A new system will come and lead the world to a better tomorrow. That system will evolve from knowledge. Knowledge to “live better”. Knowledge that will shatter the colonial parliament. Will establish new parliament based on knowledgeable constitutation. Where each word will be based on facts, chosen by its own people. Not just because it exsists in someone else’s constitution. People will be knowledgable for every aspect of life. They will not just live and die. But each will live, to make life meaningful.

I hope for that day atleast in my grandson’s lifetime

Poor education is an essential for maintaining the political status quo.

Poor infrastructure is essential for maintianing the power of babus/politicians to grant favours to industries.

Poverty is essential for making usre the bar is always set low come election time.

So there.

I think that in your answer to that question, you are making the mistake that actually holds us back. You are blaming the government for everything.

Actually, it’s not the mistakes of a few that held us back. It is the collective mistakes of everyone, the tendency to blame everything on the government, and hoping that the government will get better.

I don’t think that’s how things will go down. Everyone needs to do their part. Sure, if the government is doing something wrong, blame it. But did everyone else do the right things for progress? Or did they just lie about waiting for the government to solve all the problems? I think it’s the latter problem.

It never was about how bright/smart Indians are. The thing we lack is a soft skill: the willingness to take things into our own hands and make big changes happen. Citizens have to self-organize into groups that are doing useful things on an everyday basis, but this is what doesn’t happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII

http://www.wildersontrial.com/

Touching OT !

Where do you see that child 15-20 years from now ?

Nothing to say more….explains it all…

I (like countless others) can relate to the passion in the above post.

But, where do we start?

My thoughts – The issue is accountability. It is conspicuously absent from all branches of government. Accountability has to be laid down by rule and statute. Something like
“If there is a pot hole on SV Road between Goregaon and Jogeshwari, it shall be the responsibility of the Assistant Engineer etc”

Second, there should be hard punishment for dereliction of duty. This is simply not there, or not severe enough. Let’s say a plant operator in a cement factory forgets to turn off a critical valve and ruins an entire batch of cement. What happens to him? Right. He loses his job and his career. But a school teacher who remains absent from a government school for years, ruining an entire batch of young minds gets …what?

But the problem is that the accountability regime can be ushered in only by the guys who will be adversely affected by it. This like asking Tiger Woods to practice celibacy. Not going to happen without coercion.

A revolution of thought is our only hope. Perhaps the changing knowledge chains and information channels will trigger that.

Precisely. It breaks my heart every bloody time. Little children neglected by a society that is so desperately poor that it cannot afford even the basics needed for a decent existence. And that too in this day and age — hundred years after humanity knows how to do things. What went wrong? The leadership. Time to expose these assholes.