Though I think I am too small in there scheme to ask questions, I would nevertheless like to ask a question. Why did RSS not condemn the attack on Samjhauta Express.
The only thing I heard was equal compensation for some other train victims. I mean how can they even think like this. These people were Indian guest and were killed due to our irresponsibilty. Period.
Thinking them as Muslims is perhaps idiotic. That goes against the very ingrains of Indianness that we think off.
I am not planning to write long on this, just waiting for comments and then I will write again.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Why do we need a govt ??
Why do we need government.
Ever thought about it ? It has been something we take for granted. It has to be there. It has to be there for a civil society , it has to be there for sorting out things , it has to be there because it has to be there. Sadly the third is perhaps the most common of the answers we give to oursleves. Atleast in India. Governemt to us is something we try and aboid, to the greatest extent possible. Even as kids we are taught to avoi the police man, as we grow up this apathy increases. Given a choice would you live in a governemnt flat or a designer aprtment. Sadly for most of us govenment is about inefficiecy, corruption, apathy , everything negative that we can think of. It is something we can do without. Or would love to do without.
But is government that useless an entity ? Perhaps an answer to this can be sought in the havocs that not having an efficinet governmanet can create. You have been saving all your life for an apartment. Paying the EMI through your hard earned money or 15-20 years. Killing the small desires for the one dream. This did not ave anything to do with government. It was built by the top notch builder. Electricity, water, sewage everything is private. And then one day when you are in office someone else bribes someone to acquire that. That's the need of governement. Take the same apartment once more. A small bomb planted somewhere in the aprtment can bring it to ashes. Simply because the redundant government was sleeping. What happens than. Your dream of years is out to ashes. Would you be able to dream again in life after that.
And that perhaps in my views is the reason for government. To let its citizens dream. And to take steps to preserve dreams. To nurture them, to cultivate them. This is preaps what seperates developed nations from others. The governemtn has to give the citizens assurance that there dreams would be protected. Not distroyed because someone was bribed. Not destroyed because someone else wanted to distroy them. Not distroyed because the furtile ground for dreams is no longer there.
Now moving on Indian model of governance. Would the relatives of those killed in Gujrat be able to have dreams. To have dreams you NEED to have sleep. And if the sleep is disturbed by nightmares you can not have dreams. And yet no Indian politican of name has ever resigned because of that. Can you dream if you are living in a slum. May be you can but the chances would e slimmer than if you are living in atleast some sort of place. 35% of our cities live in such a situation and yet no one thinks about it. Can you dream if you are not sure if you wil not see tomorrow . Prehaps not. And yet none of our politicos seem to be worried about the abjuct failure of security.
And that perhaps brings me to things we should expect from government. Or demand from it.
- Security - that if we sleep today I will get up tomorrow. security that my honest opinion will not be supressed by power. Security that no one will dare misbehave with me just because I am a nobody in system. Security that my basic right of roti, kapra and makaan will be protected. Security that I can dream.- There could be more points beyond it.. Please try and help.
May be if we can define the requirements from the government can we think of ways of finding the government.
Ever thought about it ? It has been something we take for granted. It has to be there. It has to be there for a civil society , it has to be there for sorting out things , it has to be there because it has to be there. Sadly the third is perhaps the most common of the answers we give to oursleves. Atleast in India. Governemt to us is something we try and aboid, to the greatest extent possible. Even as kids we are taught to avoi the police man, as we grow up this apathy increases. Given a choice would you live in a governemnt flat or a designer aprtment. Sadly for most of us govenment is about inefficiecy, corruption, apathy , everything negative that we can think of. It is something we can do without. Or would love to do without.
But is government that useless an entity ? Perhaps an answer to this can be sought in the havocs that not having an efficinet governmanet can create. You have been saving all your life for an apartment. Paying the EMI through your hard earned money or 15-20 years. Killing the small desires for the one dream. This did not ave anything to do with government. It was built by the top notch builder. Electricity, water, sewage everything is private. And then one day when you are in office someone else bribes someone to acquire that. That's the need of governement. Take the same apartment once more. A small bomb planted somewhere in the aprtment can bring it to ashes. Simply because the redundant government was sleeping. What happens than. Your dream of years is out to ashes. Would you be able to dream again in life after that.
And that perhaps in my views is the reason for government. To let its citizens dream. And to take steps to preserve dreams. To nurture them, to cultivate them. This is preaps what seperates developed nations from others. The governemtn has to give the citizens assurance that there dreams would be protected. Not distroyed because someone was bribed. Not destroyed because someone else wanted to distroy them. Not distroyed because the furtile ground for dreams is no longer there.
Now moving on Indian model of governance. Would the relatives of those killed in Gujrat be able to have dreams. To have dreams you NEED to have sleep. And if the sleep is disturbed by nightmares you can not have dreams. And yet no Indian politican of name has ever resigned because of that. Can you dream if you are living in a slum. May be you can but the chances would e slimmer than if you are living in atleast some sort of place. 35% of our cities live in such a situation and yet no one thinks about it. Can you dream if you are not sure if you wil not see tomorrow . Prehaps not. And yet none of our politicos seem to be worried about the abjuct failure of security.
And that perhaps brings me to things we should expect from government. Or demand from it.
- Security - that if we sleep today I will get up tomorrow. security that my honest opinion will not be supressed by power. Security that no one will dare misbehave with me just because I am a nobody in system. Security that my basic right of roti, kapra and makaan will be protected. Security that I can dream.- There could be more points beyond it.. Please try and help.
May be if we can define the requirements from the government can we think of ways of finding the government.
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