I want to board the next flight and fly away to some distant country that does not bask in the ‘glory’ of disastrous politicians, or publicise the ever failing democracy or a dead judiciary, even worse – the ‘red bull’ kind of energy that the Mamatas, Lalus, Mayawatis have for ‘nothing’ but garnering as much attention they can in their time of reign. Why do we have to sit and take such nonsense every day of our life, i think? Is there no one, no one at all who can change this or make our lives saner, I say?

Times now to CNN-IBN, NDTV to News 9, not one channel shows anything pleasant about India, we only get to watch what BJP did to Congress, which Sports body screwed up this time, and which indusrtrialist has been caught for fraud! Ugh… And we are supposed to bask in the glory of being born as a citizen of India. Of course there are many reasons to be a happy ‘Bharati’ but then they all get hidden or pushed behind all the ‘taam-jhaam’ that goes on everyday! Open the paper every morning and you are bound to read a scary headline – Death toll on the rise, famine break out, Border tensions intensifies, Frauds, World terror Kingpin targets India, this politician threw mud at the other and vice versa… How ‘satisfying’ can that be to read that at the day’s start!

 I know I am lamenting and whining and cribbing endlessly but I cannot be charged for it! Can I? After all we are ‘democratic’ right?

The other day I was Googling the safest countries in the world and India was no where till the end of the list! Wow, we are doing very well, isnt it? I know we are not the only country with so many problems but we sure are emerging as the ‘most developed down-the-drain’ country. Any problem in any part of the world and India is a primary name like Pak-cricket fiasco, we just cant be away from trouble.

Having said all this, I ponder if there is anything I like about India! Yes, my family and thats about it! Not one city makes me happy… I want to like my country but need to struggle to even come close to that. I can speak for Bangalore – No traffic sense at all, the roads are broken down every day and left to be filled by rain water or accident victims (alarming rate-I tell you), the never ending metro construction that was supposed to be done a year back and we are still waiting, not to mention the hooligans in the guise of autowallas, and yes how can we forget the power-cuts, water scarcity! Yes, there are always friends, family, and other entertianment avenues but the city’s drawbacks are a gnawing pain!

We need a magic wand and lots of extra-terrestrial elements to take us out of this hell-hole! Maybe ‘Jadoo from Koi Mil gaya’ can be of some help to us! We need to get out of this sooner than we realise or we are on a downslide…

P.S. I know I sound pissed and I think its my pent up anger of years that I write today and I guess I had to share my feelings on some platform and what better than a widely explored arena!