We seem to live at the worst of times in the world. I’ve heard people saying ‘you couldn’t have lived at a better time, these are the best times for the kind of opportunities and growth India in particular and the world in general is witnessing’.
I feel its one of the worst times we are living in, decades later when we shall look back and talk to our next generation, we’ll have to put our head down in front of them for the kind of things that are happening during our lifetime (specially during our youth). The country is building various foundations or examples at this point in time which may not only spoil our future but also the future of the generations to come.
This state (its capital specially) in the country attracts the most money from across the world for various sectors which majorly imply finance and entertainment. But there are few anti social elements (according to me they are anti social!) in this state that is against even their own brothers from the other states of the country to live and work peacefully. How does this country grow? They don’t let a person call the capital city by a name he likes to, they don’t let a person release his movie just cos he feels in a certain manner about certain things, and they don’t let the god of cricket claim that his country is first for him and not his city. What the hell to do they aspire? What do they think of themselves and their own people? They mustn’t forget that their state today is what it is not because of its own people; it is more because of people who have got together on their land from across the country and the world. If they decide to call it quits, not even a dog will pee in their state.
Last week the CM of this state came up with a disastrous proposal of creating reservation in education for students of their own state, and students who were either not born in this state or whose parents haven’t been living in this state for at least 15 years will have to fight for a place in the limited space available after the reserved seats irrespective of how good or bad they are vis a vis the other students. I just for the sake of it hate the word reservation at the first place! How the hell in this world are we supposed to breathe freely? There will supposedly one day be reservation even to breathe. What are those students going to do whose parents get shifted to this state for work by their respective organizations? Their capital attracts the maximum number of people from outside, what do they do? Is it just to ill treat outsiders and make them suffer and spoil their future like this? What about being fair in this globalized, competitive world? There was another proposal a few weeks back that said; to obtain a public driving license a person must be fluent in terms of reading and writing the local language of the state. How fair is this? Think about the hundreds of Indians who are taxi drivers abroad! What if those foreign countries ill treat our citizens like that when we ourselves are treating our citizens this way?
This was just about one state, now lets get to another state, this being the largest state of the country on various counts, attracting the largest number of members in the parliament. The CM of this state has been throwing away money like it grows on trees. Making a history, for herself and her party by building statues and what not of her own late leaders and herself by wasting crores of rupees that could have been used for various developmental activities to help bridge a lot of gaps in the state. Why isn’t she adhering to any constitutional body? Why no fear? Why can we as citizens do nothing but just watch such extravaganza? If this kind of waste of money was not worse enough, her party members have been garlanding her with crores worth of cash just for nothing. Why do we just read about this, talk about this for a couple of days and forget? How long will the judiciary and other powerful elements of our country remain corrupt and silent? Even after seeing such instances how come people still vote for such hypocrites? Our children will laugh on us because all this is happening during our lifetime! How will we face that moment, that day?
Talk about terrorism, we during our life time so far have seen almost a dozen blasts across the country, we have hardly been able to get hold of even a few of those masterminds, they keep repeating their acts time and again and even we forget the act over time (except for the friends and family of those who lost their lives). Some day it could be to one of us, none of us are prepared to face that day and neither do we want to prepare ourselves for such a day. 26/11 happened and one of the terrorist was caught red handed, but its been more than a year now since that fellow is being treated with respect and grace in our own prisons, he changes his statement every now and then and our courts tend to believe him every time. Don’t we trust the evidences available and our own officers who caught him red handed for us to be able to pronounce a judgment to punish him? His own country disowned him for once. He is playing around with the law of our country, his bosses must be making merry and encouraging more fellows into such crimes giving an example of this fellow saying ‘see nothing has happened to him, he is having the best life, good food, good protection and lots of amenities. Could there be a better life?’ why is a criminal of such big notoriety enjoying a damn respectful life? Such elements should be given the worst kind of punishments which act as an example for others to think a million times even before setting out for such inhumane acts! And I seem to have heard this inhumane soul has been getting amenities inside the prison in terms of human rights and so on, there can’t be a bigger joke in this country in our life times.
There are lots of other such gruesome things happening around us in the world, these were just the top of mind recall ones on which we almost have lost hope and sight. So I firmly believe we are living in the worst era possible in this part of the world. Where will money and opportunity get you while such freighting things keep you worried all day and night!! I’ve lost hope of a good life in this world at least as of now..
Today’s Favorite Line – Music is the best soother, through weakness and strength, happiness and sorrow, for better or for worse it will always be there for you.
Today’s Favorite Song – Waiting on the world to change (John Mayer)
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