Questions from an ordinary Indian..

Imagine a place for 50 people filled with at least some 100+ people. Imagine a place where people climbing over each other to get in or out, people pushing you to pass through.  China mobiles screaming out loud music. Some were chatting. Some were shouting. Some were laughing. Some even wore a look of desperation in their faces. I was standing there, at the rear end of the bus. Back then, getting out of the bus seemed to be my only wish for the entire life time. That was a painful journey. No human being on this earth should have to travel like that. I just asked myself whether these kind of packed bus journeys have become so normal to people?

I just leaned against the side of a seat. It was suffocating. I couldn't move. All that I could do was to ask some more questions to myself. The bus went by the side of a bridge.
Why/How do people live under these bridges..?
Why there is a luxurious building and next to it people living in streets..?

When I looked outside the bus, I saw people traveling in two wheelers
with their faces, hands and eyes covered like terrorists.

Why there is so much dust in the air..? Why there is trash everywhere you go..?  



Why does the bus conductor issue more number of tickets than seats..?
Why do many Indians does not know the difference between street roads and public toilets..?
Why do people bath in railway stations..?
Why do we call India a secular country where caste-ism and racial discrimination are deep rooted in the minds of people..?
Why every other country in the world is respecting the Indian culture except Indians..?
Why do Indians fight to call themselves backward..?
   “Reservation ought to be given on the basis of worth, not merely on the basis of birth” 
                                                                                             - Mahatma Gandhi
 Lokpal, RTE - WTF..?
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endless questions.. and at last-
Is India anywhere near in becoming world super power..?

    
Many would argue that India's economy is one of the fastest growing in the world. I would say that their obsession with GDP has gone to an extent of being called as a psychological disorder. It is the outcome of their desire that their country should be viewed by others as a fast developing or an emerging country.

What India's years of GDP growth has done to the lives of Malnutritioned children..?
In What way the economic development of India has improved the lives of impoverished..?
Is India atleast qualified enough to be considered a probable candidate for future super power?

When I try to answer these questions, I couldn't. I don't want to. I feel ashamed to accept the failure of my nation. Some of these questions may seem to be immature. But, it is these questions which confound me, which infuriate me every day. When I try to find an answer to these questions, it almost makes me to hate India.

I find myself many times wishing I had some power - power that could quickly heal the wounds of everyone and everything around me - power that could change fear to comfort - power that could  convert the tears of sadness into tears of joy.  But then, after seeing what some people, who already have these powers(you don't have to be GOD to do these), have done to India on a daily basis, I realize I might just quickly burn everyone to the ground - if I have the power.

You should not consider me either a patriotic person for writing about India. Neither should you consider me as disloyal or unpatriotic just because some simple questions make me to hate India. I am just like you- just like you and everyone out there. I am just a simple middle class Indian - just one among many self-centered, ungenerous contemporary Indians.
   
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country – JRD Tata