A few days back the HC instructed the govt. to fill all the pot holes that are a dime to two dozen in the city, or the officials would be pulled up! So dont be surprised if the roads are suddenly a flurry of activity on it. the dead line is up in 10 days!!!
i was on my way back home, and the Bombay-Pune highway, that was a disaster due to the rains, is now being worked on in a hurry! its hilraious, they are working at amazing speed, and this would be "impossible" had it not been for the HC order. "nai sahib...vae-l lagel". the trucks are out, they are puttin in tar, the road rollers touching speeds they arent build for. AND for this it took a HC order!
Its a sad state of affairs when the officials who are paid to do a certain job, need to be frightened to do i. thats the one biggest wrong thing bout this country. no body thinks it their job. they maybe equipped to do it, but if it means moving a muscle more than what they are "supposed" to do, they wont do it.
we passed our 59th year of independence, what do we have to show for it?? for all practical purposes, we just show that we cant manage anything, without big papa coming to tell us to do it. the other things(the frills so to speak) would have been possible (in this era) even if we were a colony of england.
Just a rant about today's Science in India
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So today I read an article about the state of Science in India written by
Prof. G. R. Desiraju, a professor of chemistry from IISc. Here is the
article.
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12 years ago
6 comments:
the state of our country's affairs r realy sad...all r hand-in-glove with one another..corruption is ingrained in our 'amoral' fabric..nothing can change it...
i suppose a change in attitude of ours to begin with would, once we realize that we hold the problem within us, and not outside out, everything will somehow magically disappear!
Corruption will never end..
Need too much money to be pumped in.. plus indians by nature are lazy..
so lets see where the country goes..
With the WTO agreement, the country will be run by phirangs arnd 20 yrs from now..
some how i dont think it can be all that bad, atleast it wont hurt as much as it does when OUR own people shit on us.
i agree with kunal, nothing can change it. i believed changing oneself is a good attitude....but thats not really true.
If it magically disapears, i would be more shocked and disappointed than happy. Thats the orwell in me speaking.
hey nikhil, firstly gr8 blog - just stumbled on it today .... now coming to corruption - pages hav been written bout it & as a society with an increasingly strong media - we are increasingly exposing it .... but the point is the fault or a part of it also lies on us, doesnt it?
I mean parents say - 'beta, bcom an engineer/doctor/consultant' etc .... nobody wants to go into the public sector & reform things at the grassroots .... the irony is rite now a scientist is the president & an economist is the P.M., but unless we stop payng bribes to get that driver's license or to get that xtra bit of water supply, etc - its not gonna change.
The Indian middle class has kept itself away from politics & the sphere of public service .... in part because it involves no tangible return in terms of personal finance/incentives .... and so, we hav a bunch of incompetent & dubious/shady arses who work in the Govt & municipality
So ultimately, we hav to start gettin involved in all of this .... get out of our comfort zone of engineer/doctor/consultant & go on to mebbe IAS/IPS etc & start building up a municipality consisiting of educated,like-minded & forward lookin individuals
But easier said than done I guess
nyways man! keep bloggin away!
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