In a bid to look good people often apply beauty products available in the market. After applying these products, if they still feel lacking in some areas, then they resort to desperate measures like cosmetic and laser surgeries. But, have you ever heard about what an Indian politician does when he has to put up a beautiful face of the city ?
He simply makes the people who can't afford to be beautiful like others, thrown out of his territory without any notice.
In a dramatic revelation, it has been confirmed through various sources that the reasons of a sudden change in the streets of Delhi in the form of clean and crowd free pathways are not very fundamental, but the fact that most of the footpath dwellers, beggars, hawkers were being packed out of the city in a mater of few weekss. This is to present a more beautiful and poverty less face of India to the world at large, which would be staring at us for 15 long days.
Sanjay Kumar of Akshay Adhikar Abhiyan, an NGO that works for the destitute in the capital says
"We have information that many beggars were loaded into trucks and sent out side the city with a warning not to return before the completion of the Games,"
Kalmady and his ilks might have just silenced the world at large, by brushing all the negativity and broken footbridge’s rubble under the carpet of an enthralling grand opening ceremony, but the deeds of the man are refusing to cease, and skeletons after skeletons are tumbling out of his cupboard.
“These evictions are carried out under the guise of city beautification and urban renewal measures. First they wanted to criminalize poor people and then make them invisible," says Singh of IGSSS.
We are so proud of our jugaad capabilties, Inder, that we've started relying on it for every job. We are always on the look out for temporary solutions to a problem, just to pass that one test/one day/one exam. And we're satisfied if we do pass that one test/one day/one exam. To hell with the long term consequences. This act of the govt is just another example of the jugaad we're so good at. Temporary solutions never work coz the bigger problem does not go away.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your response Ira. while writing this blog i was thinking of giving it a humorous angle by highlighting how the government has packed the unwanted out of the city ,but, yeah it's nice that you have correctly identified the reason of these minor/major acts which go unnoticed.
ReplyDeleteyes jugaad(improvisation with avilable resources) is sth which we rely too much onto. Although i am not against jugaad, if it is used by common people or rural people(as this was an invention out of compulsion) ,but if the central government also thinks through this approach ,then i am afraid ,planning commission people are not justifying their salary. yes even at the common man level, we should think before doing anything, as our act could have repercussions to others. (instinctive people like salman khan might not agree though)