The Capital for Change.

Stress and fatigue. It has been a strong  undercurrent in my life for a year. Personal stress varies and you find a way to deal with it. But I can't help cringing on every headline which will inadvertently will create ripple enough to toss my life.

Take for example the increase in the gas prices from April 2014. Nobody released a whimper, except Kumaramangalam Birla, about the reversals caused by that development.
1) A bigger subsidy bill for the govt. subsidising fertilizers.
2) Rise in raw material prices for many industries.
3) CNG rickshaws will go on strike for higher fares.

These are the headlines of April 2014. But it will be over-shadowed by media coverage of the general elections, unless if NaMo uses it in his campaign.

Controversies rise every day but the only change effected is the news doled out to you. No one bothers on a follow up. And thus we have a cycle of corruption, terrorism, natural disasters, religious politics, comments on the economy, protests, Naxal fights, political gaffe, sports and Bollywood gossip.

The solution cycle goes through media policing, controlled police, slow judiciary, callous governments, toothless activists, pointless murmur from the voters and priority shift to the next controversy.

If any of these solution machinery stand up and give a solution, it only serves as good as a botox shot. Pretty, but does not cover the underlying decay.

Of the many issues let's pick on the Food Security Bill. The ruling govt. is more realistic about the poverty count (read Montek Singh) and after the Employment Guarantee Act success in the previous elections, FSB is touted as the next game changer.

Let's shift the debate to materialistic grounds. Why do we need this bill? Inflated prices and poverty? (to draw a macro picture.)

My question is - What happened to the PDS? Why make another system which can be riddled by middle man issues?

There is no satisfactory conclusion to the article other than I emphasise once again that we do not focus on the root of many issues. The sick middle man system, which has only been getting worse over the ages.

We have Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare fighting against it since decades. (Yes, Corruption is not their only pursuit.) You hear random stories of success, but largely the middle and poor class has chosen to silently bear all the anomalies of the plagued system.

For e.g. Many of the grants given to the rural household can only be received after numerous cuts and bribes. Politicians connive with relatives to form shell companies to swallow funds allocated for projects. 

But we only prefer wailing about masala issues.

We need to be aware, educate others and adopt means to create the change we wish to see. We need to sacrifice the mirage like eye wash doles; see the micro and macro picture in every issue. Value your vote and make an informed choice. Believe that you can convince others of that value too. The current lot of politicos only know to well the cheap cost price of your choice. 

The factor that you will stand up to make a micro difference, will be the initial capital which needs to be invested, to see a macro change tomorrow.

Jai Hind.