Everyday, I read the news, a bad habit I started for the past 4 months. Really...it all stated with that...odd- even, sedition, nationalism, dissolutions , Productivity, beef ban, elections, and what not.
The statistics that show poverty in India gives a varied picture between 27 % to 52 %. why the hell is this so high? It has been 6 decades since independence and still we have so much poverty. Govt. shows predictions of a 7 % economic growth; where the hell is the growth, seriously, who is growing. We have the largest youth population in the world, but lucky for us, most of them are unskilled, unemployable, or unemployed. There has been lots of initiatives to rise employment through Skill India, Startup India, Make in India but can such a weak manufacturing sector provide jobs for our rising unemployed workforce which is growing like rabbits. The service sector growth is not providing more opportunities as it is incapable of such large employment. On top of that, water management is joke in this nation. We either have floods or droughts and we blame climate change. Yeah, I agree, Climate change is a bitch, but we can take measures to mange water resources, reduce wastage, provide methods for recharge of ground water, prioritize usage. There are ways to solve almost any problems. Then again the new question comes up. who will solve it?. No, In India that question is meaningless...it's more like, Who is there to fucking assign blame to?. The state of institutional fragmentation is so huge that there are multiple departments which should do the same fucking job but won't do shit and blames each other for their own freaking delay. I still haven't got a clue where the Govt. is spending the money it gained by the lowering of international oil prices and rising domestic oil prices. Like, seriously, they should have earned a fortune with the trade deficit so low and the low inflation..They could have done something huge. But what do they do, cut the expenditure in public health. Bravo. That too, in the primary and secondary healthcare. They don't care if there is malnutrition, communicable diseases, pregnancy deaths or something...they are trying to reduce population, by spending on contraceptives and awareness for sterilization, well..now that I think it that way...it makes sense...of course...How do we reduce population...stop people from making new ones and letting the ones already born, die soon. And what more, we need more innovation, Let's not increase the expenditure in R&D. Innovation will come from vacuum. out of the blue. Isn't it. To make things interesting, there is this guy from some temple saying all rapes are happening because women enter temples. Holy shit. I can't for the loving mother of god, connect that line of thought. Dude..seriously...how can you blame all that to some poor woman who just wanted to put a garland on some deity. But then I remembered - Indian gods hate women, they should be prohibited from doing this, doing that...but I shouldn't be too judgemental ... all gods hate women for that matter...haven't seen a matriarchal religion yet. Guess that is one thing they are united for, Even though they hate women, there is one thing they love..yup you guessed it...Cows...cows shouldn't be slaughtered, people should.I mean ..in our country there is no scarcity of human lives..you don't find another country so serious about conservation and protection of animals than us..the dedication...its actually safer to be a cow in India than a woman..pretty screwed up I guess...And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Well..still...I am hopeful. Why?..I haven;'t got a clue. just an optimistic intuition. The new generation is the hope. The old cannot be corrected. but the new can. Maybe they can find order within the chaos.
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