Scumbag politicians and clueless citizens are a matched pair. You cannot have one without the other. The criminality of the one is enabled by the cluelessness of the other—and the two are entwined in a dance macabre which is the continued destitution of India.
The interesting question then is what gives rise to this situation? Indians are fairly unremarkable in that they are not genetically programmed to be stupid. They are only as flawed as any other large segment of humanity.
India is not spectacularly gifted natural resource wise (to put it mildly) but neither is it entirely devoid of them. India has not been repeatedly visited by natural catastrophes that periodically send it back to square one. Over the centuries, India has had a fairly stable existence — barring the occasional Islamic invasions murdering a few tens of million infidels. All things considered, India had all the material and human resources to make a go of it. What went wrong? Continue reading “The Rules Rule”
Atanu Dey : Life is a Random Draw 