India is a country of more than 1.2 billion people. It has been a developing country for very long time. In this period many country have developed and many countries have come out of great depressions. Why are we not making progress? one theory I have is that we are selfish.
One example of it is the Ambulance. When the ambulance is going on the road, instead of giving way for the ambulance to go they want to go in front of the ambulance. They think others will give way to the ambulance and they can go in front. They think they will go faster than ambulance if the traffic clears and they are not causing the problem. Every one thinks they are not the problem and the ambulance does not move. People always say “Even if i change the system will not change”. This is mostly heard in discussion of politics, corruption.
Even in villages where people are supposed to have better relationship with everybody and every one cares about one another. people are really not caring about each other. people in the villages are asking for basic facilities like roads, sanitation, drinking water, schools and hospitals. But, they are not demanding them. Instead of using their votes for community gain they are using for personal gain by selling their votes for money and liqueur. That’s why even if their elected representatives can not deliver any of the basic necessities they keep getting elected term after term.
People living in urban areas and cities are also not helping. Many people because of their fast paced life often they don’t stop and think of others or the community. Even through many of these people are educated they break rules and they give bribe or receive bribe just to make their life easy. Even their vote is influenced by many factors caste, religious preference, regional preference, political preference. They don’t stop and think if they are making any change with their vote. They vote for the same old traditional parties and think they will change everything. One major problem is people think of their vote as a bet. They don’t want to lose by vote to somebody that may lose.
All the recent revolution on scams and corruption have ended with out any decisive outcome. Most of the revolutions did not even get some results unless some one has been getting some political gain. people don’t have strong will and commitment for revolutions unless some one has been trying to run them for their own gain. The revolution for lokpal bill was so popular because Arvind Kejriwal was behind it. He was the one who ran the movement so that he got political gain from it. He became popular and became chief minister of Delhi. In the case of division of state of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrasekhar Rao(KCR) wanted to become the Chief minister of state so he made it his personal agenda to divide the state. Even through people of Telangana wanted separate state for long time their revolutions has cooled down from time to time because people don’t have the commitment to their society. KCR struck with his agenda even through the revolution cooled down multiple times.
Many countries throughout the world are fighting civil wars and having revolutions. why are we as a country not able to unite and successfully change something in the recent past?