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Bangalore, BDA, BESCOM, Corrupt India, Incompetent India, India Rising, India Shining, Make in India, Rising Asian Powers
As I type this, we have no power at our home in Bangalore – Urban! The trusty old UPS is powering few lights and fans. It will hold for another 3-hrs or so.
The backup generator of the apartment housing is perennially under repair! The owner’s association here is a good reflection of the Indian government – incompetent, corrupt, lazy, and unaccountable to anyone!
I am considering getting a small generator for my own home to supplement the UPS and insulate myself from the “real” India!
The situation has been much too pathetic for a while now. Apparently, for large part of the day there is no power. Sometimes for up to 12-hrs at a stretch! In case anyone’s wondering, no we have no storms, heavy rains, or inclement weather around. It’s decently sunny and warm.
So much for all that politically fed media hype on India Shining, India Rising, The Next Super Power, Make in India – all that’s just poor poetry and frankly, it’s load of garbage! The politicos can just stuff it.
It’s not surprising that only the common man has to face all these hassles. The political masters are well shielded from these everyday inconveniences – like, long & frequent power cuts; pathetic roads conditions; horrendous traffic issues; unregulated & unscrupulous real estate market; peccadillos & idiosyncrasies of the gas-supply agencies; incompetence & harassment from basic service providers (cable, internet, municipality,…); and many “little” things.
Come elections and these honchos will parade about begging and buying votes. They have discovered cash and alcohol to be good vote gathering incentives. Their years of incompetence and apathy is completely forgotten (& forgiven) or rather cheaply sold out for these “benefits.” The common man’s so damn busy fighting the everyday little battles, he doesn’t even remember he’s being short-changed. The few extra hours of relaxation he finds is squandered away in Bollywood and IPL. Every road rage I witness on the Bangalore roads is a blatant display of this short-changing – the poor drivers have to bear the brunt of the government’s incompetence. They turn on each other instead of uniting and turning on the government.
While the expectations are even lower from the Congress, I really don’t understand what exactly Modi has achieved so far. He’s certainly been busy globe-trotting at the tax payers expense. He’s added more poetry and hyperbole to noise bytes of India “rising.” He’s in the news a lot. But there’s really only activity without any actual achievement.
For India to be called a super power, one would seriously need to redefine the word “super-power”! For India to fit that bill the word has to become synonymous with unprofessional, incompetent, inefficient, scandalous, deceitful, bribe-driven, slothful, machiavellian, and unskilled among many other euphemistic adjectives!