I have repeatedly said that our national aim must be to transform India into a modern industrial giant, like USA or China, for only then can we abolish our massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of child malnourishment, almost total lack of proper healthcare and good education for our masses, etc, the curses which have been plaguing us for centuries.
For doing so there are 3 requirements : (1) a huge pool of technical talent (2) vast natural resources, and (3) patriotic, selfless, modern minded political leaders
We have the first two. We have thousands of bright engineers and technicians. In fact in American Universities there are numerous professors of science, technology, mathematics, medicine, etc. The Silicon Valley in California is largely manned by Indian IT engineers.
We also have huge natural resources. India is not a small country like UK or Japan. It is almost a continent.
What we lack, however, is the third requirement, i.e. patriotic, modern minded political leaders determined to transform India rapidly into a mighty industrial giant.
Instead, we have as our political leaders, of all parties, a bunch of selfish rogues, rascals, looters, mafiosi type gangsters, deceivers and crooks, who for securing their vote banks polarise society on caste and communal lines, and incite and spread caste and communal violence and hatred, as I mentioned in this NDTV channel discussion by Barkha Dutt some years back on the lynching of Ikhlaque in Dadri ( which united the politicians of different parties appearing on the show against me ).
Our politicians, of all parties, have no genuine love for the people and only seek power and pelf for themselves or their kith and kin.
In ‘Hamlet’ Shakespeare said ”There is something rotten in the State of Denmark ”.
Similarly, it can be said ”There is something rotten in Indian politics ”, and that is the extremely low level of our politicians, intellectually and ethically, who care two hoots for the country.
In the media one sees scam after scam, often involving politicians who swear by the poor and disadvantaged sections of society. Prime Minister Modi said ” Na khaoonga, na khaane doonga ”, but this has turned out to be just another ‘jumla’ : Now that Spotlight Of Corruption Is On BJP, Modi Has Turned to a Dangerous Narrative & Corruption Grows in the Ten Years of BJP’s Rule & 8 Years 8 Frauds, BJP government Failed!
Talleyrand said of the Bourbons (the French royal family ): “The Bourbons saw nothing, remembered nothing, and forgot nothing.” Most of the Indian politicians today remind one of the Bourbons. They do not see the public anger rising against them and reaching boiling point. They do not remember the fate of the Bourbons, the Hapsburgs, and the Romanovs (if they have even heard of them). And they do not forget their power and pelf, thinking this will continue forever (as did the ill-fated dynasties mentioned above )
A mighty, historical people’s revolution is inevitably looming ahead, but our wretched, short sighted politicians are blissfully unaware of the coming storm, and only engrossed in polarising society and amassing fortunes.
