SOME TIME IN EARLY 80's WHEN I WAS IN GUJARAT, A PLACE CALLED ATUL, I HAPPEND TO HEAR MR. PALKIWALA, WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM RELINQUISHING HIS POSITION AS AMBASSADOR. DURING HIS VISIT AND ADDRESS IN VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES, THE ONE QUESTION THAT HE COULDN'T ANSWER TO HIS SATISFACTION WAS 'WHILE FEW AMONG TOP 50 IN ALL THOSE UNIVERSITIES ARE INDIANS, WHY INDIA, WITH SUCH TALENTED MANPOWER REMAIN AS UNDERDEVELOPED AND NOT DEVELOPED'. HE EXPLAINED TO US THAT IT'S THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS, KEEPING THE COUNTRY 'UNDER-DEVELOPED' INSPITE OF SUCH VAST RESOURCES. HIS STATEMENT IS ALL THE MORE RELEVANT EVEN TODAY. TODAY ALL POLITICIANS CLAIM THAT THEY ARE 'FOR PEOPLE' WHEREAS THE STORY IS THE OPPOSITE. WHILE IN RULING PARTY THEY DON'T WANT CRITICISM AND CLAIM WHATEVER THEY AREDOING IS GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE SAME POLITICIANS WHEN IN OPPOSITION CLAIM WHATEVER RULING PARTY IS 'ANTI-PEOPLE'. WHO WILL SAVE THIS COUNTRY FROM SUCH ELEMENTS?? BESIDES OF LATE WE HAVE TOO MANY POLITICIAL PARTIES, I CALL THEM AS 'UNEMPLOYED' AND 'NON-EMPLLOYABLES' ELSEWHERE AND I WISH THAT WE GET A LEADER WHO BOLDLY EARMARKS SOME FUNDS AS 'POLITICAL FUND' AND KEEP SUCH ELEMENTS AWAY FROM DAY-TO-DAY TINKERING.
