The liveability in India must be improved proactively by all stake holders (in India and overseas) on a war footing, sooner than later, for the survival and sustainability of the country.
Liveability refers to the basic life supporting system, such as:
- Quality of air for breathing
- Quality and availability of water for drinking
- Authenticity and quality of food – vegetables, fruit, dairy etc.
- Authenticity of medicines
- Security of life in general, in particular, the women
- Ease of movement on the roads
Character Building
As a nation of 1.35 billion people, India needs massive character (re)building, right from the grass roots, across all sections of the society – the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate.
Indians, living in the cities, must fast review their current (hybridised) lifestyle and try to revert to a more traditional – simpler, value-based – lifestyle, intertwined with spirituality. Horses for courses! What may have worked in the west may not necessarily work in India. Indians must not copy the west blindly. There must be some reason why many wealthy, educated and successful westerners turn towards the eastern philosophy and spirituality, and a simpler lifestyle.
Currently, Indians seem to be generally focussing on the material and the material prosperity, and not the human development. As a consequence, they are reaping the effects of materialism – a fast growing population, (lopsided / uneven) affluence, (patchy) industrialisation, (monstrous) consumerism, (dwindling) agricultural land space, polluted air and water, lesser sleeping hours, and noise – all of which seemingly keep eroding the human happiness, wellbeing and the peace of mind. How many people really know what ‘development’ means? The country is seemingly paying a heavy price for its industrial growth and the growing affluence of some, and not all, sections of the community. Masses, who live in the rural areas, continue to remain poor…
The ever-growing human struggle to survive and a sickening competition between the people at all levels of the lifecycle have seemingly taken a massive toll on the civic sense and the environmental awareness of general masses and their ownership of the country. It seems most people don’t own their country. Pity is that people are not trained to accept other people, from across numerous manmade division in the country – religious, caste, region, class, profession etc., as their own family members. As such, true nationalism is missing.
It is so unfortunate that, in the modern India, if a person talks about Hinduism or Lord Ram, the person is branded as a BJP or RSS supporter. And if one does not follow BJP, one is branded as a Congress supporter or a communist. It seems it is very hard to remain non-aligned and neutral, and keep one’s mind / eyes open and intellect clean…
Prayers and Prostration
How sad is it to accept the state of affairs in daily life in India, seeing those sickening issues as someone else’s problem and hoping for a miracle to improve the liveability?
Wake up India, don’t sleep-walk towards a catastrophic situation. Own the country and please take responsibility for your actions and inactions, and help to turn around the liveability northward. Stop prostrating before those netas (politicians / leaders), abinetas (actors) and the so-called celebrities; instead you guide them. They all work for themselves. No human can be considered to be superior to the other. Under that beautified and made-up skin and the (expensive / designer) clothes that we wear, we all look and smell the same. All of us arrive into this world crying and feeble, then grow old and weak, and leave one day. No one is immortal.
Very bad things happen when people just give up and don’t fight at their own levels to address the issues that they face on a daily basis. Praying to God or prostrating before a politician or an actor will never help. People must discover their individual potential and be proactive to help to change the things for the better.
People Power
Watching the television and those numerous television debates will not help to improve the liveability in the country. No one person gains from these shows, except those who run them.
India, wake up. You can’t leave it all to one man who leads you. You start owning the country; help yourself and the man who is leading you.
I am NOT leaving the task (of the population control awareness) to any particular individual or any politician. This task is for all of us. I am asking every citizen to step up and raise the community awareness. I am asking every reader of this blog to do the needful, so that people voluntarily check their human breeding rate. Please don’t bury your head in sand, like an ostrich, and believe everything is hunky-dory; it is not, you are sleep-walking to an existential problem. Remember the Kodak moment…
Most politicians will NEVER help you to control your alarmingly growing population, which is the root cause of MOST, if not all, menacing issues in India. They have a sinister vested interest in the vote-bank politics under the pretext of demographics etc. Their aim is let the population keep growing, so that the poor and the illiterate continue to remain in the country, only to be exploited by them for their own benefits. So, to help yourself and the country, take the initiative and educate people around you to adopt effective birth control measures. Explain to them why it is so important. For that matter, many Asian countries, such as Iran and Bangladesh, have been running successful population control / sterilization programmes.
Leadership & Solution
The Indian people and their leaders may have just about 5 years in the worst case scenario and about 10 years in the best case scenario, if not more, to evade a potentially pathetic liveability situation in the future. They must address the core issues that keep pushing the liveability in country southward, without any political correctness or vote-bank politics.
The Indian leadership MUST without any further delay, on a war footing, get both houses of the parliament, the country’s President and the Supreme Court, as well as the experts on populations and the civil defence, together with the people who man the country’s law and order, under one umbrella, with one Mission – Save India. The leadership must explain and convince them why it is paramount that the country’s population rate MUST be checked immediately. The leadership must seek their support for addressing the burning CAUSE – the country’s health and environmental sustainability.
It is most important that everyone in the government and the parliamentary machinery is taken on board before the Solution – One Child Policy – is implemented across all demographics (as the law of the land), at least for 10 to 15 years before it is reviewed for its effectiveness in the future. As that happens, all required educational and civil infrastructure must be extended to all rural areas so that people get educated uniformly across the country (and not only in cities) and find employment in their own hometowns, which will also help to stop any further migration of people from villages to cities, thereby allowing cities to breathe…
Watch this space…