FAILING NATION ?

Lucknow,24th JAN. At the time of yet another republic day everyone is filled with lot of enthusiasm and pride about the nation. I am too feeling same but suddenly a altogether different thought came in my rotten mind(as my friends says) “why should we have pride?”.Should we have pride for suciding thousands of farmers ,for being at 98th position in literacy and pay attention it is literacy not education,for being at 55th position in 102 developing nations,for having a regional barbarianisms by some group of regional street level leaders who even did not know how to talk,for having naxalite songs spread from 3 states to 13,for unable to get any jurisdiction for any alive politician in case of corruption,for having about 1/4th population below poverty(according to U.N.,reliability is in question),for every time getting educated by an terrorist attack(according to union home ministry),for having population of 1 Bn and still searching oasis of podiums in Olympics,being largest in no. of movies maker and still on his knees(with whopping tounge out) for Oscars,for all the technological advancement but still not able to make,for being performing grand in economic front but still not able to get distribution of the benefit and there are much more such feelings and experience were,but as you know these are thoughts which arose in every one’s mind but we take things as “hum kya karein?,its govt. job not ours”.
Before discussing all these things,we should look in the foundation of this country.As we have been boasting biggest democratic nation,but interestingly the decision on the first P.M. was taken by favourism rather than democratic way.As we got independence we thought now everything is achieved,work over and everyone started to use his freedom for making and sustaining his upper hand and privileges.The british gone and the place of them taken by the “black skinned British(s)”(as Mr.Nehru in his first addressing to parliament).We clearly defined our rights and our responsibilities but cannot able to decide what will be in which category,we made a secular country without defining the secularism.By concerning one can say “wow what a great country?”.We are talking about economic growth that we have achieved a phenomenon success in that,but this success must have some benchmark,around which we should make decision,lets take case of BRIC(Brazil,Russia,China,India) countries and you find yourself at lowest,in 1950 Shanghai and Mumbai(then Bombay) are in same condition and in present there is a big gap in two cities.and we still making hoo-hoopla about our success.
When it came to education we still have those frame of British period and interestingly British educational system itself has been changed in leap and bounds.From last 59 years we are trying to increase literacy rate only,educating the citizens was nowhere in the picture since then.The case of higher education is much more pathetic.Today universities are just a place of distributing the degrees in a manner that person getting degree himself doesn’t know the importance and meaning of it.We still in the process of producing the literate Mules for clerical purposes.
Nationalism is taken as fascism in our country,votebank politics had made the situatation worse and regionalism is engulfing the nationalism and governments are busy in making and saving their chairs. Our whole politics have been concentrated around the benefits of groups formed on basis of our cheap concerns.Our constitution and legislature are impotent in dealing such issues.In india freedom means freedom in evry thing ,limit has been defined by those who himself never cares about limits.It is also a record that till now despite having numerous corruption charges no any living politician has been accused guilty(only Prime minister Rao has been accused after his death).And even some are contesting polls by being under police custody.
The treatment to the achievers in any field is being such harsh and illogical that when it comes to global competitiveness we lose our edge. The efforts of individuals at individual level has been making us proud from a long time but we never paid attention towards the impact of collective effort similar to that.
The fragile social structure is getting worsen day by day, extent of intolerance has increased how much is evident from the recent Mumbai –northindian incident. The reservation policy on cast basis has made the classism more prevalent and only widen the gap. Apart from this the social fragmentation, reservation has made wrong persons on important positions which created problems more that it solved.