Vikas तो डुबे

“Vikas” - is dead in its true sense in the country called India – Who was “Vikas”? Vikas was the one who walked back home 1000 kms in lockdown because there was no food, no money, no job and no shelter at his work place “Vikas” was also the one who hanged himself because he could not able to repay the loan what he took against his farm land in Maharashtra or in many parts of India. He was also a “Vikas” who casted his vote in the name of “everyone’s companionship and progress” he died too. Those were also “Vikas”, who slept forever on railroad on their way back home at the time of lockdown. “Vikas” died of hunger at his village waiting for 5kgs of grains.

The story of “Vikas” has not ended as yet, now a new “Vikas” will be born or maybe he is a toddler somewhere by now. “Vikas to Hoga” – Who is “Vikas” now? Probably, that will be decided by the national political party or regional political party of our country soon. We as an individual have a tendency to forgetting things faster and this is a drawback for India as country but an advantage for a political setup in the country. “Vikas” will be a model of projecting India becoming self-reliant. And we as a citizen of this country will again come in the delusion of some political party. 

Every time we do the same mistake and we did not want to learn from our mistakes as well, because we are so occupied in our day to day life that we hardly wants to think beyond our kitchen these days and when things will be little better our thinking will take a plunge in few other materialistic pleasures of life which we can afford at that point of time which will be post Corona time. This Corona has put a break on our thinking and economy, because of which our purchasing power has weaken otherwise we would have enjoying the party at this time as well.    

When you think about people rich people like Tata’s, Mahindra’s or Reliance nationally and internationally P&G’s, Hindustan Liver etc. you will come to know, they all have long term goals to achieve from a business project in which they invest. They spend lot of money on studying the human behavior, preferences and choices for a particular product. I give you an example of sanitary pad from P&G – the company goes to an extend to change the color of the packing according to the target audience’s age. Purposes like these i.e. R&D of human behavior they sponsor researchers to do their Ph. d on human psychology in big universities of the world. That means the money is been spent on earning more money. It’s mental; imagine how deep they want to penetrate it’s a different ball game all together and because of this advance planning they are successful. And also don’t have any competitor in their respective markets.  

Now our political parties especially who thinks they are in a business (although every political party is in a business these days) have started working on these line as well. And the time will come when they’ll be having no opposition/competition whatsoever. And everything will be done in the democratic system of the country without any objections.  Mark my words we have started moving towards a system in our country where what so ever has been told to us by the ruling party we’ll accept it as it is, and also appreciate their decisions later on. How much time and money is being spent to achieve their respective goals one can’t even imagine.

Solutions: - raise your question even if you like it. Do ask why? You have to make them accountable. How? It depends on case to case basis. Executives and Legislature are going hand in hands these days – this will only change when we’ll ask question. Out of three pillars of democracy – two have become very weak they are Judiciary and the Executives. Although, directly we can’t do anything but those who are in there have to act swiftly, otherwise it will be too late for the country.

2 – We have seen the two types of government in last 30 years – a coalition government and an absolute majority government. Although for the countries benefit it is always recommended the absolute majority Party should rule the country but it has to be a party who should rule but not an individual in the party it is very harmful for the country. My understanding with present system says - we should fly against the wind in democracy. According to the time and need we should also change and put the country first in our priority. I always say if the country stays we will stay. At present it seems coalition could have been a better option because it will be having many power centers and with that at least democracy would have flourished.  

“Vikas” should have taken place in the country but it has got stuck in made up chaotic system of political parties in our country. That is it about “Vikas” and I myself is looking for “Vikas”. Welcome to the 21^st Century India.