India shining or India sinking?
Today’s newspaper, ( the TOI again!) carries an article by Pritish Nandy. “A ship about to sink” appears , not in the main section, but in the B T supplement under “Leisure”, (of all things). Serious readers may have missed this beautiful piece. In my opinion, the article should have found place on the front page, or at least the edit page. But that is TOI. Now about the article. The writer talks of the unbridled corruption in the nation’s polity. The Indian Political Philharmonic Orchestra must be the world’s most amazing cacophony of rouges, rascals and robbers. Couldn’t be truer. Ofcourse the choice epithets remind you what Winston Churchill in his hubris said before independence, power was being handed over to a set of rascals, thieves and men of straw. Nandy’s piece merits reading by all Indians. Reminds what Gandhi said about Katherine Mayo’s book. “A gutter inspector’s report” , but to be read only by Indians. Coming to the fundamental question. Is India shining, or sinking? The eminent 98 year old Kannada litterateur, Prof G. Venkatasubbiah in a recent interview was asked whether he had hope for the country. He said as things could not be worse than what it is now, it can only get better. India will rise. That is the message.
Now that I am back in India, I am sure it will rise and shine :)
ReplyDeleteHow can India be shining when there are politicians like Jayalalitha, Karunanidhi power and openly flaunting their wrongly-obtained wealth? What is the use of a CVC or an Election Commissioner? How can a commoner even think of standing for elections if he can't provide free TVs/laptops/fans to the voters now that these two have made it a trend?
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