Oh, Mohan I just do wish there were more men "of the old style" in the states of India. Your father sounds like a great man. It is the tragedy of India, today, that a "social conscience" is utterly lacking in politicians and that few of the educated classes from the upper middle and upper classes go into politics.
5 years in jail. Imagine anyone in India going to jail today for a firmly held position. Yet, it is not people's fault today. Strangely. The world of anti-colonialism and protests about freedom, to your father's generation, presented a much clearer choice than the choices available today. Now, in India you have 50 years of bad management. 50 years of class prejudices. 50 of a every-slowing bureacracy that is, now, almost totally atrophied. I absolutely pity the young people of India who are faced with terriically diminished choices....50 years of the have's piling up more and more and the poorer getting poorer. On the other hand there has been tremendous development in India and I view the possibility of the break up of India as once of the great events of our time.
Yet, perhaps the greatest stength of India is that it is a place of 999 million arnachies.
I have always felt that given a choice of two dishes Chinese or Indian I'd probably choose the Indian dish.
Someone here posted about the polarizing of Indian societies between Muslim and HIndu... to the benefit of politicans. An astute observation.
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