Lets all go on hunger strike to change things in Goa. Lots of things we can go on hunger strike about............
1. Indiscriminate mining 2. Corruption 3. Filth and garbage everywhere 4. Haphazard traffic 5. English and Marathi in our schools instead of only Konkani, and on and on and on....................... Forget about the democratic process, where power comes from the ballot box, and the party or persons who get the majority get to govern. Now we have a short cut to get our way.....call a press conference and declare a hunger strike till death ! (fat chance of any one dying of hunger it is all theatrics....doctors will proclaim that the faster is on the verge of death, prominent persons will appeal to the faster to give up his/her fast, and on some pretext the "fast until death" will come to an end) No I am not belittling recent events in India. But havent things gone too far ?? Persons with some name recognition, petulantly playing on the emotions of those who look up to them, go on hunger strike giving un-achievable deadlines or else !!! Sounds like blackmail to me. Now, I am all for removal of corruption and corrupt officials and bringing back ill-begotten gains to the country, if they are adjudicated to be such. But this is a democracy and collectively the people's voice is supreme, Not the voice of one person or a handful of persons claiming to be civil society. And yes I am just as frustrated as anybody else with the slow pace of change and the slow grinding wheels of justice. Unlike some of the countries in the Arab world where tyrants ruled, India is a democracy. Not a perfect democracy, but as good a democracy as any place else. So we cant mimic what the citizens did in those Arab countries. All political parties should respect the rule of law and remember that they too will have their turn to rule. What they forget is that the un-democratic means that they support are like a two edged sword that will come back to haunt them when they are back in power. Jai Hind !
