I am coming back from Bhopal, right now in a train; it is 9.30 AM in morning. The train has stopped at a station; station name is as peculiar for me as the French language. Next to me a middle age man sitting, I think he is a sales manager as whole of the way he keeps on instructing his sales persons of sales figures, presentations, and feedbacks, using all his skills that he has learned from all his life, sometime yelling, sometime shouting, otherwise cool and calm.
At Bhopal and Indore it was Election mania, everywhere there were large hoardings, big cut-offs, posters, banners, promises, political parties blaming on each other, while other counting his achievements. That is how the Indian politics run. It all looks like a mela, elections are like celebration: a celebration that comes after five years. People discussing about candidates, about parties. Parties promising free laptops, free mobile phones, free cycles and lots ….. one rupee kilo wheat, two rupee kilo rice, free toilets…. Waiving off the debts … and so many promises, some false some true.
This is the worst Irony of India, after more than sixty years of Independence, we are still exactly same what we were in British Raj looking the face of Sahibs for our little benifts, we want everything in free, and it is running from the British time. Small petty thing like Laptop or mobile phones, if we are getting free can close our mind and instinct and we vote for these petty small things. Instead that the political parties should promise that once they win the election, they will help us to increase our purchasing powers, when people can buy all these things by themselves, helping people in getting jobs, generating jobs, sustainable entrepreneurship, sustaining small and middle level Industries, a perfect planning for agricultural growth.
Well, this is a political question, which I am to suggest? I can only put my opinions. Again comes on our mentality to getting things free. I do remember once I was participated in book fair, and we had many catalogues of books for free distributions, but those catalogues were relevant for those who have any interest in those particular subjects. I swear within half an hour, all the catalogues were finished; taken mostly by the people who hardly have any interest, forget about reading, even not to open it. If something is free then what is the harm in grabbing it, at least it will come to clean our hands after lunch.
