Two things first.

1) It has been observed that i am doing average of 1 blog per 3 months. Kewl !

2) I have come across the blog of Kartik Thakur, a favorite senior of mine. Having a look, i felt like, it should have been mine blog. Not kidding ! I always wish to have such diversified content on hell lot of topics ranging from  World Politics to Religion to Sports to anything. But the problem is that i beat around the bush a lot and forget the main theme and finally lost !

So, the conclusion drawn from the  above two points is that i should blog more often and obviously on different topics.

Year 2007 is being celebrated by Times Group as ‘Year of India’. They have developed some website, have put some of their articles, a national anthem in Amitabh’s voice, are distributing badges with India Poised identity number (i don’t know, how many have taken the printouts of the same !) , but i like their gesture. Afterall, when sharemarket is on rampage, GDP at 9% growth who dares to give voice to the other strata of India, except few like Medha Patekar, the self acclaimed reformer or Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize winner turned cheap popularity gainer or whimsical Mamta. I hope that most of the you must not be liking most of the above names.

I should not be writing about the India Shining campaign, as our wise analysts are  already putting dozens of pages daily in our newspapers and magzines. I have read on 23rd Jan Economic Times, ET-NCAER Business Confidence Survey. There were given a lot of innovative indexes on further more innovative parameters, and in all they have assured us that India has gain momentum in passed fiscal quarter compared to the same in last year.

What disturbs me, is our overdependence on certain persons and industires and to showcase them as true India continually. I know everyone encashes their own stregths and hide their weaknesses but why is present India revolving only around IT,Reliance, and share market. Mind me, these are not the starting days of our reforms but they have already started in 1991 and we are reaping the fruits of good deeds of that time. Shouldn’t by now we should be seeing more success stories in other darker areas? Why still our major and biggest problem of corruption fed politics is at the same place ? Our apex court is intervening in each and every big issue of daily life. Terrorism has reached to deep interiors. When we are nowhere near to solve Kashmir issue, we are making 7 more Kashmirs in the east. We have only 5000 kms of expressways when US has 90000 kms, and China arnd 45000. There is disparity in society. According to India Today survey, there is eye-popping gap in education, health and other issues in muslims and non muslims. We are witnessing new kind of riots, and that of Dalit people on a stride. In this economic pacing era, our major political party has once again turned towards its agenda of Hindutva. We boast of our talent pool, cheap labor but experts are crying of talent crunch. IITs have slumped in their global ranking. People like Narayan Murthy are citing examples from west to learn, but none to listen. There are pardon appeals for terroist like Afzal. We still couldn’t solve the problem of basic amenties like drinking water and education. We are no where near to winning gold in olympics or Oscars or Nobel.

I am nowhere denying the shining face. But its our business, our elite, our entrepreneurs who are doing good, they have started thinking big and global and acquire millions of dollars plant, while a chunk of our population has to travel  around 130 kms a day for earning Rs. 30 (The Hindu,24th January,07). India that is shining is very powerful and visionary, they know how to make their pathways, but our other people still need a helping hand to come out of dirty pit. Let us waste litres of ink on advertising economic reforms and booming bulls but work towards weak people because wasting ink for these people will not feed them or earn them a living.