Two kinds of absolutely polarized views are put out every day on both the formal and social media; opinions on the current crop of political leaders, their policies and its impact on the country and the common man.
And one doesn't know what to make of it anymore!!
Modi's Demonetization has been a bad decision, as everyone had thought from the beginning. It led to huge Government and personal losses, it brought in abjectness, delayed projects, killed business and took lives.
We were told to wait, be patient and then see the fruit it would bear. Now experts are waxing eloquent on what a bad decision it was. To top it, one wonders if it has indeed brought back ALL the black money and ploughed it back into the mainstream.
As a bystander, one feels the current Government has been far less plagued by scams and money laundering than the previous one, when each day one multi crore scam stumbled after another and most politicians and bureaucracy was tainted with graft and corruption.
The current lot seem to be much less corrupt. Is that true?
A lot of them stay to be as stupid and inexperienced as the previous lot. This, one did not expect of Modi and his selection process.
In the previous regime, we all - the middle class and above - were hugely taxed with a string of taxes. The current Government made that string longer by adding one cess after another to it. And then came the mother of all - the GST. I don't know about you, but I feel almost everything has become only dearer.
Yesterday, there was another report that came out, saying that when Dr. Man Mohan Singh handed over the reins, India's growth was at about over 8%. Today it is at around 5.2%.
Maybe three years is too short a time to judge, yet I don't see any change for the better in our lives - be it infrastructure, quality of food, water and air, social security, education, public health, job opportunities.
I find myself paying more taxes for far less Return on Investment on my tax outlay.
What's worse, there is also much more negativity now and both the left and the right are raging with tempers, impatience and bad blood. We don't appear to be as secular anymore....a plank the idea of India as a nation was built on.
Sadly, Modi invites more strong reactions in either direction - more reverence and then more hatred - far more than a Sonia or a Rahul or anybody else. And that is not good. There must be a sense of balance.
So amid all this, please tell me where are we now and which way are we heading. Is Achche Din a Chimera then?
I strongly believe in the idea of India and hope that we are on the right path towards creating individual excellence and national brilliance!
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