2010: The Lost Year

One year is not a significant portion of an old person’s life for example PM Manmohan Singh or a middle aged man for example Rahul Gandhi. That is simple law of percentages. However for people below the age of eighteen, one a year is a lot. Since people below eighteen are the future of the nation, a lost year is something they cannot afford. When the voters elect political leaders, they may vote on caste or regional politics or any other reason. But the one thing that all voters share is the hope that this batch of leaders will do something the other guy did not. If the only thing that politicians do is to take care of their own interests, then the time they are in the office gets wasted. Like everything else, opportunity is a limited resource in India. Any waste of that kind means lost lives. Can the voters afford anymore of these leaders? Can we afford one PM keeping the seat warm with ineffective and sycophantic subordinates so that the crown Prince in waiting is not threatened? Can the young afford to have their destiny denied while the crown prince learns the craft?
The Indian voters need to do the right thing for the sake of their children. Our batting is over. Now it’s our children’s chance to bat. If we do not give them the heaviest bat then we are the ones at fault.

India Goes Down The Drain in 2010
by Dr. Subhash Kapila
India seems to have gone down the drain in 2010 under the UPA II Government whose leadership is in the hands of the Congress Party, judging solely from the “corruption scams epidemic” that has engulfed India in the first one and a half years of the return to power of the Congress Government. India had everything going strongly in its favor in terms of economic growth and a growing recognition internationally. India’s good achievements in 2010 have been washed away by the “corruption scams epidemic” leaving one to mourn India’s going down the drain, unbecoming of a rising power. Sadly, India’s unending corruption scams seem to have dented the public image of the Prime Minister and the Congress President.
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