Vasu
Reddy From Chicago
We
just had another grand celebration of Indian Independence day on 15th
of August and the celebrations of Indian's independence of 2014 is
once again celebrated with pomp and circumstance around the world.
With more and more wealth in the Indian community across the world
along with the ever expanding NRI population, it so seems fitting we
remember the country's freedom struggle and it being freed of the
British in 1947. It has been three generations or a bit more since
the British stopped using Hindustan and breaking it into pieces, and
left the nation more divided than whatever it was, and the nastiness
of divide and rule and caustic and religious intolerance; all of
which continue to be fostered by the nations that was once a great
nation with great expanse.
While
we continue to want to celebrate the leaving of British on 15th
of August of every year since 1947, we have forgotten how smart the
country was prior to the occupation by foreign invaders, and the
division of the great country for centuries. For in fact some of the
politicians of today keep referring to themselves as people who have
been occupied by the Indians, rather than looking back at the
division of the great nation for centuries of occupation and abuse by
the invaders. Perhaps every politician who would like to represent
Indians should be thoroughly tutored in the history and traditions of
the nation, and that might help them from mouthing off on who they
are and where they come from.
The
mantra in the speeches of the Prime Minister since the victory in the
latest general elections and even prior to the elections the
development of smart cities in every state of India. Also the word
development is used and continued to be used with such regularity, it
is more than redundant to hear this repeated constantly. Your
elected representatives are given a chance to represent a smart
country, and the smart people of India are quite politically savvy
and are quite smart in looking forward to their future. It is a
country that is very large, very diverse and very smart; and always
looking forward to the future. A country of believers in god, faith
and destiny; and also a country of people who are smart in picking
and choosing a government every five years based on their belief in
future. The country remains democratic in principal and optimistic
in nature, and it is already a very forward looking and smart nation.
The
diversity of India requires smart planning as the issues that face
the nation are as diverse as its population is, and requires smart
politicians who envision the needs of the great nation and it people.
No doubt that building infrastructure to meet the needs of the
Indians is important and planning well ahead into the future to meet
those ever expanding needs, but the politically intelligent
population of the country will always look for the leaders to keep
their promises made while looking for votes. The speeches made to
bring voters to the polling booths, are typically in line with the
aspirations of the nation, and delivering them to the electorate and
only by delivering to the poll promises the democracy will allow the
political parties to continue in power.
The
value of being a smart nation is really making do with the resources
we have, and managing to the best with what is available. Building
cities that are self sufficient, energy and resources smart, forward
looking in education and employment and also provide safety to all
citizens is important for the country and its people. We also need
smart planning in agriculture, rivers, human resources and natural
resources all along with people management, and we should start to do
what we plan quickly. Just talking about them is not going to help,
implementation of these plans and doing them quickly will help the
nation to remain smart and forward looking. There is no question of
the magnitude of the issues to be resolved and the implementation of
plans to meet those needs of the nation. A smart country will get
started on implementation and stop talking about the ideas of the
last 60 some years. We are a smart country and we know that the time
to talk is over and time to do is here. With each election cycle and
each elected government we hear the rhetoric of what can be done with
the nation, and we only see the degradation of a smart country,
rather than development to meet the needs of its people. It is now
time to get smart in doing things that are made in speeches and on
paper, and say we are smart people that realize that we don't want to
waste any more time talking, but we get smart and start doing.
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