Wednesday, November 07, 2007

What's wrong?

  • We claim to be a "healthy" democracy. But people like Narendra Modi and Ananth Singh keep on eating away at this health. Meanwhile the political circus in Karnataka makes a mockery of democracy.
  • West Bengal claims to have a communist government. Not that I am taking any sides but how ironic then of CPI-M workers fighting for an SEZ in Nandigram.
  • We are around 8% GDP growth rate. Our software exports are increasing. However, solutions for smaller technical challenges like roads that do not dissolve away with the first rain seem to elude us. A largely agricultural economy lies waste with farmers in almost all parts of our country impoverished and taking to suicides. When one passes through our country side it is a sorry picture of large numbers of people tending to small patches of land. Our rural economy continues to be largely inefficient, over employing and producing a lot lesser than it could.
  • We want to be like the Australia when it comes to cricket. But when an out of form Dravid is dropped the whole nation screams.
A lot is wrong. A lot should change.

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