It’s that time in our democracy, that we as citizens get a much closer look and probably some, a chance to hear, speak and voice opinions to our leaders to whom we refer to as politicians, and boy do we seldom have a good thing to say about them. In most cases, everyone of us that includes me too, might have emptied out our wrath in abuses and disgust about a particular politician especially when something dint go our way, after all you only get them once in 5 years, and its been the same throughout many will argue, and this goes on and on and on…
But my point in question is: look around for once and take a closer look at your surrounding, India is not the same as it used to be, the progress made is fast and steady, and we’re still getting better. For starters lets take the example for the mobile phone, a technologically luxury once, today it is a necessity, even my local newspaper vendor has one. Or for that matter we all complain about traffic jams but why don’t we complain about buying a new vehicle, just because its so much more easier to get your bike or car, and it doesn’t stop there, most of the tier 1 cities are have excellent facilities and with the mall culture here to stay, our country is surely getting a makeover.
The development story may not be translating to all strata’s of society, but it will eventually, bureaucracy isn’t a new phenomenon, and in a country like India where its population was once considered a bane, it has now become a boon as its fosters faster growth, there is bound to be slowdown and complains will trickle in forever as you can’t afford to keep a 100 crore people happy all the time, for each has their opinion and in any given situation there are 3 - the proposition, the opposition and the right one.
Hence the next time we get irritated about our good old politicians, lets remind ourselves that its not about them, its also about each one of us, as we make it count, and lets do our bit as John F Kennedy said,
Simply put, all you can do this time around, is take the effort and go cast your VOTE. It will make a difference…
But my point in question is: look around for once and take a closer look at your surrounding, India is not the same as it used to be, the progress made is fast and steady, and we’re still getting better. For starters lets take the example for the mobile phone, a technologically luxury once, today it is a necessity, even my local newspaper vendor has one. Or for that matter we all complain about traffic jams but why don’t we complain about buying a new vehicle, just because its so much more easier to get your bike or car, and it doesn’t stop there, most of the tier 1 cities are have excellent facilities and with the mall culture here to stay, our country is surely getting a makeover.
The development story may not be translating to all strata’s of society, but it will eventually, bureaucracy isn’t a new phenomenon, and in a country like India where its population was once considered a bane, it has now become a boon as its fosters faster growth, there is bound to be slowdown and complains will trickle in forever as you can’t afford to keep a 100 crore people happy all the time, for each has their opinion and in any given situation there are 3 - the proposition, the opposition and the right one.
Hence the next time we get irritated about our good old politicians, lets remind ourselves that its not about them, its also about each one of us, as we make it count, and lets do our bit as John F Kennedy said,
“Ask not what your country can do for you,
but what you can do for your country.”
but what you can do for your country.”
Simply put, all you can do this time around, is take the effort and go cast your VOTE. It will make a difference…