Celebrating Failures

Celebrating Failures!

We are celebrating our golden jubilee year of independence with much pomp and show. Celebration is normally done for victory, success or achievement, but here is a classic example of celebrating failures and fumbling.

During these 50 years after independence, our development has been on a snail’s pace compared to many other countries of the world. Even those countries, which attained independence after 1947, have crossed miles ahead of us. Unfortunately, our progress has been more pronounced in the negative fields like population growth, pollution, road accidents, robbery, rape, dacoity, kidnapping, bride burning, scams, scandals and last but not the least corruption.

The evils of the Casteism, communalism, regionalism, linguistism, parochialism etc have become so rampant in the country as one can hardly find Indians in India. Quality of life, product, services, etc have all gone down. Despite the fact that we have won many awards, rewards, medals, recognition, ISI & ISO certificates, the actual quality has come down in many spheres. We have systematically strangulated our morals, values, ethics, traditions, and flora and fauna. Our standards in literature, culture, arts, sports, are fast eroding.

After the independence our planners have visualised an India of self-reliance, self-dependence and growth coupled with social justice. However, even after 50-year of independence we are more and more dependent on foreign countries for our survival. Under the pretext of liberalisation we have invited multinationals to invade India and today we depend on them even for cool drinks and potato wafers. We believe in screwdriver technology and heavily depend on foreign countries for all the requirement of critical items-whether they are used in the manufacture (nay assembly) of sophisticated equipments or consumer durables. Over dependence on any country will slowly leads to slavery.

There is a wide gap between what we preach and what we practice. This is further compounded by contradictions like a scoundrel giving sermons about morality, criminal talking about social justice and corrupt politician preaching probity in public life.

Barring some isolated achievements here and there we have nothing to rejoice, nothing to celebrate. This is at best an occasion for introspection to find ways and means to get rid of the clutches of corruption, chaos, confusion and murky political state of affairs.