Monday, October 28, 2013

Join the Revolution

It is generally recognized that monopoly and discretion increase the propensity to corruption while competition and transparency reduce corruption. This has been dramatically witnessed in India in the wake of economic liberalization. As competition came in and choice expanded, corruption plummeted. A welcome change that P.V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh have brought with unintended consequences. It has now created a generation which has no idea on what pre-liberalisation red tape is like.

We are witnessing a second wave of corruption reduction with technology revolution, but it is still a Work-in-progress. Technology is not destined to bring in change, Infact we have no destinies other than those we forge for ourselves. Plato said, the punishment suffered by wise who refuse to take part in govt is to suffer under the govt of bad men. So my fellow citizens, be part of government, join the revolution and change the destiny of our country.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Faith of a poet

Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941)
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
                         Into ever-widening thought and action
                                             Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake