I could not concentrate on my job at office. I’m extremely worried about the deteriorating situation in Mumbai. Till now 100 people dead and still counting. I always ask a simple question after every event. Who is responsible for this? Well I can’t blame terrorists as they are inhuman without any sense. The real culprits are Indians. Corruption has gone so deep in India that you can’t find the word ‘accountability’ in Indian dictionary. Bombs are going off in regular intervals. But has there any action been taken? No. Politicians are busy in dividing the society in the name of ‘n’ number of parameters e.g. caste, religion, place of birth, language….and it is an endless list. But I can’t blame politicians. They are doing this to survive. I should go to the root cause of the problem and the root cause is Indian attitude. It is a common Indian attitude to look for yourself and forget the society. It is a common Indian attitude to look for short-cuts, which gives rise to corruption. It is a common Indian attitude to break rules and regulations. Well, if you do nasty things then nasty things will happen to you. I’m a normal human with all sorts of flaws and I can’t preach morality to anybody. But I have the common sense to look beyond my immediate surrounding. And normal Indian does not have the simple common sense. Why vote for a politician who is telling the lie over and over again? Why crib but never take action? Why the fatalistic attitude? Why blame others but never look at the rot in your own bed room?

A country is the reflection of its civil society and the civil society is the reflection of its citizens. Corruptions, resistance to change, lack of education and fatalistic attitude have almost destroyed the country. Supreme Court has handed over death penalty to a terrorist but Govt. does not have balls to execute the order. We have a Prime Minister who said he lost sleep when Haneef was arrested in Australia but he is having a good time when 100s are dying in weekly bomb blasts in his back yard. What kind of a leader Manmohan Singh is? A leader should be able to lead the people by example but he is losing his sleep when an individual got arrested. He is a coward. God save India.

We need a strong leader, who can unite the country and pull it out of the mess. We need a leader who will rise above party politics. We need a leader who will set precedence. We need a strong leader who can take decision in the broader interest of a billion people rather than losing sleep. We don’t need a proxy as our leader. I can see only two persons at this moment who have the guts to carry this burden without losing sleep. They are Laloo Prasad and Narendra Modi. I don’t care which party they belong to or their past. They have shown the leadership quality by being fearless. Modi has proved his skills over and over again in Gujarat. There is no need for any proof for this. Laloo is a person who knows how to get things done. I will love to see any one of them as PM of India next year.

Just now I had a chat with a guy in India regarding the situation in Mumbai. He made the following two statements (copy and paste below) and it proved the point that I’m trying to make.

prasad: I am in nag
too far for bullets

prasad: its like this from last 50 years in india
you pay the polioce man and you are free

This is a very typical Indian attitude. As long as this attitude is not changing, bombs will go off and the guy who says ‘bullet won’t reach Nagpur, will face the bullet in his own home’.