Where are we heading??? – An open letter to all the Indians

Well, those 3 question marks in the title are just indicative - there are many more in real… You might be thinking, what's this all about? Well, it's about our very own so-called GREAT nation...

Lately, the things that are and have been happening here amaze, amuse, surprise, shock, demotivate, sadden, and frustrate me all at once… Being a not-so-keen follower of news, I quote 3 incidents which made a mark on my memory...

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PAST: Few years back, a girl posting something about Balasaheb Thakre on Facebook, her friend 'like'ing it, and both got arrested – ‘A murder of democracy’

PRESENT: The very recent, Patidar-reservation movement...

·        People so demotivated by their cruelly imposed fate of not being able to get what they deserve fair and square - that they start a movement asking for reservation for themselves...

·        The country of bullshit age-old castes and creeds – where hailing from a so-called higher caste was considered once as a matter of pride. The same people are now fighting for being considered as backward...

·        Cherries on the top – those who already have been ENJOYING these privileges irrespective of their capabilities in each and every field for decades now (instead of what was originally applied for 10 years), are still not satisfied. They want to suck more from this country (or more precisely, from the fairly eligible youth of this country)...

·        People playing politics out of all these...

·        The crowd driven by and supporting what I understand as a revolution without ideologies... Had this been a fight for the ‘right to fair competition’, this revolution would have got support from at least one more ‘Hardik Patel’ for sure...

·        And then the great government/police come up with a unique (and what they think as the only) way of controlling the riots - mobile internet curfew in Gujarat
Well, I would be little into-the-face of government and ask this logic-o-phobic administration few very simple questions...

-   Why only mobile internet, and why not wired networks as well?

-   Why entire mobile internet, and not only the social media?

-   Who will reimburse for the validity/data/monetary loss from business?

-   Who is responsible for intangible loss to all not-anyhow-related people?

-   Are we living in some 17th century where you disconnect people anytime for any duration for stupid reasons?

FUTURE: News is that there is yet another feather added to the crown of privacy-predator administration... If true, Whatsapp will soon add a feature that will enable government to read every message being transmitted, and then endorse if it is fine... I mean, REALLY???

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There is a huge chunk of such things happening, which probably due to my ignorance I overlook. But, then I feel good actually being a not-so-keen follower of news, for I am saved a bit from the sorry feeling for my country...

Yes, I might sound all negative unlike the passionate youth of this nation which is pretty-much-always-like "we have to change the system, and yes we can"... Well, unfortunately, any such feeling is not occurring right now to me...and I just can think of one thing... As a nation where are we heading???