There are money bags scouting
poorer societies as investors -extolled as divine exotic species by market
media, as saviours, while greedy corrupt politicians fall over each other to supplicate
the new deity ensconced in traditional cultural pointers, the astounding deceit
spontaneously acquires banality, indeed we are expected to, it is ordained.
The money bags are god's way of informing us of copious blessings granted that
we ordinary mortals have no option but to supplicate, and who else to take the
lead but the elected representatives keen on sharing the blessing, the arduous task
of doing for the sake of people. Economists and feudal positioners -working as gravy
train gate keepers, authenticate it as beginning of economic development, the
harbingers of prosperity. The GDP. Meanwhile it's beginning of misery for common
people, first they will be threatened, offered some paltry incentives or else
driven out. Money bags will land to exploit the ‘resources’ that
took billions of years in making, rampaging the precious nature, fragile ecosystem
and leave the environment polluted and degraded. As they grab and accrue their profits
others are left to fend for themselves. In corrupt and nepotism driven crony capitalism
there are no checks and balances, laws are subjective, human lives are cheap
and environment not valued whatsoever. Mediocrity
thriving Indian economic story is hinged on exploiting nature and fleecing
huge population -desperate people in iniquitous society trapped and wallow in
its own muck, and from these despicable frames arise the icons, greedy insipid constantly beckoning to snare.
Anil Aggrawal, Indian born but
now typically NRI (I gather it is a lucrative move, you really don’t see Non-resident
Britain in India do you?) is another of WarrenAndersons of our time that we have to
endure, who are waiting for opportunity to blatantly exploit whatever can be monetised
and wherever can be monetised while democratic institutions are severely
compromised. Natural resources are common property and no one should be able to
make such profit so as to become billionaires or even millionaires. It should
be so taxed that major revenue must be go to the state and therefore to the
welfare of the people. Unfortunately that doesn’t happen, and really cannot
happen in a society that function in moral vacuum while protagonists scheme sickening
self-righteousness as compensation. Lawyers and feudals stampede as economists
and policy makers with keen sense of entitlements and how to trickle it down as requirements of fate.
It is no wonder this society nurtures manipulators and scoundrels, and every town
has its own success story doubling on misery to surrounding. Money therefore
becomes sign of blessing, and the favour is returned by much publicized and reverent action of filling
up of hundi with gold and untold riches. The deity is favored as conniving policy
makers and exploiters converge while squatters help keep a tag. This therefore percolates
onto hapless people who crowd onto such sites as these are fed as sure signs of powerful
god adept in dispensing blessing -so queue in, stampede and beg. Hence the irony of richest temples, poorest people and beggar minds playing catch up game in moral vacuum that percolates as attitudes and behaviors,
hence as societal norms.
We don’t need charity of likes of
Andersons or Aggrawals, what is needed is strict monitoring of exploitation of
natural resources, equitable distribution of profits for the betterment of society
and as a compensation for environment and ecosystem degradation. Natural resources
cannot be private property of individuals to showcase their blessings and then
patronize as charity. The audacity of Aggrawal to use state machinery to murder
hapless people who were protesting against degradation of living space and immense
hardship to their livelihood is a breaking point. Likes of him should be
checked.
