A post after a long long of time. And this mail compelled me to post following reply.
I received above said mail from my relative and I was like "ye kya chal raha hai? who creates such a damn mail?". Generally we all get such mails where the only action you need to take to prove yourself as true Human/Indian/Hindu/Marathi/Punjabi/Tamil etc etc etc is to FORWARD mails to your friends. (I wrote about one such mail on my blog here).
So the reply is like this:
"Very true, But the point is why should we expect someone serving us for free?
If someone is doing a hard work, that's right being a politician is a very very hard work, why should he not be paid adequately? If you are running a company or holding key position in corporate world, you will earn much more than what a politician earns. (I mean legal income for both ;) That's why talented persons don't opt for political career. I am of the view that political remuneration should be such that all the talented persons should view it much above IT/Banking/finance/consultancy jobs.
In the present scenario only ones who does not get any job enters to politics. Few others enter politics because their business is politics. All the second/third generation leaders are only carrying their family business forward. Their pa/grandpa have invested so much in politics that if they don't harvest the crop, who else will? They will make fool of themselves if they don't cash the crop.
Any type of work which needs dealing with people having lower IQ/awareness than you is painful. (Thats why I am happily designing buildings from office but not dare/willing to enter the actual construction business). Honestly ask yourself why you are not entering politics? The immediate answer comes there is a lot of "gandagi". So a person who is dealing with this gandagi day in and day out is ought to be "ganda" himself. Ralely people remain clean in politics. Because unless you have very strong will and very high vision you are bound to be trapped by the people surrounding you.
So Rather then blaming the politicians, many times I think that they are doing a great job by filling the position where none of "US" want to be. After the independence there was a shortage of higly-educated people entering in the politics. In the struggle of independence all top leaders were lawyers, journalists, teachers, philosophers, scientists or such. But I don't know why very few people opted for politics after independence. So there was vacuum. This opportunity was sensed by people who did not have great visions. Thus they entered into politics and subsequent generations tried to make politics difficult to be assessed by others so that they can have monopoly over it and run it as business.
Many time I also disturbed by the gravity of the situation of our nation. But a little deeper thinking reveals that everything is in the place where it should be. If the kind of politicians we have in our Vidhansabhas and Loksabha they deserve to be there, because better than those did not dare to fight elections.
It also happens that many times we are so obsessed with dark/dirty part of politics (and for that matter any other aspect of life) that we dont see gray or white shade of it.
So the problem is multidimensional. And the last line of the mail really makes no sense. 855 crore is not even sufficient for a flood relief of a small state. It can only make life's of very few few people livable."
I keep replying to such mails with unexpected replies, and I guess some people have removed my name from their "forward" list. At least my replies did save me if not humankind/India/Hindu/Marathi/Punjabi/Tamil etc etc etc.
Please also share your views on this.
