These are the times when population of youth is at high on percentage in the recent history of India. The kind of Democracy which tolerated corrupted political leaders incompetent people in power warrant a change now. The people of this nation should awake from the lull which allowed many social evils to thrive.
Social concerns like poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, etc., still out there in large scale in India.
Gender inequality and violence against woman and children are at large.
Sustained development could not spread to the whole India and there are still large portion of the nation fare poorly at various social development scales, and long periods of dissatisfaction and contempt on governance resulting in law and order problems, insurgency and terrorism.
Religion, caste, gender, money etc are still used to divide the nation by people in power to achieve their selfish motives and to ensure their existence.
They failed to safeguard the wealth of nature and natural resources and importance of protecting our forests took a back seat in policy making in the prospect of short sited commercial benefits and we now bear the burnt of environmental degradation and unpredictable climate changes that affects the badly affects the main livelihood and key sector of the nation, agriculture.
The politics in India, means a profession where a person can profit financially and in terms of authoritative power over a group of people, which is totally different from its word meaning:
"The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs."(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/politics)
But with current scenarios and experiences of the many generations of people after Independence, the word 'politics' can be given a new meaning as:
"The art or science of cheating and exploiting the people of a nation in the name of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs."
A political party means a group of people who adopts a particular set of ideologies and line of action to influence and exploit a majority among the population and they will faithfully and bluntly cover each other's back when they face any questions or challenges from the public on their selfish motives.
The politicians have failed to deliver on the promises of democracy. The people who are elected by the people , for the people became myopic and can no longer see, hear or understand the demands and concerns of the very people who elected them to lead and represent in nation building beyond the possibility of exploiting. And in the current scenario we see people gathering en masse and coming out in the open very often, conducting mass protests, strikes and processions to voice their concerns and demands to the government, which more often uses highly efficient political tactics and succeeds either in changing the people's attention from the demands at hand or accepts it to be thrown into the long churning machinery of bureaucracy and policy making, later.
The current spur in mass protests and gatherings hints at growing dissatisfaction among the public, and the danger of anarchy which rises from failure of democracy, lurks in the corner.
It is beyond doubt, Democracy is the best available tool to govern and guide a nation forward. But with the experiences we have had as a democratic nation, it is clear that democracy in our nation requires more control features and transparency in governance to stop corruption and inefficiency and also it should be able to attract more skilled and young people to power.
Social concerns like poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, etc., still out there in large scale in India.
Gender inequality and violence against woman and children are at large.
Sustained development could not spread to the whole India and there are still large portion of the nation fare poorly at various social development scales, and long periods of dissatisfaction and contempt on governance resulting in law and order problems, insurgency and terrorism.
Religion, caste, gender, money etc are still used to divide the nation by people in power to achieve their selfish motives and to ensure their existence.
They failed to safeguard the wealth of nature and natural resources and importance of protecting our forests took a back seat in policy making in the prospect of short sited commercial benefits and we now bear the burnt of environmental degradation and unpredictable climate changes that affects the badly affects the main livelihood and key sector of the nation, agriculture.
The politics in India, means a profession where a person can profit financially and in terms of authoritative power over a group of people, which is totally different from its word meaning:
"The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs."(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/politics)
But with current scenarios and experiences of the many generations of people after Independence, the word 'politics' can be given a new meaning as:
"The art or science of cheating and exploiting the people of a nation in the name of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs."
A political party means a group of people who adopts a particular set of ideologies and line of action to influence and exploit a majority among the population and they will faithfully and bluntly cover each other's back when they face any questions or challenges from the public on their selfish motives.
The politicians have failed to deliver on the promises of democracy. The people who are elected by the people , for the people became myopic and can no longer see, hear or understand the demands and concerns of the very people who elected them to lead and represent in nation building beyond the possibility of exploiting. And in the current scenario we see people gathering en masse and coming out in the open very often, conducting mass protests, strikes and processions to voice their concerns and demands to the government, which more often uses highly efficient political tactics and succeeds either in changing the people's attention from the demands at hand or accepts it to be thrown into the long churning machinery of bureaucracy and policy making, later.
The current spur in mass protests and gatherings hints at growing dissatisfaction among the public, and the danger of anarchy which rises from failure of democracy, lurks in the corner.
It is beyond doubt, Democracy is the best available tool to govern and guide a nation forward. But with the experiences we have had as a democratic nation, it is clear that democracy in our nation requires more control features and transparency in governance to stop corruption and inefficiency and also it should be able to attract more skilled and young people to power.
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