom. The end of Yaduvansh is happening all over again and we are probably watching with as much interest as we would show to a car crash on a giant silent screen - except this time some of us might be in the car.
