Politicians or Termites ?

The termites are a group of social insects feeding mostly on dead plant material, wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung BUT as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests.

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. This includes people who hold decision-making positions in government, and people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, coupe, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest, right of inheritance or other means. Politics are not limited to governance through public office.

After 61 years of freedom, we are still dreaming of clean drinking water, uninterrupted power supply, Security, protection from terrorsists and justice from the courts. We keep looking for leadership and good governanace from our elected representatives. We keep dreaming of a good life, which need not be wrapped in luxury, but one where one gets reasonably priced vegetables, pulses and others things that would go into a simple square meal. We dream of living in peace. We still dream of gender equality.

So many parliament and assembly elections have passed us by and we still are looking for clean politicians who want to take the country forward. That elected representatives even take money to ask questions in parliament leaves very little to be said. And we think we are a booming democracy.

But how can democracy succeed when half of India is illiterate and cannot figure out that it is not caste in an election that is most important but governance. But if you look at todays scenario - the politicians are doing what the Britishers did a century back - DIVIDE and RULE. As you can see, History repears itself - in one form or the other.

We try to romanticize everything to escape the hurt and the reality. We talk of how we are a great culture and how we are so diverse and still together. We take pride in telling everyone how Bombay is the city where the spirit of Bombay never dies. What spirit are we talking about here? Let us use our commonsense here, the people have a never say die attitude because they need to earn the daily bread and butter. They have no choice but to resume work no matter what - else they will be thrown out and someone else will take their place. In todays competetive and cut-throat competetion its difficult to survive if you do not add value to what you are doing.

Freedom has no meaning if it cannot improve our lives. It must add value to our lives and not let us slip into a degenerative state. Look at our power situation. Every city has a power cut. And, villages go without power for most part of the day. We waste power everyday. Most towns in India shamelessly have fixed hours where darkness descends daily. No one protests. We are slowly becoming a nation of impotent people led by wimps (politicians).

We want the Defence Minister to know the value of a jawaan. We want the Education Minister to know the power of literacy. We DO NOT want him to change the history books to suit his party’s line. We want our Home Minister to be strong enough to allow the law to proceed against a politician who has been found with millions of rupees stashed away in his bedroom. We want a
Law Minister who will not allow his judges be trampled by political pressure.

We misinterpreted freedom. We thought it was okay when a politician spent millions of rupees shopping for sarees, jewellery and slippers. We voted politicians into power who have criminal cases against them. We used our freedom to permit them to destroy our present and future.
We did not use freedom to improve our lives and to make India one of the greatest countries of the world. Inorder, to make India a secure and better place to live in we need to terminate the termites. We have given our valubale freedom in the hands of a few selfish, sel-centred, egoistic and political bitches - we need to take it back and we need to act on it now. Its now or never !!