Birthdays should be utilised for taking stock of situation as to what one has achieved vis-à-vis his goals in life, instead of cutting cakes and merry making. And this should be extended to the nation on its independence day.
Taking stock of India on its recent 65 th independence day, Kushwant Singh in his column “in perspective” in Deccan Herald dated 3.9.2011 says we did well as a Democracy,but we would have fared better in development”. We remained a Democracy but for a brief spell of Emergency. Kushwant however he is a known supporter of Emergency and that he shared Sanjay’s impatience and believed his motto “work more, talk less” would have speeded up our developments efforts.
Our leaders feel being a democracy we have done better than our neighbours – Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka. But everyone agrees that communist China has done much better than us. The only explanation for their success is they work a lot harder than us. It is time we cut down on our holidays and increase our working hours. In other words “work more, talk less” minus the Emergency?!
Is is at all possible? Lets take stock of things on next Independence Day.
I agree with Khushwant. Do you ?
