Letting Sleeping Dogs lie...

Indian politicians suffer from one incurable disease - not being able to let sleeping dogs lie.

Look at the Lieberhan commission and its reporting - it took the commission millions of dollars and 17 years to table a report which was clear as daylight the minute one sees the Television footage - what took them 17 years to come to a conclusion which is not going to make a difference to our country one way or other? How is the report going to benefit the country? What is the positive side of this report - I can think of quite a few negative ones though & we are already seeing a few being played out? When will we grow up - in intelligence, stature, vision, patriotism as opposed to jingoism - to focus on areas that we really need to improve and create a difference? The more I think about India, I feel more sad - sheer waste of some of the finest talents the world has ever seen. At the same time, when the same group of politicians put their mind into something, they can make a difference - look at Modi in Gujarat and Nitish in Bihar - two ends of the development spectrum - one starting and building from a positive base and the other starting from somewhere close to the rock bottom in the development landscape. What they have achieved goes beyond GDP and numbers - they have inculcated pride in their states and the people living in them - no longer will Bihari be a metaphor for the under-developed parts of India and hopefully no longer will Gujarat immediately invoke Godhra war cries from each of the religious camps

Can we have more enlightened, educated, enterprising politicians please with the necessary expertise to WANT to make a positive difference? This is where India has been singularly unlucky - we really never had a group of folks at the top wanting to make a positive difference or not getting the necessary freedom of thought and action for doing so.

Hope we have a day soon when 80+% politicans are in the job because they want to see a better India - not just a better themselves & their narrow communities. Till such time, I can only consider the progress we make as being made despite the system & not because of the availability of an enabling environment.