Dear Mr.Assange,
I must say that your organisation's expose on India has been a little disappointing. One of the first articles obtained from wikileaks and published by 'The Hindu' is actually common knowledge in this country. Money and Muscle power rule election results and luring voters with alcohol and sarees is just part of the democratic process. I think legitimising this will enable the election commission to keep watch on the actual expenses and it would be easy to keep accounts. Saves a lot of time and effort for both candidates and EC, atleast they won't have to go on a wild goose chase. There are MPs who have multiplied their assets over 500times, kins of Supreme Court Justice (the highest judicial authority in the country and the last refuge for an ordinary citizen) gathering assets worth crores in a few years.
We have known that US has arm-twisted India into accepting various demands and also India has toed the US line on many an issue (Iran vote was quite obvious). Indians are not dumb, but we choose to ignore these petty little things as long as the cricket team does well, there are engineering colleges to send our children so that they can do the back office work of MNCs for peanuts, there is a daily dose of soaps and item numbers and just a glimmer of hope to get out this misery and end this corruption which has already affected all our vital organs (yet still we limp on).
We know the government is only interested in us just before the elections and, on other days they are busy selling spectrum, real estate, minerals and the entire country to private companies and even foreign corporations. We know that the government is scuttling the working of Public Sector Enterprises to give advantage to private players and thus giving reasons to privatise them or liquidate them. Absolving themselves of all duties towards the people is the next logical step because government cannot do it properly. Healthcare, education, basic infrastructure like water, transport and electricity will soon be privatised under this excuse. We all know what is happening to Air India and BSNL. We know all this happens, but choose to feign ignorance, we know our media is simply a cheerleader for corporates and the corrupt, we know that and more and yet we would like to remain ignorant.
Please do not disturb the bliss that we have fought so hard to cover ourselves with. We don't want the red pill, we would like to be fed more and more blue pills for if we do not know all this, we do not have to worry. Please do not provide more evidence (red pills) to wake us up for there is no scope of widespread revolution like in Tunisia or Egypt, it will flicker out as long as there is a class of people who are kept happy and well fed and many others who are being given such an illusion. Let us live in this blissful ignorance and never wake up....
Hoping that you will not reply to this, hoping that there will be no more revelations how so ever important and potent,
Yours Sincerely,
A frustrated helpless Indian who will soon join the ranks of those working to sustain a growth story of Scams and 8% GDP growth rate and who would like to remain asleep
PS- I personally don't believe in escaping from reality and living in a dream world. But the recent plethora of scams has shaken everyone in this country and wikileaks is just confirming but at the same time, the reality that things are not changing is even more frustrating which lead me to this post
