Mumbai Ruined, Is it India Next?

Yesterday in my blog I questioned whether we really possess the fundamental right to life. If people are taken to ransom at gunpoint, if we are subjected to bow down in front of unconstitutional people without a reason and if we are still stating that this system is NOT responsible for all this, we are not doing good to anybody.

The system, this current government and the kind of leadership we currently have is to be blamed and nailed. Democracy has its advantages and has a flip side too. The flip side is that anyone can get away without being labeled or tagged, which means no one shall own the responsibility. If our lives are our responsibility then what's the difference in living in an orderly society and a barbaric one? The leadership has to answer this question.

Secondly, more fundamental than just the immediate leadership is the question of what model of development are we following and at what cost? Are we turning ignorant or blind in the wake of economic development so much so that we have forgotten how to keep our social fabric intact? We curse Europeans for their chauvinism but hell, its time to learn from them. Despite being in the top order of economic development they are equally aware and vigilant about developing their social order, which calls for greater civilian security, greater social harmony and last but not least greatest amount of awareness about their national interests. We, as opposed to them, have not even an iota of nationalistic fervor. And to make the things even worst is our political system/s which allow such things to happen every now and then and still don't take definite steps to curb such criminal acts.

My view is very straight: A piecemeal solution to this problem will never be a permanent cure. We need a fundamental paradigm shift to make things work in our favor. We shall not forget that we may have a civilization that is over 5000 years old but our democracy is not even a century old. It is still very fragile and prone to destruction. And if the keepers of this nation, whom we entrust to run it efficiently are so careless, better look at it with a fresh perspective. We might be approaching a stage of systemic change to live peacefully.