Finally... the state of Maharashtra has a government. What a shame! This entire process has just exposed the sorry state of politics. And the saddest part is, the common man can do nothing... absolutely nothing!
I grieve, I cry and I hate myself for being just a mere spectator. I hate my helplessness.
In the recent times few advertisers and media houses started this drive of telling people to VOTE. And there are millions of people... who claim to be educated... who believe that putting that blemish on a finger is a solution for all the problems. We have been playing this game of voting for quite sometime now....more than 60 years. I feel sorry for my father's generation. What they witnessed as young boys on the 15th of August 1947 was magical. They grew up as young men in possibly the most optimistic period in the recent history of this country... 1950's. They had a leader with a world vision. But merely in a decade all their hopes crashed with his death. Nehru's death was the death of politics based on values and what started soon thereafter was politics of numbers, caste, religion and bribes. My father's and many of his friends whole lifetime went by hoping ... woh subaha kabhi toh ayegi... that morning star will rise one day... it never did.
Can voting alone be the solution? It's ridiculous to think it is.
What we need at the moment is a revolution of thought. A change in the way we think or are made to think about politics.
In a democratic system the most important thing is knowledge. And education is a path to reach that destination. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was absolutely correct when he pronounced that 'we must educate the people of the country first and then fight for freedom'. Today, we are paying the price for ignoring that great man. In a country where majority of people are uneducated or called educated because they can merely write their names... democracy is bound to be a joke. It is bound to go in the hands of people who emerge from the sea of this deprived humanity. We are being ruled by people who can't even speak in their own mother tongue. They are the leaders and these are the voters, the so called VOTE BANK. You and I don't even account for 10% of that bank.Votes are up for grabs. You can buy them off the shelf, easily. Give your vote bank a reason, money, threaten their existence or create a threat in their minds and your job is done. You really think they want our votes? Really? Think again.
What we have to do is make sure we educate or help educate at least one deprived person. It could be anybody... your maid servant's or your driver's son or daughter. Make sure they get education in a decent school not a municipal school and in a language spoken worldwide. English is the language. This one donation you must make towards building the future of this country or else even after 100 years few educated will be voting an uneducated to power. Democracy will be be dead by then.
I grieve, I cry and I hate myself for being just a mere spectator. I hate my helplessness.
In the recent times few advertisers and media houses started this drive of telling people to VOTE. And there are millions of people... who claim to be educated... who believe that putting that blemish on a finger is a solution for all the problems. We have been playing this game of voting for quite sometime now....more than 60 years. I feel sorry for my father's generation. What they witnessed as young boys on the 15th of August 1947 was magical. They grew up as young men in possibly the most optimistic period in the recent history of this country... 1950's. They had a leader with a world vision. But merely in a decade all their hopes crashed with his death. Nehru's death was the death of politics based on values and what started soon thereafter was politics of numbers, caste, religion and bribes. My father's and many of his friends whole lifetime went by hoping ... woh subaha kabhi toh ayegi... that morning star will rise one day... it never did.
Can voting alone be the solution? It's ridiculous to think it is.
What we need at the moment is a revolution of thought. A change in the way we think or are made to think about politics.
In a democratic system the most important thing is knowledge. And education is a path to reach that destination. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was absolutely correct when he pronounced that 'we must educate the people of the country first and then fight for freedom'. Today, we are paying the price for ignoring that great man. In a country where majority of people are uneducated or called educated because they can merely write their names... democracy is bound to be a joke. It is bound to go in the hands of people who emerge from the sea of this deprived humanity. We are being ruled by people who can't even speak in their own mother tongue. They are the leaders and these are the voters, the so called VOTE BANK. You and I don't even account for 10% of that bank.Votes are up for grabs. You can buy them off the shelf, easily. Give your vote bank a reason, money, threaten their existence or create a threat in their minds and your job is done. You really think they want our votes? Really? Think again.
What we have to do is make sure we educate or help educate at least one deprived person. It could be anybody... your maid servant's or your driver's son or daughter. Make sure they get education in a decent school not a municipal school and in a language spoken worldwide. English is the language. This one donation you must make towards building the future of this country or else even after 100 years few educated will be voting an uneducated to power. Democracy will be be dead by then.
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