India @ 60

India @60:

Exactly 60 years back, the constitution of India, an excellent document with a road map for independent India has come in to existence. Some of the cardinal features such as pluralism, equality, equal opportunity,democracy and freedom; This document could come in to function because of great selfless effort, supreme sacrifices, hardship and imprisonment of many.

What is your role?
Did we contribute anything to this process? Did any of our family members fought for the independence, jailed or killed? In most cases, the answer is obvious NO. and yet we are enjoying the fruits of this constitution. In this context, what should we do? What is expected of us? If we behave with responsibility towards our constitution and uphold the spirit and letter, perhaps that is all required. Isn’t simpler, easy and safer than the one millions people sacrificed their wealth, health and lives to get this freedom and an excellent constitution?
Our constitution, there by the republic continues to have several challenges. Some of the recent ones include Region, language, ethnicity etc, which have been started and abetted by some selfish politicians, are threatening the very relevance of the constitution. Why is it happening, who is doing it? The days of yore, when Gandhi, Vinobha, Bose,Shastry, Prakasam panthulu, who gave up everything for the country are a distant fairy dream. Long gone!
These days the politics have become professional commerce and big money making activity. It is a well publicized fact that many rowdy sheeters, murderers, dons, Indian origin suspects and rapists have fought the last election and some have won. What kind of governance, can we expect from these people?
The father of the nation, Gandhi has become an advertisement material for this unscrupulous present era politicians. Using his photographs, and statues for publicity and press coverage, Much like, the beauty pageant participants speaking eloquently on mother Theresa and land up in the movie sets after the event. White cap, Garlanding the Gandhi statue on Oct 2 and forgetting even routine maintenance thereafter, is routine and visible across the country. In several places that I had worked, I have seen the statue of Gandhi, unkempt and neglected; in contrast, statues of small time controversial politicians maintained extremely well !.
Recently, Our state govt reacting to the tragic death of YSR, several crores of rupees have been earmarked for statues and parks. By that count, what should be done to Gandhi’s legacy?

India’s time has come!
Many international experts across all corners of the world, repeatedly keep saying that this is india's time! it is quite easy to find the reasons behind this. We have the largest (>30%) populations younger than 40 years of age, most productive age. Most of them have english capabilities; india yet to build roads, express ways, ports, airports and other infrastructure, large consumer economy. therefore there is big oppurtunity for growth and development leading to prosperity. Time is not static and it is always moving. How do we make of this unique oppurtunity. we should be doing by enhancing capabilities and skills of our young students. create more universities, more institutes, more colleges, more schools, more vocational institutes, labs, technology training, language skills etc... this is the way forward to utilise this vast wealth of youth population, for productive and positive outcome.
what exactly is happening now. we are provoking them and teaching them to burn buses, trains,attack and destroy businesses, shutdown colleges and universities,lost focus on academics. by these , the result would be youth that is inadequately skilled, misdirected, rowdy, prone for violence and obstruction. One need not try hard to imagine the negative consequences this would have for us. India's time, by then, would have gone!. We wouldn't need the pakisthan and china's help to destroy us. we would have done it for ourselves !