Recently one of my friends asked me why I don't write about scams in India? It makes me sad, angry and upset to think about this-i weep for my great country.I don’t know where to begin and end with regard to this subject and I’m so tired of those new scams that mushroom everyday. Neither I do remember the names of those politicians and bureaucrats who are involved in scams nor wish to do so.( Finally am i getting cynic?)Those scamsters don’t deserve any mention of their names for they are the worst criminals in society.
But I was wondering about the tolerance of Indians towards corruption. For years, we are used to live with it and developed a kind of passive attitude about this social cancer. Whether there will be any day when Indians take to streets against our governments? India is not an autocratic country, but our democracy is nominal and is run by a bunch of political-bureaucratic-corporate mafia. Or Did the prophetic writer Kahlil Gibran put it correctly in his following words the painful truth that we live in?
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.”
Kahlil Gibran
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I am a rebel, I can’t get along with meanness and injustice and feel like responding against all the menaces in the society. But it dawns on me many times that I can’t afford to be so, as I am so much bound to the materialism of the world. Sometimes I feel like a helpless child as if my favourite poet Shelley lamented once: ‘I fall upon the thorns of life, and I bleed’
It is not my intention to portray India in a bad light. I love the place where I was born and the place where I was being nurtured. And being an eternal optimist I do still believe and wish my country would change for the better. Again I subscribe to Shelley’s optimism ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’?
I am so grateful to my good swiss friend Mat Berthod, who inspired me to write and as a grafic designer put all his effort to frame this blog in an easthetic way.
It is not my intention to portray India in a bad light. I love the place where I was born and the place where I was being nurtured. And being an eternal optimist I do still believe and wish my country would change for the better. Again I subscribe to Shelley’s optimism ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’?
I am so grateful to my good swiss friend Mat Berthod, who inspired me to write and as a grafic designer put all his effort to frame this blog in an easthetic way.
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