Whatever it takes!

Yesterday Mumbai saw one of the most barbaric actions that the Police in India have ever taken against the students. Yes, I just could not prevent myself from qualifying the action as barbaric and it is more pronounced when one of the senior most police officers denies all this charges, but then what about the TV telecasts? Do they think we the citizens are blind or they make an ass of themselves? I would not like to go in all those details, rather let’s come straight to the point.

Government in India of late does not consist of a single party with proper mandate; rather it’s always a coalition government which rules the roost. Be it at the centre or in some cases (rising now a day) state. But as far as the ministry of higher education and all that shit is concerned, it is handled primarily by the Ministry of HRD at the center. Now, since it’s a coalition government, ministers have to satisfy each of the coalition parties to remain in power (even if they have to go against their own ideology), else what? Else the government will lose the majority in case few ministers pull the plug; government will fall and then late night parties in the opposition camp. That’s how it works; Money (power) is primary, services secondary! Think about all the initiatives that the government in power takes at the international level and think about the effect on this due to ideology change of the upcoming government (FYI Indian politics still work on ideologies unlike US or UK, where the flexibility in the policies has taken the driver’s seat in the recent times). Not only that, as a minister, if you are not very sure about a new rule that you are going to propose, you can still just pontificate the superficial details of your proposal and stir the nation. It might bring about some more votes when the elections are around the corner in a few states. As an aftermath, people can just start staging the protest march against the new proposal, and police in turn can just start with all the castigation they had been awaiting. There would be mass incarcerations and the medical students would go on strike, the patients (and parents) will be affected and the poor and the unfortunate will die due to lack of medicines and treatment. Who is bothered? And the ministers can just dress in cocktail suits and ponder about how the GDP growth rate of the country can be improved or if the US congress is going to approve the nuclear deal or what will be the exact percentage of the new quota for OBC. It’s always the poor and common men who bear the brunt of all this shitty political game. Is our government aware of the fact that our country at the moment is the youngest country of the world? Do the guys at the top office foresee any future of this country where the polity hinders the talents and the merit of the students, and works more for the electoral gains? It’s true that we need Nuclear Deals with US and lots of FDI and Free Economic Zones and lots of Peace processes and blah blah blah, but then who will take care of those backward people of our country who don’t have access to even the basic needs of life, I am sure they don’t need to move from the under-sanitized places to the IIMs or IITs (And those who have it in them will definitely go, remember that IIMA guy from Chennai who used to sell idlis on the streets in the childhood). And what about the places like Kalinganagar and the Narmada valley where people have lost their own land in the hands of sarkaari morons without getting proper compensations. They need roti, kapda aur makaan and then assurance to get the proper primary education. People who are already in the main stream of the society should be given enough privilege to compete by themselves and not by further reminding them that they are still backward! Guys! Direct your bandwagon to those who are under-privileged and not those who have had enough!

Govt. should understand that its trickery is not going to work when the lives of we young citizens are at stake. For the future of India is not driven by the abominable state of politics that we are smeared with at the moment, but by the sheer talent and the merit of its people who are going to reshape the country to make it big at the world arena. And to achieve this, we the young guns will go far enough whatever it takes...