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I have seen the Indian middle class grow by millions in the last decade, but there are still millions who remain poor. There might be a wide variety of reasons for this, but some of the ones I noticed are lack of work ethic and lack of a desire to improve themselves.
Most of the people who do daily labor in India are some of the laziest people. They completely lack any work ethic. All they care about is if they got the money to feed themselves for that day. They will not do any additional work even if it means extra pay. And most would just look for any opportunity to not work like bandhs (even if it does not affect their work) and even festivals of other religions. Whereas most of us in the middle class would look for every opportunity to make extra money and jump at a chance to work overtime so we can save for future expenses.
Some daily laborers send their kids to schools by working hard in the hope of a better future for their kids. But most of the rest do not care about their kids future, the general mentality is why should I care for my kids when my parents did not do anything for me.
The government, NGO’s and private companies are providing support,but unless a person has a desire to improve his and in turn his families lives there is nothing anybody can do. India and Indians have a long way to go before we eliminate poverty.
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After the recent KCR drama for separate Telangana, his call for all Andhra people to leave Telangana and MNS call for non-Marathi’s to leave Mumbai, I was wondering why all these politicians want to divide the existing states into smaller ones or tell people where they are supposed to live. Do they all forget that we are part of India and every Indian has a right to choose where they want to live.
States should be just administrative areas and nothing more. May be we should have started with small states in the beginning itself instead of diving them on linguistic basis, but once formed no one should be allowed to break them into pieces as this creates disunity among Indians. People start forgetting that they are Indians first and will fight with other Indians on these petty issues. If some parts of a state are backward in comparison to other, then these politicians instead of asking for a separate state should first of all find the cause of the problem and then try to solve it.
For thousands of years people have been migrating to places where they have an opportunity to improve their and their family’s lives. Stopping that is not possible, whether it be for MNS, TRS or ULFA and many more such organizations. Immigrants, settlers or non-locals, whatever you may call them by bring new ideas, innovations, culture and development with them. Without human migrations a civilization becomes stagnant and then rots very quickly causing its destruction. Instead of arguing that a non-local has taken a job away from a local, why not look at the fact that these non-locals use local services, spend their money locally and in turn create more jobs which will help many more locals find employment.
All these dramas and agitations by these parties are nothing but to grab power so they can swindle public money and make their families and relatives rich at the expense of the very locals who ignorantly support them.
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We have been hearing reports from Pakistan media of India helping the freedom fighters of Balochistan in destabilising Pakistan. The reports also suggest Pakistan Taliban is getting help from India. I have only one word to describe this: “Paranoia”. Instead of addressing their self created problems, they want to blame it on someone else. The only thing that has been holding Pakistan together is the hate for India and the politicians of Pakistan know how to use it to keep the people in control.
One should see the Pakistan media discussions on this issue, it is mind boggling and sometimes funny how they talk as if this is all true. Do they even live in realty. Pakistan along with US have created, funded, armed and trained Taliban. Maybe they should see the movie Frankenstein to know what happens in the end if you create a monster. If and when India does decide to destabilize Pakistan, it would not even take a couple of years with the right strategy.
Don’t think the Indian politicians or the RAW have the brains or the willingness to destabilize Pakistan and brake it into smaller independent countries. The all powerful Indian intelligence agency RAW only exists in the imagination of Pakistanis. It is an agency that is incompetent and it could not predict the Kargil war, attack on Parliament, attack on Mumbai…just to name a few. Is India involved in Balochistan to give the oppressed people independence from Pakistan, I WISH.
The Pakistanis are giving more publicity for the issue of the freedom of Balochistan in the world and in the end might cause it to break away just like Bangladesh. Who even heard of people fighting for freedom in Balochistan a year ago or even knew a province with that name existed.
On a different note, while watching Pakistani media discussions on YouTube I saw the comedic and paranoid defence analyst of Pakistan media, Zaid Hamid saying in an interview that he is for the unification of India and Pakistan if the new country is called Pakistan. Maybe 10 years back the talk of unification of India and Pakistan would have been acceptable (if it was called India). But not after the attack on India’s parliament, the heart of our democracy. Who in their right senses would want to unite India which will be the world’s 3rd biggest ecocnomy in a few decades with Pakistan that is begging for economic aid from America and Europe.
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There is a general feeling that China will be easily able to defeat India if there is ever a war between the two countries. This seems to originate from what happened in the 1962 war. My thought is that if China ever decides to attack India, it will have to face the more matured Indian military which has been fighting and winning wars since 1962. Meanwhile the Chinese have lost a border war with Vietnam. The soldiers of PLA (People’s Liberation Army) do not have any real war experience when compared to Indian Army which fought and won the Kargil war in a mountainous terrain. And the motivation of the people of free India to repel an attack would be more as witnessed after the 26/11 terrorist attacks. People including me will volunteer in the millions to fight such a war, whereas China will force its oppressed people to join the PLA and fight the war. Even when India was an occupied country during World War II, we had the largest volunteer army in the world while America and other countries had to use the draft to make their people to fight.
I am not going to say India will defeat China or China will defeat India. It will all be decided by the terrain the war is fought in, how widespread the war will be, and the resolve of the people to fight a long and costly war.
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Global warming – is it a myth or reality. Sometimes I wonder if the human caused global warming is a myth created by the developed countries. When you look at the history of the earth for the last few thousand years, it has gone through dramatic climate changes from extreme heat to extreme cold without human interference.
The developed countries have polluted the earth for the last 200 years to build their infrastructure and economies. Now as the developing countries are competing against them and slowly rising as economic powers, they could have created this myth to keep the developing countries from crossing them in economic might. I am not saying that India should pollute as it rises economically, but at the same time it should not be forced to pay for the mistakes made by the west. One might argue that all the scientists are saying we are causing global warming, then you can argue that a few centuries back all the scientists of that era believed the earth was flat. Everybody believes in something until the next invention or discovery is made to disprove it, then the next cycle begins.
There is another example of how these countries would use double standards. During the 80′s and 90′s as India was fighting Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Punjab and Kashmir, the Indian police and armed forces were criticized for human rights violations. After 9/11 and the same terrorists attacked USA, people were arrested without any charges, tortured, humiliated and killed. There is no one talking about human rights anymore. In the 90′s it was human rights, now its global warming and next they might use some other ploy. But at the same time we should try to avoid polluting the earth whether it is a cause for global warming or not.
We may cause the demise of some species and the growth of others. And in the end even if we cause our own extinction, life on earth will go on. The time of the humans on earth for the last few thousand years is insignificant when compared to the age of the earth and the changes it has gone through.
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