Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The profession which pays you the most in return of doing nothing..!!

The most read articles these days are related to asset declaration of politicians. Even when our leaders have crores and crores of money in their name, India is still called a developing nation. They still think about money first and the country later. And if this trend continues, India would be called a developing nation for 100 more years. People are treating politics just as a money vending machine without even bothering to realize what the actual work of politicians are.

A few days back I had an awesome trip to Coorg. On our way back, we went to Srirangapatna (the capital of Tipu Sultan). Within the range of 10 km (or even less), there were some 10 spots where crowds of people could be seen. One was the place from where the English army had entered the fort, the other was the place where the English soliders were imprisoned, another place was the spot where Tipu sultan had died while fighting, so on and so forth. The first thought which flashed my mind was "Which places will our future generations visit? The place where Varun gave a hate speech? The place where a particular caste was abused by some leader? The place where some leaders committed crimes infront of the entire junta and still were left unaccused? Will our future generations ever know the actual fighters and saviours of India during this period? Our future generations would only know which political leader made what comments during the Kargil War or some other situation of crisis but would not have the slightest of idea about the brave soliders actually securing our motherland."

We would not have any problems with our political leaders having such huge bank balances if they stop dividing the country on the basis of religious groups,castes and origin & lead the country to the position it actually deserves. We are even ready to believe that Sonia owns no car and no house and has just 1.38 cr if she does some good for the country..!!



PS : Even I wouldn't waste my money on a car and a house if I have a bunglaw to live in and can travel in AC cars without paying anything..!!

4 comments:

Antzzzz said...

In western countries politicians use 90% of the money for a project and pockets the rest. Here we do the opposite. Still, sonia has only 1.38 crores. This after ruling the country for such a long time. May be this refers to the assets in the name of sonia gandhi. A lot more could be there in the name of Edvige Antonia Albina Maino.

The contents are gud. But i do not agree with ur title . Am not sure whether it could be called the profession, considering the fact that profession involves a type of work that requires special training. May be even politics requires special training to make money. In that sense it seems to be an apt title.

as always ununderstandable said...

very well said ma'am... indeed people need to think about these issues, if they have some pride in them to own the name of being INDIAN... Lets see what this election has in store for us....

prashant singh said...

well said and i believe we need to devise a system to hold these ppl accountable and we may have to find a way to quantify their performance. there are a lot of intangibles involved which leave people confused who is a lesser devil for them( of course they all fit the catagory). so may be if there is some quantifiable means available to gauge their performance it may help the populace.
nice thoughts.
i have a new post more or less on the same lines

PC said...

The thing we Indians do the best is cribbing. we just crib without thinking (in your case "penning down") what the solution may be or can be. your whole article talks about problems. We realize that there's a problem with our system, our politicians are bad, etc. etc., but who will provide the solution. where will the solution come from if not from educated people like you?