My last post was on 14th September, just one day after the serial bomb blasts in Delhi. Since then I got a few chance to write but somehow I just kept staring at my monitor screen and didn’t write any new posts. For the past one months, I seriously think the logic behind this blog. Am I here to write all those problems which India is facing ? Will it benefit anybody? Can my writing help somebody? Or am I just wasting my time (as one reader pointed to me in the Raj Thackeray’s post). Seriously sometimes our mental state makes us go inwards for an inner evaluation of our intentions.
India is passing through a very rough phase these days. Never before I saw the imprints of fear so clearly on the faces of people. People have started avoiding crowded markets, festival gatherings and other busy places. A sense of insecurities have pervaded the whole nation. Terrorism has started affecting our life style.
Apart from terrorism, the global financial crisis is looming large on India. Our stock markets are at an all time low. From 21,000 in January this year, the SENSEX has nosedived on 11,000. There are some valid fears that it can soon fall below 10,000. Millions of people have lost their hard earned money in the markets. The Rupee is daily loosing its strength against Dollar. As a result our import bill (especially Oil Bill) is going to cost us a huge sum of money.
The internal law & order of the country is also in doldrums. In Orissa the Hindu -Christian clashes are becoming serious and violent everyday. in Assam, the Muslims and Bodo people are fighting a bloddy battle.
What pains me very badly is the attitude of our politicians in tackling such problems of national importance. A criminal tendency of looking every problem from the point of view of VoteBank has become prevalent in our so called leaders. In Orissa they are ready to impose President Rule just because an opposition party is in power. But in Assam, they are not uttering a word on Musilm-Bodo clash because of a Congress CM. Arrest of some muslim youths in connection with a bomb blasts has given some politician an opportunity to atttract the Muslim votebank. All types of irresponsible statments are coming from our politicians.
In the recent senate vote on Nuclear Deal with India, the members of US Senate of both parties (Republican and Democrats) voted in favor of the deal. Their was difference of opinion on some issue, but since the nuclear deal with India is a matter of national importance for US, both parties were in agreement over this issue.
However, the same deal was vehemently opposed by our opposition parties. Can you imagine the Congress, the BJP and the CPM can unite on this issue of huge national importance to India. No, the national interest is not above party politics in India. Self interest of our leaders comes before the National interest.
All these things make me sad and disappointed. Will my writing this on a blog, which only a few educated Indians can read on internet, make any difference ? Probably not. However, at least it gives me an opportunity to express my frustrations with the state of my country whom I loved so much. It gives me a platform where I can know what other Indians feel about these problems. It is heartening to know that many Indians feel the same way as I.
Despite being in a state of despondency, I’ll keep writing on this blog. At least for the time being.
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