We get what we deserve.....
The election results in a few states are out. When I looked at the front page of today's newspaper, it struck me that most of the potential CMs are apparently ageing gentlemen, with some of them struggling to even walk or talk at length without gasping for breath. Isn't it an irony that a country, which has such a huge population and blessed with some of the best minds in the world is unfortunate or incapable of having young enthusiastic leaders to guide and steer it foreward???
Where are the highly educated, intellectual, sensitive, charismatic youth of our country hiding? Have they all gone into permenant hibernation, to resurface only in the glassy air-conditioned corporate corridors? Yes, when i make this allegation, i know i am equally to be blamed, because i too like the rest decided to invest my education, energy and time in the corporate world. But, i still wonder why? Why can't some of the bright minds that pass out of IIMs and the other top notch business schools think of politics as a career and endeavour to inspire and change the destiny of India? Ofcourse, I hear there are a bunch of IITians out there who have formed a political party, now lets idealistically hope more like them join the fray and root out corruption, poverty, child labour and the like from the face of our country once and for all.
Finally, we have no right to grumble about the vicissitudes of our politics or economy or anything, because we truly and factually get what we deserve...If we are endowed with the sensibility to entrust our destinies in the hands and minds of these tired greying gentlemen, then we need the good sense to accept the ups and downs of their governance too.
The election results in a few states are out. When I looked at the front page of today's newspaper, it struck me that most of the potential CMs are apparently ageing gentlemen, with some of them struggling to even walk or talk at length without gasping for breath. Isn't it an irony that a country, which has such a huge population and blessed with some of the best minds in the world is unfortunate or incapable of having young enthusiastic leaders to guide and steer it foreward???
Where are the highly educated, intellectual, sensitive, charismatic youth of our country hiding? Have they all gone into permenant hibernation, to resurface only in the glassy air-conditioned corporate corridors? Yes, when i make this allegation, i know i am equally to be blamed, because i too like the rest decided to invest my education, energy and time in the corporate world. But, i still wonder why? Why can't some of the bright minds that pass out of IIMs and the other top notch business schools think of politics as a career and endeavour to inspire and change the destiny of India? Ofcourse, I hear there are a bunch of IITians out there who have formed a political party, now lets idealistically hope more like them join the fray and root out corruption, poverty, child labour and the like from the face of our country once and for all.
Finally, we have no right to grumble about the vicissitudes of our politics or economy or anything, because we truly and factually get what we deserve...If we are endowed with the sensibility to entrust our destinies in the hands and minds of these tired greying gentlemen, then we need the good sense to accept the ups and downs of their governance too.
posted by Gayathri Varma @ 11:12 PM
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2 Comments:
good one. Indeed all of us are siting pretty taking care of our own lives while the nation rots. Like RDB we need to do something and your article says as much.
Oh yeah we trusted the bright minds and see what they did. I feel cheated for having voted for greenhorns who bwhave exactly the way a third-rate politician would...fighting over caste and money!!!
Buddhadebs and Karunanidhis are any day better administrators than our fiery Mamatas and Jayalalithas!
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