Incredible India

What a morning it has been!!! My heart goes out to all the family members of the persons who lost their lives in the Mangalore plane crash and that’s not it, amidst all the chaos, Praful Patel the civil aviation minister has offered to resign. Even resignations have become a charade like so much else in public life. Instead of mock resignation offers, netas (politicians) should do penance by serving the people without seeking reward.

Focusing on my blog “Incredible India”.

Do these two words strike a chord in you? Today do we even think of India as an Indian before letting outsiders know how incredible she is? Let go off the layman, do our honorable MPs and MLAs (I am not sure of how many political parties, my software counter just crashed as I came to know Amar Singh is planning to form yet another political party with all his bandwagon) who are supposed to represent and work for the common man, care to know what is going on around their chairs of power and selfish money churning policies. Let’s leave it at that before I get bashed by any political goons as ironically the state where I am in is very sensitive to being “Indian”. It’s a well known truth (not sure of the type of truth here as I cannot write universal, being Indian comes first) and we can write an epic about The Big Indian Political Tamasha and the sheer mockery of democracy made, therefore the less said the better. 

The advertisement which the ministry of tourism in India keeps on airing on the numerous news and entertainment channels, in order to attract so called guests (whom we believe to be GOD) is top notch but we, the viewers, fail to realize what lies beneath or shall I ask you this way at what cost the incredibility comes?
At the dawn of  21^st century and after 63 years of acquiring freedom through incessant fighting for our basic needs, the first 50 years of which was spent in organizing and building the country (not sure who all political bigwigs planned and how it was planned, as the country still looks in disarray) our economic stability still depends on our farmers whom we neglect the most, who still fights tooth and nail to get his average two meals per day. In a country where poverty, hunger, ill literacy (to name a few out of the never ending list) is still so eminent and rampant everywhere you set your eyes on, that it cannot possibly be neglected. We can invest millions of rupees on inviting “guests” to visit our country but we cannot spend at least one fourth of that in the needs of our own countrymen? I do not think we have gone blind, I think we are blind, blind but seeing, blind people who can see, but do not see. If you can see, look. If you can look, observe. Behold and beware here comes the next level of incredibly psychic blindness.

Observe this picture carefully and guess what can you make out of it? Pretty simple isn’t it, a woman carrying a matki (water pot) on top of her head surrounded by the heat and unforgiving dessert. This very picture has been nonchalantly uploaded on the Incredible India site by the govt of tourism in India as the face of Rajasthan.

Now let’s put on our thinking glasses and try and see what else does this beautiful picture, as it may seem, portray. Assuming the lady carrying the matki as the protagonist, her inner voice screams (which obviously no one is interested to hear) “God save me from nature’s wrath & fury. I have to walk 20 kilometers per day back and forth for collecting drinking water for my whole family, what kind of life have you given me. Please free me from my torments and I wish to suffer no more.”, but alas who cares?


Instead of hearing this oppressively mute voice our government has chosen to inspire foreigners to come to our country by using this incredible and equivocal picture. I may sound a bit exaggerated, but this picture is a true narration of political apathy and rot in our country i.e. even in the 21^st century our countrymen do not get the basic necessities (food, water and electricity) readily available at their disposal. All I have to say is it is a tyrannous disregard of human rights. Truly Incredible.

So much to think about, so much to write about and so much to be done, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The optimism in me and so in you should always be kept alive, as that is what at the end of the day will adrenalize us to do something extraordinary. Keep your spirits high.Until next time…… Good Bye.