We all were made to learn a pledge when we were in junior classes - India is my motherland and i regard all indians as my brothers and sisters, i love my country and i`m proud of her rich and varied heritage....As an indian i am very much proud of my country`s rich heritage, but the fact that does`nt makes me proud is the one characteristic that can be found in all - we all are a part of the blame game.We always somehow or the other are able to find someone on whom we can transfer the blame. Be it the Government, an organisation or an individual.
World War II ended in 1945 and the post war condition of the European countries was even worse than pathetic. Their economies were shattered and in Germany one loaf of bread cost a bag of money. But Germany of today has undergone a complete transformation. They have collected the pieces and rebuilt their nation. All those prementioned countries are world powers today with their economies soaring high . India achieved its independence just two years after the prementioned war and just a fornight ago we celebrated 60 years to the 'Freedom at midnight`. We had and have much more resources, man power and land than those european countries but in these six decades what have we achieved?? Many say that we started from zero (the very beginning) and thats the reason why we are lagging behind, but let me remind them that the countries i mentioned earlier started from much below zero (their post war conditions were even worse than ours). Countries which are not even 1/10 th the size of our one state (for example Malaysia) are ahead of us by leaps and bounds (that too in a span of fifteen years) why?? how??
Few of us blame the government, politicians and our corrupt system responsible for our present condition, but we have to understand that these politicians are up there because many of us dont even take the pain to go and vote(That is the only time when the ball is in our court, but we choose to let it go and later blame the government).
It is we the people of india who constitute that corrupt system.
The bureaucrats and the goverment officials -the ones blamed for the corrupt system are a part of our society, so what needs to be changed is OUR mind set.
We today desire the scenario of the country to change, but are we ready to change?? Breaking laws is like in our blood or may be its our birth right.
How many of us wear an Helmet on two wheelers? i dont
How many of us drive at 40km\hr ? I`m always above 60.
How many of us have given an exam for our driving liecense?
These are very tiny and unimportant examples when we talk of national interests, but the point is that we still blame the authorities responsible for the above mentioned acts of ours. We all think of roads as a big garbage dump and then hold the muncipal body responsible for its condition.
Oil for food scam - Congress blames Natwar Singh (though all of us know who is the one responsible)
The case of the terrorists who were appointed for PM`s security ...the Delhi police and the SPG blames one another.
The farmers commit suicide , people blame the government, government blames the rains, the rains could`nt blame anyone.
When the government sanctioned money for these poor farmers it actually did`nt reach them because of the middlemen(who again are one among us)
Even Rajiv Gandhi said that ' IF I sanction a rupee for my people, then what reaches them is 10 paise`. Again the middlemen doing their job.
The price of petroleum is touching the sky, the Government holds the world prices responsible, but our prices only accompany the world oil prices on the ascendent journey but never on the way down. It is now that the world prices are going high , but for so many years the goverment has been taxing the common man to cover up their own extravagances (20 cars per VIP caval cade), spending a crore rupees on a months tea by a state, and jaunts abroad on the slightest pretext.
All of us say "Is desh ka kuch nahi ho sakta" ...yeah right kuch nahi ho sakta, unless we do something and when are we planning to change things??
All of us say "Is desh ka kuch nahi ho sakta" ...yeah right kuch nahi ho sakta, unless we do something and when are we planning to change things??
What are we waiting for- Gods reincarnation??
Why do we indians are in the habbit of bowing down and tolerating things??
Why to just wait for the saturation point and then wake up??(like in the case of the Britishers, a few thousand men ruled over lakhs of us and that too for 200 years).
Why do we have the 'Chalta Hai` attitude??
As shahrukh Khan said in Phir bhi dil hai hindustani-"Mera desh mahan, siruf sochne aur bolne se nahi hota"We have to make an effort to make it mahan.
What makes our 'Desh mahan` today? Population?? Unemployment?? Corruption?? Highest Crime rate??or the sleeping population for whom everything just `Chalta Hai`.
"There are two ways of living, one is to close your eyes and leave things as they are, or second to take the responsibility and change things" -from Rang de basanti
"You must be the change you want to see in this world" - Mahatama Gandhi
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