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    India's Boom, Gloom And Doom
    India's Boom, Gloom And Doom
    India's Boom, Gloom And Doom
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    India's Boom, Gloom And Doom

    By Yogendra Datt

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    Is democracy a failed institution? May or may not be. However looking back the history of bricks nation the results are a dismal failure. It serves to the benefit of politicians and the rich and famous exclusively who made their fortune by means of crony capitalism.

    Someone truly defined Politics --- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect from each other. There exist "two India's" one of the rich and poor.the deep divide in many ways define the country.

    The tiny elite are living under the fear of reprisal.They have purchased mansion in UK and other countries as an escape route. They fear a civil war could breakout anytime very similar that of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria. They no longer send their children for schooling in India. They are being educated in Swiss alps, Oxford and elite institution in USA, Canada and Australia.

    India's decay began in Nehru's time, indias first prime minister. Nehru ignored the corruption of political figures.And even from the first election after independence , money bags had begun supplementing freedom fighters in grabbing tickets to parliament and state assemblies.

    The spread of rot accelerated during Indira Gandhi's time, Mr Nehru daughter.Her son Rajiv followed her footsteps in 19989 after he was suspected of having paid millions of dollars in Swiss bank in a contract involved the import of howirtser from the Swedish firm Bofors AB and then followed by air bus purchased from France. It is estimated that in 60 years since 1948 about 900 biliion dollars flowed out of India.

    In India high level corruption and scams are now threatening to the country 's credibility and only inches away from doom. It is a lopsided INDIA. Priorities are screwed up. Instead of providing fresh water, improve sanitary condition , the government orders 10 helicopter for VIP use ,also the bunch of minister enjoy a whopping 100 million dollar in kick back. So why is inequality so harmful ? The spirit level suggests inequality undermines social trust, corroding societies as a whole.

    ln order to win respect and self esteem resort to becoming a gangster.Politicians and white collar thieves have looted this country. Someone rightly said, PICTURE A NICE FRUIT CAKE SURROUNDED BY RATS AND EVERYONE IS TAKING ANICE NIBBLE OF IT "

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYogendra Datt
    Release dateJan 15, 2014
    ISBN9781311105868
    India's Boom, Gloom And Doom
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    Yogendra Datt

    The author of this book was born in Dighwara and graduated with honors from Patna University, India in 1960.He immigrated to Canada in 1970 and later took a retirement in Switzerland. He has passion for flying and is a holder of a Canadian private pilot's license with several hundred hours of flying experience. On retirement his interest sparked in creative writing. His last book published was "Finding Mr. and Mrs. Right for an ideal marriage" and "Rags to Riches and Riches to Rags".A few other books to be published are in pipeline such as "India's boom, gloom and doom, Bunga Bunga party Jokes, Kama sutra of the west, People who changed our lives for better or worse." They will be available soon.

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      India's Boom, Gloom And Doom - Yogendra Datt

      The author of this book was born in Dighwara and graduated with honors from Patna University, India in 1960.

      He immigrated to Canada in 1970 and later took a retirement in Switzerland. He has passion for flying and is a holder of a Canadian private pilot's license with several hundred hours of flying experience. On retirement his interest sparked in creative writing. His last book published was Finding Mr. and Mrs. Right for an ideal marriage and Rags to Riches and Riches to Rags.

      A few other books to be published are in pipeline such as India's boom, gloom and doom, Bunga Bunga party Jokes, Kama sutra of the west, People who changed our lives for better or worse. They will be available soon.

      PREFACE

      India democracy is not a healthy democracy. It is a very sick democracy. The divide between rich and poor and the income inequality has surged by leaps and bound.

      India’s wealth pyramid has a very wide base and a sharp point. Is India really shining or declining. Declining is the only truth.

      Truth speaks for itself when India’s only 2% are shining (THE BOOM), 8% are meeting their ends (GLOOM) and the rest 90% are in decline of misery, hunger, disease and shelter (DOOM).

      India is ranked no. 2 with 56 billionaires and a GDP of 1.3 trillion dollars whereas 600 million people live on $2 a day.

      Corruption is a key issue for the world’s largest democracy. How dumb can be the public that they elect them (the congress party) time and again knowingly, that they are bunch of thugs, call it white collar thieves or better daylight robbers.

      We can’t find any other party in India other than Congress for all the possible sins under the sun to be committed on a country as a whole and over the people in all possible ways.

      Now with the present Prime Minister, well known as robot PM. Sonia has the remote control. At one gathering of all the head of the state, he was declared the most boring of all the head of the states. He has never delivered an extempore speech. The delegates were snoring because they could hardly hear his voice.

      Sonia and MMU are both ailing and can boast that they are the one who devalued the rupee which was equal to 1 Rupee = 1 US $ in 1947 to this date.

