Mission Fantasy: Do we really deserve to go for it??

Known for the world’s best public transportation system in the world, London has undoubtedly the best underground metro service one would have ever seen. Its connectivity and punctuality is something many would love to salute. Long distances have been made pretty quick and comfortable and the constant urge for its improvement has kept it alive and young all these years. The best part of it is that, it gives immense time to do some of your unfinished business. Yes, I mean it. No matter if you want to read novels, magazines, news papers, or watch movies on tablets and smart phones, play games or even if women want to do some makeup including the eyebrows and nail polish, the London underground is the best place to be ready with all these stuff without spending any extra time.

News papers and magazines has always been an attraction for me and what else could I expect from a city where newspapers and informative magazines are not sold. Yes, they are free and all the business depends on the advertisement.

Last Friday when I was travelling to the office, I came across an article which eventually has compelled me to come up with this blog.

India in news, in London!! That’s something which made me proud and to read it would be no less than a ritual to me. And if that it be a head line, that’s definitely either something too good or too bad. Well, the rocket photograph along with the bold letter “India” made me sure that I need not hide my face this time. It was the Indian mission to Mars. Followed it, were all accolades for Indians to achieve this feat. Yes we could be the fourth in world and first among the Asian countries, if we succeed and it would indeed be a remarkable feat.

Well, before I could celebrate India’s success initiative in UK, I was taken up by a cute lady’s sarcastic comment, sitting just beside me. “Are Indians eventually planning to move to mars if there would be life?”

What an absurd question it was?  All through the day, it kept on hovering over my mind and eventually I was convinced by her absurd question.

I would like to post a question to all my readers, why do we want to spend millions of pounds on missions which are of no benefit to the people? If that is only for pride, I would say, Pride is not the only thing, one could live with!

We need many more basic amenities which are the need of the hour. We don’t have a proper transportation system in place in most of the cities; we are a nation where booking a confirmed train ticket 3 months in advance, is considered to be a heroic achievement. We don’t have proper roads, bridges and other necessary infrastructure. We don’t have electricity in many villages. We do not have enough funds to provide education and employment opportunities to our youth. We do not have proper health services in many of the cities and specially villages, We do not have proper security arrangements where women can move without fear of being harassed and raped!; and above all, we do not have a lavatory in every house in the country, public toilets being a distant dream!!  

Why don’t we suffice these basic requirements which could be advantageous to the common masses?  We could have invested these funds for greater good, such as health services, primary education and other employment schemes which could provide bread and butter for people who still starve for food.

What was more painful is the fact that these funds are incurred when we (India) still take financial aid from Britain, and may be other countries which I am least bothered to learn at this moment.

Yes the English have ruled us for a considerable long period and exploited our economy, but India which we know today is quite independent at least not to beg from other countries and spend millions of rupees extravagantly on some fantasy mission. We cannot justify this spending anyway, neither to the Indians nor to other nations whom we owe.

The government need to make the people realize that they really care for them and justify the constitutional meaning of a government of the people, by the people and for the people rather than government of the people, by the people and for the fantasy.