After India attained independence, a lot was expected from the governments of independent India. India was a very prosperous country during the period of middle ages and attracted the traders, philosophers and looters/ invaders from 1000AD onwards. India became poor and backward as a result of loot/ arson , barbarism and cruelties by firstly Muslim invaders and rulers and finally by British Colonisers.
India attained independence in 1947 and about the same time Germany, Japan, France etc started building up their war wrecked nations with the help of Marshall Plan. China started its march towards prosperity from 1949 onwards after the communists came into power. India also started around the same time. Western European countries and Japan became prosperous by 1960. But sadly India remained a poor and under developed country and continues to be the same even after seventy odd years.
Where did we fail? We had the wherewithal for becoming prosperous but we squandered all the opportunities to become prosperous. In this failure two things stand out and even today unless we mend our ways we will keep on rotting and yearning for a reasonably comfortable life for our masses. The first and foremost failure on the part of Indian polity of all hues, belonging to any of the left, right or centre ideology was the ability to keep a largely honest and God fearing nation as a corruption free nation. In fact the polity of independent India gave the nation ' The Philosophy of Corruption Empowerment ' , so much so that the CORRUPTION EMPOWERED CABAL that came into prominence in all walks of life is fighting tooth and nail any effort to mitigate this ecosystem - the bane of seven decades of independent India . Many people from amongst the haves of India will tend to disagree but cannot deny the crude reality of India that no government, no bureaucracy, no judiciary, no intelligentsia, no media has ever raised its voice for bringing the problem to light, leave apart finding a solution to destroy this demon.From time to time every class has talked of corruption by their opponents, not for punishing the culprits or finding a solution to mitigate this devil, but to gain an access to power so as to enable themselves to be the share holders in this national loot.The second failure on the part of India has been in seeing only the stomach to be fed with every human being rather than two hands that can add to the earnings and prosperity of the nation.This can either be a case of WRONG ECONOMICS OR WRONG INTENTIONS. The unintentional wrongs can be rectified after some time but the continuity of thought process and the lack of will and effort in making the list of genuine beneficiaries devoid of duplicates and fakes is a strong pointer to the deep faith in the philosophy of corruption empowerment.
It is time the nation and the leadership understands the importance of Corruption Mitigation and Good Governance - The Biggest Growth Engines for Indian Economy. Now that we have the Aadhaar platform and the power of computers, information technology and data management available in the country, we will have to blame ourselves if we do not force the government to cleanse the system of fake and duplicate everywhere, be it the census, citizenry, ration cards and subsidies, voter lists, bank accounts, PAN accounts, real estate owners etc., etc. , the resistance and excuses from CORRUPTION EMPOWERED CABAL in the name of privacy not withstanding.
My last appeal to the hapless masses of India.