      People think that the Swiss banks will be depleted if Congress looses. On the contrary, if Congress looses, more government money will be siphoned off to the Swiss banks and few top Congressmen will take a political sabath and live in rich villas in Geneva, Rome and Monaco. 500 million people staring even after 55 years of rule.

      There is still light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps, someone will rise and share my thoughts of road to recovery in the following chapters.

      My favourite and one of the best Indian Journalist Manu Joseph’s clippings from his many articles have been highlighted.

      I always like to begin with a joke. Read on!

      A little boy goes to his dad and asks, What is Politics? Dad says, Well, son let me try to explain it this way: I am the bread winner of the family, so let’s call me capitalism. Your Mom, she’s the administrator of the money, so we will call her the government. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the people. The nanny we will consider her the working class. And your baby brother, we will call him the Future. Now think about that and see if this makes sense.

      So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad had said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has dirtied his diaper, so the little boy goes to his parent’s room and find his mother sound asleep.

      Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the Nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the Nanny. He gives up and goes to bed.

      The next morning the little boy says to his father, Dad I think I understand the concept of Politics now. The father says, Good Son. Tell me in your own words, what you think politics is all about?

      The little boy replies, Well while Capitalism is screwing the working class, the government is sound asleep, the people are being ignored and the future is in deep shit.

      ****

      Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

      ****

      My mother is such an alarmist. I complained the teenager. One cough and she thinks I have Bronchitis. A headache and she is sure it is a brain tumour. One little lie, I am destined for politics.

      ****

      Politicians are none else but a wolf in Sheep’s clothing.

      ****

      If a primary aim in life is to become a caring human being, then surely a capacity for tenderness must play a role

      The author personally thanks Mr. Justin Horner for his heart wrenching essay THE TIRE IRON AND THE TAMALE which is reproduced from the original.

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      Chapter 1. Two India’s

      There exist two India’s – one of them is rich and the other poor. The deep divides that in many ways define the country. A recent article by Manu Joseph, a well-known journalist and an editor has painted a very realistic picture of India. He writes about daily life in India. It is a fierce contest between the affluent and the educated on the one side and the brooding impoverished on the other.

      The pursuit of India’s elite is to protect themselves from India from its crowd, dust, heat, poverty, politics, governance and everything else that is in plain sight. To achieve this, they embedded themselves in their private islands that the forces and the odours of the republic cannot easily penetrate.

      The island that protects Indians from India is simple and material. A luxurious car with an unspeaking driver who works for 12 hours every day at less than $200 a month, or at least S.U.V. with strong metal fenders that can absorb routine minor accidents. A house in a beautiful residential community that the other Indians can only enter as maids and drivers. Membership in an exclusive club. Essentially a life in a bubble where there is no sign of the government except for the treachery of the service tax.

      This is not the life of the terrifyingly rich alone but also the skilled middle class employed in the private sector.

      The editor-in-chief of the Indian Express described this population as long divorced and insulated from the Indian Government. All of us learnt to become individual sovereign republics. We send our children to private schools, get treatment in private hospitals, have our own security in gated communities, and never need to use public transport. Even our own diesel generators to produce power and in many parts of the country, we arrange our own water supply, either through our own bore wells or tankers.

      The numbers of these Sovereign Republics inside India are small and there are Islands within Islands, each one characterized by how much money it can invest to make its walls higher and thicker to keep India out. The best protected are, of course, 60 odd billionaires and almost billionaires, who are even shielded from the justice system. They escape India even when they go to meet their Gods in the country’s holiest temples. While hundreds of thousands jostle for a glimpse of the deities and scores routinely die in stampedes, the rich are whisked away from their choppers for special appointments with their benevolent Gods.

      Then there are 170,000 dollar millionaires according to Credit Swiss report. It is a small figure compared with the 230,000 dollar millionaires of Switzerland whose population is less than 1 per cent of India.

      Rags to riches stories in India are popular but rare. The tiny Indian elite are largely an inheritance economy. Its members have inherited their lifestyle and instincts from their parents. Other than the few Maharajas, the beneficiary of true inheritance, today the majority of this inherited wealth is a result of corruption, abuse of bureaucratic power, vast stretch of land grabbed by those in power for a penny. Statistically, everyone was living from hand to mouth till Independence. Then the loot began. This wealth was never accumulated because of hard work. The license Raj was a ticket for every politician or bureaucrat to amass huge wealth.

      This is why India’s upper classes are recession proof. It would take an absolute catastrophe for the upper class to be thrown out of their islands and merge with the other Indians.

      There was a time when the master of the house and the maid used to watch the same film in the same theatre, though in different seats of course. There was a time when Hindi cinema was about the angry young man, social injustice and even parental love. There were innumerable stories in which the protagonist sold his blood or his kidneys to bring money to his widowed mother who was perpetually toiling on a Singer sewing machine.

      But Hindi cinema today is joyous and its characters are modern and western. The film industry has become a hip cultural island. It is

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