Collapsing medical infrastructure

 

What we are seeing is horrifying reality of real time collapse of medical infrastructure in India. International community needs to intervene. WHO please take note. This is building up to a human tragedy of colossal scale that humanity has not seen for a long time. Most market media, as is the affliction, is concentrating on big cities where ‘people like us’ are suffering, it is quite likely a calamity of much bigger scale is unfolding in hellholes of small villages where discrimination and exploitation are rampant and systemic, where health centers are non existent. Life in India is series of tragedy for most Indians which are orchestrated by cunning arbitrators. Willful neglect of what was crucial for common people i.e. public health infrastructure is defining characteristic of this society. It is a society that lack compassion or care but position itself as moral authority with assortment of deeply disturbing nonviolence posturing and cannibalistic vegetarianism that impresses west. It’s about manipulating narration.

You cannot manipulate for too long nor recruit charlatans as PR agency, and when reality strikes it has to be dealt. Check few oft repeated data to again show how desperate the neglect is. India ranks 184 out of 191 countries in public spending on health. Despite the fact that almost 70% of India’s population lives on less than $2 a day, the country continues to have one of the highest out of pocket expenditures on health. It is estimated that 62.4% of the total current health expenditure is paid for by the patients themselves and the government only contributes 16.7%. It’s a vicious cycle that most Indians are trapped in. What we are seeing now is an accumulation of neglect of last many decades. Castetva forces put the framework and consolidated this at the expense of lives of common people as they viciously milked aspirations into personal gains. Hindutva only accentuated the misery with its own unique depravities (but yes health insurance for 12R/annum through bank accounts was commendable initiative).

The effort was always to provide template to accentuate blessing while cunningly working the narration of spiritual nation of satisfied people (who seems to have found some eternal connection that west will never comprehend. Western fluffs meanwhile dropped in to take pictures of smiling impoverished Indians for their amusement). Effort was rarely to solve the problem or be genuinely interested in finding solution, to sincerely work to develop infrastructure for human development. Fate therefore became the significant reference for common people. Take for instance how Castetva deviously encouraged culture of statue building (as an extension of valued attribute of sycophancy modified from squatter sanctum references) on street corners to consolidate their ideology in public space. This was replicated by new entrants (like say mayawati or Dravidian parties in TN), and then taken to next level by Hindutva. One cannot blame hindutva it had to establish its narration onto common people into public space. This is just another example of how castetva worked to create framework to undermine and degrade the democratic institutions. How scarce resources were being used to capture mindspace of common people and firmly push them into snarling herds. Meanwhile lacking any understanding of responsibility –expressed through competence, the society slipped into worst of references producing mediocre outputs and embarrassing attempts.

Crony capitalism produced its billionaires. As much as statues are vulgarities in public space antila -the home of richest indian, is the consolidation of collective crassness that castetva nurtured that has now possessed hindutva and is an aspiration for valueless populace. They also degraded media by nurturing nepotistic association through awards and perks. All these righteous barking by some section of media is the same that were given awards and perks by castetva, the same template now hindutva spreads –thus we have competing barking. Meanwhile an important institution of democracy stands degraded capitulated to power and market adding to the misery of common people. The same is true for art too –the one that is supposed to add richness of experience to society. Awards are being manipulated for decades. Mediocres with limited talents use power, perks and awards to consolidate their brand hence this constant haggling. What was supposed to be austere wise space like RajyaSabha (house of elders) has been ransacked by ruffians of all shape and size. Sometime back I wasted my time focusing on a disgust who posed as lyricist celebrity/ZK. Now this fellow, even as an elderly man (imagine the crassness), decides to spent time on trash talking TV feeding on vulnerable youngsters. With all opportunities one has this is how these people decide to spent their time. What kind of people are these? These crude were nurtured by Castetva (specifically because of muslim name), now Hindutva has its choice. It’s a fake binary. A waste of time. In these counter posturings of those salivating for power majority of the people across this huge land are neglected. It is but natural that they didn't have the time nor the inclination to create a robust health infrastructure nor enlightened framework for quality education. The intention was to showcase blessing, and lessons on fate. They worked their deceit by firmly controlling and manipulating narration, and that seems to be the expertise. This is the foundation of this society. It has failed miserably.              

This society failed to even invest in what was basic for survival. They thought they can handle reality by illusions of grandeur embellished by sickening sanskrit quotes of plagiarized ideas, by manipulating narration and doing some PR work (with huge population and exploitable resources corporate conglomerates have dropped money for powerful marketeers as influential mercenaries, the fixers). A society that doesn’t even understand what community means is incapable to face reality. Democracy adds to chapter of deceit. Trapped in a depraved society common people can only curse their fate and pray more fervently, and that is precisely how it is scripted. Pity.