We as the
world’s biggest democracy has seen so many elections and so many leaders, our
economy has reached new peaks, and we do claim to be the oldest of
the civilizations that stands in par with The Egyptians and
Sumerians, when the Europeans were hunting for their food, we
were building ships and trading with the east, with such history one
would expect us to be in the top of the food chain, The Big brother status of
USA should only do us less credit, let us put such deserving thoughts aside for a
while; I happened to witness the Presidential debate of the USA for the
first time(Of course in TV) and was left in astonishment by the decency
displayed by both the candidates and was even more baffled the next day to see
the American news papers lashing out at them for certain remarks
made and at the Moderator especially for not controlling the debate very
well.
The Reason why me in the first place presumed the debate as
decent was because of my expectation of witnessing hair pulling and chair
throwing which are the unique identities of an Indian Parliament session; A
day without which any chosen public representative of Indian legislature
will consider it his day off, A wasted day. Now let me come to the first point
of the post, considering our long history as a society are we not supposed to
love our fellow beings a little more? If given a chance should we not try and
make the lives of our fellow beings a little better? We boast an economy
growing faster than the Americans isn't it about time that no Indian sleeps
with out his day’s bread, Isn't it about time that each Indian
writes and reads his own post card to his family(I happened to help an
illiterate guy to write a letter at a post office, Didn't make me happy at
all) and decide on his own, his vote.
Now again to the Presidential debate of the USA; When I saw Romney
and Obama argue I saw two fellow Americans competing to help their country men,
They both believe that the other guy cant do as well as himself, at least that
is the posture they must maintain in order to win and to continue office,
How hopeless it is to hope for at least a posture, a gesture of doing good from
the Indian politicians, I'm not scaling up to the levels of president or Prime
minister(in the case of India), No, Not yet. can you question your Municipal
Councillor ?? can a Indian point finger at his Municipal Councillor, no
and Yet we call it a free nation.
P.S: After all Indians get arrested for drawing cartoons
Any bloke will find this post discontinuous, erratic but i had to
vent out my frustration and I did, so if you are searching for something good
to read i’d suggest not to try this one, well this warning probably should
appear in the beginning but it isn't which only means I really don't care,
Bazingggggaaaaaa :) punks :P
