DEEP ROUTED PROBLEMS The nexus between the Ministry and corporate world is well known and confirmed in India after the Radia tapes but is only now being exposed with police investigations into the Oil Ministry scandal and scam. National and the aam admi's interest are invariably taken for a royal ride! It is reported that Maharashtra wants Z+ security for Rs 1,900 crore statue of Shivaji to be built in the Arabian sea to protect it from terrorists ! Hindutva, voting your caste instead of casting your vote for competent candidates, crime and rape, corruption,littering,spitting etc has not significantly been minimised despite so much propaganda and awareness created by media and education in schools and public forums . Anna Hazare has to agitate with farmers wary of government ordinance to help private players by waving mandatory social impact assessment and consent clause! We have cops severely thrashing merely on suspicion, a boy resident of Calangute; mobs and MLA taking law into own hands and demolishing dance bars and so on. The MGP does not want to change its name from Marathawadi to a Goa Regional Party and such deep routed problems need a new lot of people with scientific temper and modern compassionate minds (change in mind set) in this fast changing world. Yesterdays solutions will not work for today's problems! Perhaps it is centuries of being dominated or being treated like slaves or second class citizens. The VIP culture seems so ingrained that if someone in authority behaves like an ordinary mortal, we go Ga Ga! Prime Minister Modi is testing the way. He addresses President of the United States as Barrack, goes and lunches in the Parliament canteen and even pays for it! The TV reported gushes the breaking headline news dominating media. The menu and a re-assembled thali items are shown to us, the "historic occasion" is recorded with his remarks in the Suggestion Book! Meanwhile Maharashtra CM has to apologise to public for inconveniencing people due to his motorcade and enforced police action. Regarding VIP exemption list at Dabolim airport, only Vadra's name is removed leaving the other 30 untouched! As if we do not have enough Deities, they want to build more temples for living personalities like Amitab Bachan, Sachin Tendulkar, Modi and even for the man who shot the Mahatma! In Goa at the Secretariat, I see police saluting the MLAs/ bureaucrats, even pushing people(who in fact can be considered their employers) out of the way for the important person smooth passage after opening the expensive driver driven car door! It is up to us to join the NDTV "Say No To VIP Culture" movement. Only when people demand equal treatment with dignity for all citizens will this VIP class and all that goes with it disappear
