Of Scams and Sedition

It is pretty bad and unfortunate that India that boasts of its being world’s largest democracy is bent upon scuttling the freedom of thought. Is it not seditious economically when a large number of people, those who are in power and wield power as weapon have been involved in scams and scandals; not one but several and the government seems to be bent upon distracting the attention of the public by putting something else in the place of one. The country had not finished talking of CWG scam, when Raja’s 2G Spectrum scam appeared. Then came Adarsh Housing Society Scam and now the government has put another one i.e. LIC Housing Corp. and Realty sector scam. Those in the high ranks are immersed neck-deep quick sand of corruption. Yet they call themselves honest. One is not only protecting the other but also defending. Public money that goes up in the form of direct tax goes into waste. Can we afford such a government?

This is the country where Food and Agriculture Minister refuse to distribute food grain which being spoiled for want of proper storage, free to the poor on the one hand  and a  young man was arrested for stealing food grain from one such storage because his family had to go without food the past 15 days. It is shame. Is it not an act of sedition. Such people who have an anti people mindset, should be tried for sedition. A country is not a land mass on the globe of the earth but is made by the people who inhabit it.

A person who controls handful of goons holds a big state for ransom and issues threats in the name of language and culture in his own right and then interferes with the domestic problems of other states in the other parts of country. He does not allow any body to pass any comment on his doing but is more interested in imposing his whims and desires on others. Let people of a place come forward and decide their own fate in the larger interests. There is no room for petty politics and petty interests. Whether you like it or not, after all it should their own decision, no one person can influence the decision making of people who know how to fend for themselves. No country in the coming eras can have any number of simmering problems. Let us resolve all the issues. The world has already resolved its major issues and would soon resolve others also.

Remember, Berlin Wall was the major issue for the world that divided the whole globe into two factions. People’s will succeeded there. No problem in the world is bigger than that. Going by the parameters of problem solving, no problem is big if you are bent upon solving it. Otherwise, this Kashmir trouble admittedly has escalated into unrest, violence, terrorism and acrimony between the two communities. So expressing my opinion about problem solving and Kashmir problem and looking at it again from the parameters of problem solving skills, is not a seditious but a call for self introspection after 60 years of the trouble. How long can you take it on board? Problems need to be solved and they will be resolved, the sooner the better. How many people you want to die for it?

India as a region can emerge as a major and bigger economic power in the world, if both the countries resolve all their pending issues with a liberal attitude and start living like good brothers and share information in the field of science, agriculture, food grain management, human resource management, power and instead of spending billions on piling up weapons against each other, spend the money instead on education, health, infra-structure, power and energy. They belong to the same cultural basket. It is time they act more responsibly especially when the world is reeling under recession, it is high time to rise economically and wrest best deals for themselves from the world.

All issue pending in the last century should be resolved, it is better if you do it or else, the next generation who has no concern with what you thought in 1950 and in 1970 and in 1990 and 2010, will resolve them, because they are getting a global pattern of thinking. Remember, what you thought in the past centuries will be consigned to archives and new thinking will take over, soon. 21^st Century skills will look at the things in a different way. The parameters are changing, fast.