Random Thoughts-13: Indian Independence Day

India celebrates its 61st Independence day today.

We have been through many, many difficult and some turbulent times. With corrupt, self-serving and bungling politicians on the one side; arrogant, callous and indifferent government officials on the other side; and submissive, easily-intimidated, easily-forgetting and cynical public on yet another side, makes one despair of the future and one is inclined to be hopeless and pessimistic. But still, there are silver linings. There has been tremendous progress on some areas like IT. There has been progress at snail's pace in some other areas. There has been backslidings.

My personal feeling is that the fundamental problem, from which arise all other problems, is nobody really cares about "WAYS AND MEANS" . Whatever you want, you want to get it "SOMEHOW". If only all of us realize that ways and means are equally, if not more important than the goals themselves, our country will be a great country. Come to think of it, it is not just in India but everywhere else one encounters the same problem.

In spite of all these, we have remained a democracy. That itself is a great achievement, though we are far from perfect and a long way to go before we can be really proud of ourselves.

On this happy occasion, my hearty greetings to fellow-Indians. Let us be optimistic and strive for the best.