Winds Of Change

In recent past, many things happened in sheer promptness. Firstly, Indian authority showed some reluctance in choosing Pakistani players for third edition of IPL, simultaneously followed by the statement from King Khan for his grievances about some of his team mates had been shown exit gate that would affect his team the most. Then, Sena proclaimed SRK’s statement unpatriotic and suggested him to shift source of his livelihood to the neighbouring country. After that, Rahul Gandhi’s journey to Mumbai, his local train adventure and his ideology of Indianness fuelled the fire. What followed afterwards were King Khan was upset for his team having been kept away from some regular players, for his forthcoming MNIK and for his statement having been distorted, Sena got the chance to boost up his adamant dogma and Rahul addressed a group of college student to think beyond regionalism and help this country uplift from the current position. These events happened in such a harmony that it can easily depict the current circumstances of the country. Though many faces are trying to save India and make it at par with other developed country, some or other factors are still responsible for its sauntering pace. Sometimes, it seems battle of good and evil never ended, though it started long back, and our Gods and their counterparts gave the responsibilities to us and took the permanent rest.

Let me be back to reality and take the honour to scrutinize my own country, nonetheless I will not utter anything new. Everybody knows the true, although I like to put it into my words.

Everyone says India is a unique country of diversity where people of different language, culture, clan, geography, and most important, different mindset live together. I rather call India peculiar than unique. The reason I can give that most of the people don’t have time to enjoy its uniqueness lest they will have to sleep with half fed or empty stomach. For more than half of the population, above mentioned events are either unknown or of no use, since they can’t even gather what is called essential for existence. In such scenario, it is very easy for political parties to make them believe in what they think is right. Worse is the case when you have many factions. Numerous factions mean numerous parties with numerous ideologies, always contradicting to each other and leading nowhere. Be it any state of India, chaos created by these parties is more or less same. These parties did nothing good irrespective of what their intentions were – good or evil, result came out the same in each case.

Still, It is our fortune that we got some great entrepreneurs who brought some opportunities for us by sacrificing their lives, even when environment was not business friendly. Companies like Infosys, Wipro, Tata group, Birla, HCL etc are the results of incessant perseverance of some great sons of India, who dared to start their business in total unfriendly and protective environment. But, they are not sufficient. Also, these developments have limited themselves to some of the cities resulting in creating significant density difference across the region. All development projects are being located to opportune places only. Lack of proper infrastructure, basis amenities, regularities in law and order made people reluctant to move into 2-3 tier zones. Despite maintaining good growth rate, we are not able to stop migration to cities like Mumbai, Delhi and NCRs, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and a few others from deprived regions, mainly Bihar, UP, MP and North East. It is estimated that around 400 families move to Mumbai everyday in search of job. So, it is almost obvious for local residents to show wrath against migrants that unknowingly became leading cause for disruption of the normal life. Indian cities are so chaotic that you have to struggle for everything, no matter how insignificant it is. In such conditions, if any political party hold the migrants responsible, it seems obvious to locals and they provide full support. The word ‘India’ started losing its significance in the aftermath and its states’ names became more prevalent. What are happening in India are the results of mistakes over mistakes. We put all the eggs in one basket, now we are trying to separate fresh from rotten. Let’s take the example of US. If they have New York as their financial hub, they also have LA, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta etc, which take the responsibility in case of any burden. Unlike US, we have only Delhi apart from Mumbai. Rest of the cities are still under process and they will take time to reach at that level.

Now another big issue: Pakistan. It is an irony, how two parts, which fought together for freedom, perceived exactly different paths, once they got apart. Pakistan did every possible thing to harm India in order to grab Kashmir. Pakistan’s recent attacks in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Ahmadabad and many more depict his malevolent intentions. In such situation, expecting a cordial relationship with the neighbour in any form could lead to disaster. Same applies to cricket as well. What is the big deal in keeping their players aloof without any fuss? SRK’s issue should not have started at all at very first place, though it is related to a sport not politics. It is now confirmed that no players for Pakistan will participate. Even though, we certainly will have the great season this year also. May be Indians get the chance in place of Pakistani players and beat the expectations. Who knows?

In the midst of all these, we can still expect hopefully that we will solve all these issue in next 10-15 years, so that our next generations don’t become prey of this useless chaos. We can still hope we will have harmony with other nations including the nearest ones. We have the bigger labour force than our counterparts have. And, the best thing is that our generation is energetic, enthusiastic and ambitious. Winds of change is blowing at full pace to pluck every obstruction from its root.

So, why to wait??? Let us prepare for the worst and hope for the best!!!!!!!!!