Today as I was going through a newspaper article named "Rebuilding India" in which the progress of India is being glorified, I started thinking differently. Does development mean building infrastructure only? What about character building? I think the most important developmental index of a nation is measured by the character of her people. The first picture an Indian draws about another Indian is of disbelief. People in Indian cities are highly insensitive about other people. Fellow-feeling is just absent in cities.
The first taste of the insensitivity of the government officials that I had tasted was when I was selected as a Trainee Executive Engineer in a so-called premier PSU of India. Being an Electronics & TeleComm engineer, till today I cannot understand why I was rejected in the medical test of that organization on the basis of the fact that I have partial color-blindness. Even today I wonder, was there really any work done in that organization that I could not do because of this genetic disorder? And this happened in the year 1994 when a good job was really scarce.
Today our country is sitting on a time bomb which will blast anyday. We have created many divisions and hiearchy in our society. Besides digital division between the haves and have-nots, we have created quota division, SC-ST-OBC-General division, Hindu-Muslim-Christian division, APL-BPL division, english-speaking/non-english speaking division.
These days if someone switches on a TV news channel, he/she can hardly become excited about the progress of the nation. There will invariably be news of rape,murder, molestation, kidnapping or some political bluff.
All these make me wonder is India really "shining"?
