Are We Running Together?

Last 6-8 months have been eventful for Indians.
We saw India conquering the world in our beloved sports, We saw some justice made after sending few VVIPs to tihar jail, We participated and showed our anger against corruption on the street.
I felt there are few signs that shows we are heading in right direction. Well, though we have not achieved fruitful results, there are lot many things to cheer about. We are economically developing nation and these signs should encourage and push us more!

Few moments after these encouraging thoughts, My mind posed few more questions with which we are not very comfortable. These questions raised by less interesting news than the news stated above. It asked the question "Are we really heading in right direction?" if yes, "Are we really running together?"

First let us look at the less interesting news:

• Four Indians among 50 richest people on the Planet
• India does not have an entry in 'Most Liveable' cities yet
• Our proposed Anti corruption laws are regressive

Though these news have less interconnection among them, if you wear right cynical glasses you can make few points out of these news:

• We have all the potential , We have capacity to make many more riches.
  We have more billionaires than Australia and Germany put together in top 50.
• We are growing, but we are yet to create a 'Liveable' atmosphere!.
  We donot have a single Liveable city in top 100, but Australia and Germany have more than 6 cities in top 25 liveable cities!.
  It is sad but it worries even more when you consider the criterias (Stability,Healthcare ,Culture and environment ,Education ,Infrastructure) on which Liveability of cities are rated.
• When you read the full interview of Arundhati Roy, Irrespective of whether you agree with the concern she raises or not , what we need to agree upon is 'Economical inequality'.
  As she says "The real issue is what is it that has created a society in which 830 million people live on less than Rs 20 a day and you have more people and all of the poor countries of Africa put together"

These facts pose many more questions. Why do we have this scenario? who is responsible and who needs to correct this? Have our System\Policies failed to create a real growth?

We are all running very fast for grabbing thousands of opportunities offered in the world today and rightly so. But maybe this is also the time for taking a little pause and asking the question to ourselves "Are we running together?".
Because One thing is sure, We are very proud of milestones achieved by Tendulkar,Dravid. But we are more happy about 'Team India's Win!' .

Hope we will not wait until another 'Anna' to make us run together :-).