According to the news reports India is progressing at an unprecedented rate. And I agreeto a certain extent, but the only thing is that I actually don't see any progression in our civilization, thought processes, intellect, understanding... Either I have totally different sensibilities or the country is really regressing against progressing...
In any sector, area or place we can see examples of such regression. Maharashtra asking Mr. Bachchan to give more to the state, People asking for more reservations, crime going over and above any limits we have ever seen, Farmers commiting more suicide and the list goes on and on...
What troubles me are various factors. As I see it, there is a certain divide across the population of India; this divide I characterize on the basis of age factor (not necessarily the fact, but taken for simplicity of the argument), so the generation which is studying is the younger generation, their parents along with near retirement age people are the older generation and the middle sect which comprises of few year old college graduates to 10-15 years of experienced folks are the mid generation.
- The younger generation has little understanding of our culture, traditions, outlook and the society we know now as India. They love music, movies etc. love to emulate them without thinking about the consequences, have no responsibility towards most of the important things in life, think money is really a part of all the money-plants which their parents have at home...
- The older generation has lost the battle with all the odds of life and have de-coupled themselves from the thought process of developing India. In the instances of politicians or leaders, they only sow bad seeds and I have really started believing in "Kalyug" as they actually reap rich rewards of these bad seeds...
- The mid generation is busy in making lots and lots of moolah. Now these guys (unfortunately I am also the part of this generationa dn might very well fit into the category I am describing) they just want to leave India to dogs and earn money on selling these dogs as a faithful animal to any western/eastern country.
At the receiving end is the future of this country which might actually end up going backwards rather than forward. Some of the fellows who try to work against the generic flow are either "neutralised" or they never acheive their objective or they get confused with the right direction...
I have seen (and was very shocked) so many educated people writing across various blogs, without any respect towards others' freedom (of speech, of rights, of values, of religion...).
The irony of it all is that we still call ourselves the epitome of civilizations, claiming that Bharat is the oldest civilizations on this earth. But we dont behave like a civilization at all.... we emulate the other countries in what-so-ever extent possible and consider ourselves to be their equivalent. We forget the fact that our identity is our individuality, our ability to think progressive, our ability to find simpler solutions to complex problems and not copying from other region, religion, area, country or civilization.
