Life & its meaning!! Most of the times in my daily routine I don't get chance to think about this but sometimes I do and whenever I do I can't find the answer.
Just saw this video:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqIrmxtcoY
and was speechless, had almost tears in my eyes & had this question again why we are doing all of these things. Not even going to anywhere outside my own country. If I just think about what we as Indians doing to our own brothers & sisters, I feel ashamed, more so of myself!
We perhaps would be wasting more money just to keep ahead of ourselves in the arms race pertaining to two of our not so friendly neighbors. According to rough estimates we spend around 2.5-3% of our GDP on our defense but if you include all the salaries & pensions given to military & para-military forces it can come more than 4% of GDP. I don't know what can be this figure after our recent pay revisions, perhaps around 5% of GDP? Even if I take a conservative figure of 4%, for more than $1 trillion economy we are looking around $40 billion!!! That's a jaw dropping figure. I again ask the same question, why? Look to our neighbors on whose name we are doing all of this. People there are starving, like us and they are spending more than 5% of their GDP on this same name, DEFENSE!!
On top of this huge waste our country have got this huge problem of corruption and everything will be fine attitude. We don't mind paying Rs 10 to a parking lot guy so that he put our car in front, we don't mind paying Rs 10,000 to a government officer not to transfer from our preferred location, we don't mind seeing the same govt officer paying Rs 1,00,000 to a minister to do the same and we don't mind seeing the same minister paying Rs 10,00,00,000 to another MP to save his govt!! God when and how this all can end, where at the same time 60% of our people are living on below poverty line (we even came up with a nice branded acronym for it, "BPL"). All of this is there probably more because this 60% population is illiterate, because this 60% population just can't think of anything else than when they can have their next meal, that they don't really care who is writing their destinies - whether it's the so called Dalit and people's representatives like Mayawati and Lalu or in the name of religion dividing the country kind of politician like Mulayam or the real broker who is ready to sell his own mother for the money kind of people like Amar singh or in the name of saving farmers killing the industry kind of politicians like Mamta Bannerjee or in the name of secularism and saving India from nefarious designs of US but at the same time ready to gift the entire country to a communist state like China kind of politician like Prakash Karat and for that matter all damn communists!!
If you look to the greater design of these politicians of our country, their single biggest objective is to rob our country, keep one after the other un-important issues burning and on top of all of these keep people poor. Poor so that they can never think anything other than their next meal, poor so that they can never be educated and uneducated so that they can never question WHY?
I wish we get so much wisdom to think about the dying people in floods of Bihar & Assam before thinking about raising our already ballooned defense expenditure, I wish we can think of almost 60% of our population who are living on less than Rs10 a day before diverting any single penny towards war, I wish our politician going to dharna to force the government to achieve 100% literacry first before trying to close down some factory, I wish we stop electing people who are robbing our country and I wish we start demanding accountability from our all government officers, politicians and ministers!!
