There is a vast difference between material and spiritual progress. I see today on TV an adivasi family whose son is forced to steal food grains because his old parents and family who are illiterate just cannot get jobs and are starving!.They never heard of right to 100 days labour and the old man says with tears his son is not a criminal. I also saw on TV before I went to the flag hoisting ceremony in our colony,a senior milk federation bureaucrat caught with crores of cash stacked in 4( full to the brim )lockers! Surely he could not accumulate all this alone without others involved! This is shameful .The crores of wasteful expenditure by our Netas is disgraceful and our feting of these unworthies condemnable.None of them indicted is ever in jail or even that preventing them from calling the shots! It is reported that when asked about corrupt practises, MLAs state they are only following traditions! They mean corrupt precedents and so continuous scams go on unnoticed/accepted as "we are like that only".So we have politicians sponsoring applicants for jobs, cash for jobs and votes; distributing money and favours to loyal or potential voters so they come across as philanthropically caring people who can give ration cards and subsidised food grains to their aam admi! Giving such out of turn inducements is not considered as corruption and such bribery is rampant! The enormous damage to the nation by pushing merit into the background and filling jobs with mediocre people is now there for all to see in the inefficiency of every government department with the nations pride at stake in the CWG games . Vande Mataram and Rammi Yum Yum , let us hope on this 64th Independence Day, and THEREAFTER, its time for India!
