Democracy vs Development

I start on a happy note today. Its been good time; my parents are in town and infact its quite amazing to find pleasurable moments at home. The weather has grown awesome and the mighty sun has disappeared in the sky since couple of days. All you can see are the thick black clouds and the strong winds honing over them. Perfect mood setting environment for a fun-filled atmosphere. Hence No more the usual topics today. Instead as per suggestion from one of my closest colleague, Punit, I start to discuss on a very debatable topic: The Indian Democracy - the worthiness of being a democratic nation. Truly the term 'democratic' has first been misused and misinterpreted by a huge section of Indian Population and politico. Well India was never prepared for being a democratic nation untill it had first addressed the equality in caste and checked for the corruption. Huge Population has always been the biggest problem and you can imagine the impact of sheer numbers in democracy. How I wished democracy was based on brains and not simply on numbers. For even the cattle-class and four-legged species account for huge numbers. They too can claim a liablity in their role in the Indian democracy. Its either way, there is no respite for the common Indian. Its either the rich man's game - the money power, or simply the huge illterate mass effect - the number without logic. Democracy can never be justified when people vote for their leader when they least know about ther leadership. Truly the large masses have the voting appeal for a same-caste leader or even region. There is simply no logic applied in this kind of political arena. Leaders like Mamta, Mayawati, Lalu do not in plain context qualify in simple terms for being even a polite human being first, forget about they being huge political figures. How on earth can you as a literate and democratic citizen be a mute spectator to the dirty games played at the name of democracy. Surely the intelligent minds know the kind of cunning leaders there are and even know their own personal gains and startegy, how these other section of the society nominate these leaders tells lot about the negativity of democracy in India. How there are internal terrorists, naxalites and maoists and why cannot the government tackle these issues like the US. Simply because the government does not want to lose the voting numbers. Feels pathetic at the plight, there are countless cases of political menace, the misuse of political power or money. The goondaraj from the sons and daughters of eminent but worthless political figures. These politicians play nice cunning games - they will highlight and blame Pakistan for any external terrorism act and do all noise in showing how worse a country like Pakistan is. But what they do for internal Naxal and maoists strikes? Keep mum and people will forget everything. They can't take chances in combating them and losing the political battle. Sheer disgusting.
The common man is to be equally blamed too. Not that Jaago-re campaign is minuscule or unimportant, but that majority of the masses have to take the initiative to change the system and not be just spectators. A refrom is needed in the Indian administration to change the figure of its political charm. We cant be happy calling ourselves democratic when really our age old issues are still unaddressed when we say the power vests in our hands. This is so untrue and unjustified that we call it a democracy. Perhaps there are more things to resolve the issue. Perhaps the population problem will be the toughest for Indians to handle. Perhaps India will take years to still remain on the path towards a developed nation. We dont like to live in future, we prefer to spend time in present. We like to call ourselves a 'developing nation' and for same reason, we shall not exactly change for a developed one.