INDEPENDENT INDIA UNDER THE HORRIBLE SHADOW OF CRUSHING ECONOMIC SLAVERY AND TERRORISM

FREDDI JOSEPH
(Chief Editor: Masihi Sansar)

On 15th August 2008 India has entered 61 st year of independence. No doubt in these six long decades India has made a great progress in agriculture and industrial sectors. India had been an agriculture-based country up to the end of British rule. Though she was agriculture based country yet her agriculture sector was not able to fulfill the needs of the country. Up to the next two decades India used to import wheat and other food stuff from America and other countries to meet her needs. Today India is able, not only to fulfill her own needs of food stuff, but also supplies food stuff to other countries. During the six decades of independence India has made marvelous progress in the industrial sector too. India has, not only become self-reliant but also exports industrial goods to other countries. Some of the industrialists who used to wear used- chappals (flip-flops) and patched -shirts and trousers have now become multi millionaires. Their names are found in the list of the richest of the world. Today Indian doctors, engineers, technocrats and other professionals are also spreading all over the world to meet the needs of many countries. But, in spite of all this progress, more than 33 percent people of this country are living below the poverty line. Roti (bread) Kapra (Clothing) and Makan (a house to live in) are out of their purchasing power. These people have meal once a day. Millions of educated, uneducated, skilled and unskilled Indian citizens are unemployed. The government has no concern for them. Till the independence, the cost of wheat was Rs. 8 per 40 kgs while it is being sold today at the price of Rs. 13 per kg. The price of vegetable oil was 3-4 per kg; today it is being sold at the rate of Rs.64 per kg. The prices of potato and onions were one Anna (less than 10 paise) for 2 kgs, and today these are being sold at the rate of Rs. 10 per kg. Dals are being sold at the rate from Rs. 40 to 60 per kg. Half of the population of this country is being crushed under the heavy weight of price rise. More than 33 percent people have no house to live in. Generation to generation they live on the footpaths. Clothing is out of the reach of these Indians. Dirty communalism paves way for terrorism and is playing havoc with the lives of the people of this country. Freedom of religion is continuously eroding. Under the pressure of anti-secular forces who are hell bent upon making India a religious based country, laws are being framed to crush the religious freedom of the people Parliament and state assemblies are no more forums of discussing the issues relating to the public welfare and finding any solution to them .Gullible voters send them to parliament and assemblies to solve their problems. Instead, Political parties have converted them into battle field to exhaust their political anger against one another. Thus they waste a large part of the time of parliament and assemblies sessions. They don’t realize that the country is burning. To add fuel, Executives have become a slave to the ruling political parties. Actually, there is a nexus among the political leaders, bureaucracy and the big business houses. They are united to loot the common man. Expressing its concern over the sorry state of parliament and assembly members and bureaucracy a few days ago Supreme Court has passed remarks that if they are not changed, even God could not save this country. The country must go into depth to understand the meaning of Supreme Court remarks. O! Our good lord! Save the country, we pray.

Posted on August 22, 2008