Happy Independence Day?

We are a free country! Or we say so...... But in my view these are sixty six years of freedom but not independence. There's still so much that ails this country. More annoying is that we don’t do anything even when we are aware of the issues.

After a bloody struggle for independence did India get what she wanted?

Independence – Independence from slavery, poverty, Hunger, corruption, lawlessness? Or was it meant to be, Independence from Britishers only? 

We have an ever-burgeoning population, ever-increasing rates of inflation and to add on to it, an inflated amount of dissatisfaction. We need to get Independence from all these ailments.

India’s population stands at 1.27 billion and soon we will top the charts. Still there are no checks on it and it’s pretty difficult in an uneducated country like ours, where still children are considered ‘Bhagwan ki dain’, where buying a condom is considered to be a shameful act. We need freedom from such narrow mindedness.

Where are India’s daughters? In a country where majority of the gods are female, the sex ratio is astonishingly low; 940 girls for 1000 boys and in states like Punjab and Haryana its alarming 893:1000 and 880:1000. Can we call ourselves educated? With rape cases ever increasing and home abuse so common, can we say our girls are enjoying independence?

A survey conducted by Transparency International ranked India 94th on the corruption index. So much black money stashed in foreign accounts and never ending corruption charges on almost every politician. Today’s politicians follow Gandhi but the only Gandhi, imprinted on the currency note. And they say “Poverty is a state of mind”. With more than 20% of India’s population going hungry, is this just a state of mind? We need independence from such ministers.

Religion, supposed to unite and bind; but in our country we get only bloodshed, mass murder and wrath all on the name of religion. In a so called secular country there are countless riots on the name of religion. We are for sure free from the English but slaves to the politicians.

This is the land of lawlessness – Jumping a traffic signal, switching lanes without a signal, run over someone and you will get off scot-free because of your political status, women are raped and groped every passing minute – law and order is almost non-existing.... almost.

In my view it would have been great, if Indians would have freed themselves from these ailments, doesn’t matter under Britishers or present oppressors.

The Divided States of INDIA

Welcoming 29th state of India and many more to come

550 princely dominions were integrated into the Indian Union in 1956 and then new states were created on linguistic basis. And then the politics started…….

Telangana- They say now it will be easier to lead the place to prosperity. Have they studied the condition of the other new born states: Utrakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand…..???  All the states are almost at the same level as they were with their mother states.  No one has fared exceptionally great. If you talk about the division of prosperous Punjab, which happened many years back; it still remains an affluent state. So, you can’t tag its wealth to its division.

 Saying all this, doesn’t mean I am against smaller states. I believe smaller states are easy to develop. But here the division isn’t meant for development; infact it’s only politics, they are least concerned about the prosperity of the society. If it isn’t for politics, they wouldn’t be waiting for these issues to heat up till they blast and then act. If these politicians really want to work positively, then the first state which needs a division is Utter Pradesh, then Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Why they are not thinking about that; but no, they will wait for the issue to become more severe, they will wait for bloody protests; they will wait for the innocent killings, then they will divide the state on the name of development. And we, the MANGO people, as always will believe them. 

When Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966, from that day, these two states are fighting for Chandigarh and sharing of water resources. Even a stupid person can understand that these issues will never be resolved. Still in every election these issues are raised and people come on roads for the bloody protests. From last 3-4 years political parties were drawing undue advantage of Telangana issue; and in near future they will fight elections on the issues of Hyderabad, the newly carved UT. But nobody will care about the development of any of the two states or the common Hyderabad.

In my view, there should be a definitive program to have large number of states (35-40); but only for good governance and fast development not for political gimps. So, my dear Mango people do not arrogantly ask for different state but for the growth & development.