Scaling new heights or sinking to greater depths?

The nation is in the grip of election fever and everywhere I hear passionate debates about whether this candidate is bad or that candidate is worse; whether this party is rotten or that party stinks. Everyone seems to think that her viewpoint is the best and that by not agreeing to it others are committing a sacrilege. My advice to all these well-intentioned guys - ‘is haram mein sab nange hain’, so do not take politicians of this country seriously.

One doesn’t need IQ of an Einstein to decipher how successive governments have taken citizens of this country for a ride. Blinkered vision, shallow agendas and unfathomable depravity of our politicians have eroded the very ethos which our founding fathers dreamt of. We keep deriding the British for their “divide and rule” policy, but have not our politicians been following the same policy and dividing people on basis of caste, language, religion, etc.

Nation building is a daunting task and should be in the hands of the competent and conscientious. Even after 60 years of independence majority of our countrymen do not have assess to the basics of human existence. What a shame! Is it the “foreign hand” to be blamed for this even? Or is it the collective greed without individual accountability of those entrusted with power to govern us? You decide.