Despite having independence for 60 years, the political & bureaucratic systems work against the common man. He is used by these people day in and day out and is a victim of false promises.
Our democracy is nothing to shout about. It has not benefited anybody. The rich & the educated hardly participate in our democracy as they do not even vote. The rich can around the system while for the educated, the whole world is at their feet, provided they are enterprising.
Our politicians use every opportunity to stay in power. They make fools of the people and create one controversy after another. There are no national interests for them, only self interests. What they oppose tooth & nail while out of power, they support while in power. They can join with anybody to stay afloat.
Our infrastructure cannot compare with any developed nation and much inferior to China. While one can get decent accomodation at even less than $50, we cannot imagine that in our supposed poor country. The main reason is our system, which prevents business entrepreurship. There is no transparency and one has to get to our babus for basic needs. Our IT people implement hands on internet in many countries, while we are riddled with our antiquated cobwebs.
No wonder we pay unheard of of prices of basic hotel rooms which cost 5 times of that in other countries. Unless we get out of the frog in the well mentality, our progress will be limited and we can only wonder at China's giant steps.
