Will those good old days come back ??

VERY GOOD DREAM.

Let Women's Reservation Bill become the Act and then see the fun.

funny. But this is too much

We should not emagined this in the faintest of dreams.
 

We are taught that history repeats itself. If that were so, British, if not Moghuls, or Americans would bring back the good old days.

I know some friends would, in their misplaced zeal, call it traitorous. Do me a favour. Go to your old parents. If not, go to those who lived during British Raj. They will tell you that Zamindars tortured the poor landless. Moneylenders behaved like Shylock. There was poverty, hunger, disease, a school at the distance of 10 KM or more, girls denied education, no roads, electricity, piped water supply, no transport, no jobs.

In 1947, India’s population was 35 crores. On 1/7/2009, it stood at 112.98 crores. It is no mean achievement.

We made progress in exponential proportion. We built dams, thermal and nuclear power stations and laid transmission lines all over the country. Except for Mumbai, there is no city where load shedding is not resorted in some cases in excess of 12 hours).

In U.P. there were 3 Universities - Allahabad, BHU and Lucknow. From 52 districts, it has progressed to 70 and almost every district claims to have a University of its own producing scientists of great eminence.

We have spread the network of schools which have no furniture, no sheds, no drinking water, no toilets, no teachers and in some cases no students.

We have created public distribution system where no ration card holder goes and get ration but the entire quota is sold in the black market.

We have also created NOREGA, a much touted poverty alleviating programme where the poor labourers are given a pittance and the netas, babus and contractors wallop all the money running into lacs of crores.

We had a PM Rajiv Gandhi who made a great discovery that out of every rupee only 15 paise reached the people. That was said in 1985 (perhaps in Mumbai). In 20 years, we made tremendous progress and his son Rahul Gandhi added to that discovery that only 5 paise reached the poor.

In satellite towns of Mumbai (Vasai, Virar, Nala Sopara, Bhayander, Mira Road),  police became tanker owners and forced the population to buy water from tankers and prevented municipalities to supply piped water.

Sixty three years after independence, moneylenders still rule the roost. Suicide by farmers continue unabated and 60000 crores went down the drain. It went to the pockets of netas and babus.

BPL. Wonderful word for below poverty line. 63 years down the line and the number continues to count. Government has created a Frankenstein's Monster in the form of subsidy on petrol, diesel, cooking gas, fertilizer, Haj Pilgrims.

Open more medical colleges and Post Graduate Institutes of Medical Sciences where Minister Ramodoss’s writ will run and supreme court will have to intervene to lay him off. Where poor will be allowed to die on outside the gate without admission.

We have learnt to have live-in relationship, shunt out our parents, live in adultery, where 5 persons are sentenced to death in honour killing case and by evening another couple is killed, where the MLA supports such action, where we are told that we should not expect virgin girls, or boys or girls who did not have a past and affair, where partners are changed at the drop of a hat, where divorce cases keep mounting, where 498A and DV Act complaints are the order of the day, where joint family system has been given a decent burial, where an MP berates the Government in Parliament for rising prices and the Agriculture Minister keeps smiling, where lacs of imported tonnes of sugar is piled up in ports and sugar companies jack up prices 300% and the Minister says more increase should be expected, where his party chides us that we won’t die if we don’t eat sugar, where a home minister of Maharashtra says that small incidents of 26/11 terror attacks happen normally, is sacked and the brought back as Home Minister, where the CM is sacked and then promoted as a Central Minister.

Some people have grabbed the opportunity and made money they don’t look beyond their nose. To them, everything is hunky dory. To them, India represents the land of honey and milk. If the corruption is within the four corners of law, no court will touch the corrupt. Lalu’s case in disproportionate asset case is a case in point. Lalu is a minister and UPA govt won’t touch him with a barge pole because survival of the govt is of paramount importance. CBI is directed to keep mum. Bihar Govt appeals but assets may be disproportionate, but it has no locus standi. SC is God. That is why Lalu now says.

RTI Act, Right to Education Act, Women’s Reservation – good for drawing room discussion.

I am not a prophet of doom. But those who always speak of progress do not see the ground reality. At whose cost this progress? Who benefits? Where does our money go? Let the legal fraternity admit that the administration of criminal justice system has all but collapsed.

Let there be a balanced view point. Let us not gloss over our failings. Governments are elected to do good to the people. What is so big about beating their drums? They are not doing any favour to us. 

there will be no punctue in ur car tyre in future. in 21st century use tubeless  tyres.and both of u enjoy.B++++VE