Silent In Ruins

If pro is the opposite of con, then is congress the opposite of progress? This city is a personified and justified answer to the above question. Being in absolute shambles all you can see is rubble around from torn down buildings and construction work left midway, this place resembles a large town rather than a city. Is this India Shinning At 60 where we need a convicted criminal to teach us about Gandhigiri? How can you call it the glorious years of India when majority of the population who being fickle-minded, are ready to idolize a goon, an idolism which borders on fanaticism and at the very next moment will turn vindictive if an iota of negativity is found in him. What do you call this country democratic, capitalist or socialist where the rich get away with anything from embezzlement of funds to manslaughter? On the other hand the less privileged are left to languish in the miseries of their wrong doings. Why doesn’t a single news channel air the clippings of the ’93 blasts where hundreds lost their lives while countless others were maimed? Instead of proclaiming what could have happened we might as well be shown the hard reality. Makes me wonder if there would have been a common man in place of the actor would there have been a similar public response? The answer is obvious and stares at me hard in the face, there would not have been such an outpour of mass sympathy. This outpour of sympathy and support is nothing but a case of psychosis.
Moving closer home the administrative offices in educational institutions are no better, where a person has to pay an exorbitant amount to extract his/her original certificates from the cabinets of these very offices. A student is charged for every piece of paper collected from the office with the added bonus of absolute insolent behavior from the office staff. The teaching staff refuses to take up any responsibility whatsoever and their only concern is the completion of the syllabus irrespective of whether the students have grasped the concept or not. If this is the quality of education imparted to the present generation it is not surprising as to where our generation is heading.
They say what you sow, you reap. Well if this is what we are sowing today which has lost all touch with reality, realization of the meaning of life and ultimately morality I can only but imagine what we are going to reap.