Our Generation has failed the nation!

For a nation to hold on its own with honour:


Three ingredients are needed..funds, honesty and integrity. in the reverse order.

Mere funds lacking the other two ingredients produce only black money economy, arms trade and Naxalism or maoism in tribal areas, and organised mafia gangs in urban areas, with full secret political support too.

Poor continue to live as in the Moghul period suffering both the Government, contractors and the Maoists, choosing the lesser evil, as the circumstances dictate.

Humans survive based on the intrinsic Darwin principle adopting to the environmental forces which they may like or dislike.

A few sensitive intellectuals let out hot air but cannot do much. Like slavish Jews under Egyptians dying while building pyramids , there were intellectuals then also amongst them consoling them, should we look for a Moses to lead the poor out of their plight?

Or like Rang De Basanti heros groups of youngsters have to put an end a to a few in power, only to be tagged as terrorists and shot by other honest armed forces merely at the call of duty to protect the state?

Or can we truly prepare a new generation of young leaders who are mature enough to gradually take us out of this morass and bring in the missing ingredients of honesty and integrity in to the pudding of life in India?

The last option mathematically is difficult to believe because from disorder order is impossible to create, I believe. Unless it is destroyed and a de novo restart button is pressed. Earlier days Communists did try that. I used to be an avid reader of Marxism in my student days.

There used to be a saying that under 40 every one is a communist at heart. But you age beyond, then you become capitalist.

But now , uneducated poor remain communists at heart, and the moment you are educated you become a capitalist or an exploiter. Even you may join the leadership of Maoists for self gratification of ego and power, if you are unable to first get in to a corporate office.

But to my mind it is too hard to accept defeat as a nation.

Hope is that may be there will be some magic and a group of young leaders will show us the way out.

It is with a regret that I admit my generation has thoroughly failed. Not that some of us did not try to change. But the result of failure triumphantly stares in our face.


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सत्यं परम् धीमही
बी. राजाराम
Rajaram Bojji M.Tech. IRSE (Retd.), FIE, FNAE, AMASCE
Fmr. MD Konkan Railway /Min. of Railways India
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Comments

Krishna B said…
thought provoking writeup! reminds me of shashi tharoors remark that india is not a developing country, but a once highly developed nation now in the advanced state of decay.
April 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM
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