"Engineer from Chennai plunges to death while bungee jumping - Harness
snaps, victim suffers head injuries; no ambulance at site. The police
identified the victim as G. Bhargava who used the weekend to check out
the adventure sport organised by Centre for Adventure and Rejuvenation
of Environment (CARE)."
AND...
"BJP, Congress are jittery: Karat - Only Leftist policies can save
country from doom, says Deve Gowda. JD(S) president and former Prime
Minister H.D. Deve Gowda said the country was on the brink of an
economic and social collapse. "Only a Leftist economic and social
policy can arrest the slide that we are witnessing as a nation," he
said."
What is interesting is that in both cases, the common Indian man, is
treated with negligence. In the first case, a man paid money to get a
taste of adventure and lost his life, and here we are, with more
political parties trying to get mileage out of a bad economy, even
while predicting doom. Forget how jittery the Indian citizen is right
now, let's talk about how jittery the BJP and Congress are! How
enlightening.
The adventure sports organizers, (aptly called CARE) have no bloody
business conducting the event with no ambulance close by. Saving
money, that's what it comes down to. They could have seen it coming,
but they refused to. Asleep at the wheel!
Deve Gowda, in the few moments he was actually forced to stay awake
during his Prime Ministership, didn't do anything remarkable, apart
from earning himself the title of "Former Prime Minister". Here is a
buffalo with a long stint in the cesspool of Indian politics, claiming
to be the wise one, predicting an economic and social collapse for the
nation, going far enough to say the Left can save us, but not telling
us what their plan is! I can bet my last rupee he doesn't know, and
he doesn't care. Deve Gowda is a highlighted example of the worst of
Indian traits - Rank Incompetence.
This is India - incompetence and unprofessionalism in large enough
doses. People actually lose lives and livelihoods because we live in
a cauldron of mediocrity. There is not a single politician who is
urging Indians to pick themselves up and perform better in EVERYTHING
we do. Why is that? Because it is so simple it escapes everyone's
notice? Or do we actually think we are doing great? Probably both.
I have been dragged over a hill in a parachute organized by an Indian
adventure organization when the parasailing rope snapped! I had
enough luck on my side to escape with bruises and trauma in my legs,
but it was rank incompetence all right. The attitude I remember most,
was one of happy relief, not of shame. Nobody addressed the
incompetence issue and that was the last time I have ever taken part
in any organized adventure in India. We just don't cut it when it
comes to ensuring anything remotely close to reliability.
I have also seen first hand how Deve Gowda could sleep through some
very prestigious, important occasions and I have seen how he could
ignore great opportunities if his mind was on a samosa. Now this is
the fool telling us at his ripe old age how the country must be run?
Give me a bloody break. Apart from his historically recorded
laziness, what does he bring to the third front? A gale wind blowing
the wrong way? Blame the samosa.
If there is something to be sold, Indians are selling it - and that's
not a crime in a capitalist world. But to sell danger, like
contaminated medicines, rash drivers, and thieving politicians -
that's got to be an India special. Is there any "front" that can
actually make people ask the right questions? Do we even care that
much? How many horrible deaths do we have to die before we ask
ourselves if we are good at anything at all?
Leftist ideas have gone down in the drain in the sweep of free markets
and capitalist opportunities. So, the free market has also let us
down, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with competitiveness.
The Left wants incompetent people to have an equal chance at
mediocrity. Somehow, miraculously, we Indians have refused to give
them much of a chance at the Centre. The couple of doors we opened
for them in Kerala and West Bengal haven't delivered anything worth
remembering. In the latest sham, the Singur fiasco has been
spectacularly damaging.
Now Deve Gowda is suddenly scared of capitalism and wants the Left to
do something - well, not really. Look a little closer and he is part
of a coalition, the only coalition that will actually have this lazy
bum.
No matter who we vote for - that will just be like having a different
person strapping us to the same harness that killed G. Bharghava. It
just doesn't matter. It is the CARElessness that has taken us to such
abysmal lows. We need to fix that, before we choose who gets the job.
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