04-23-2004, 04:10 PM
Kaushal garu,
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Sharing a dream would qualify as doing something, right ? Especially for something that is shared - like matroobhoomi ?
Viren,
Yes you are right. The problem with our setup is this. Each person, community, district, state, linguistic group, caste, whatever just has to deal with one central entity. On top of that our govt gets elected once every 5 yrs. The citizen just gets involved in nation building just once every 5 years and "gets the monkey off his back" to steal from Kaushalji. Worse our common gujju doesnt have to deal *directly* with a common mallu or common tamil doesnt have to deal with a common bhaiyya. With some kind of mechanism that gets ordinary citizens to deal with each other and in the task of nation-building we will get more involved in the task of nation building (or doing something as Kaushal says) and sarkar-mai-baap will have to involve citizens at important steps and not just once every 5 years..
Sorry, will cut rambling short.. <!--emo&
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is pie in the sky only if one does nothing about the dream. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sharing a dream would qualify as doing something, right ? Especially for something that is shared - like matroobhoomi ?
Viren,
Yes you are right. The problem with our setup is this. Each person, community, district, state, linguistic group, caste, whatever just has to deal with one central entity. On top of that our govt gets elected once every 5 yrs. The citizen just gets involved in nation building just once every 5 years and "gets the monkey off his back" to steal from Kaushalji. Worse our common gujju doesnt have to deal *directly* with a common mallu or common tamil doesnt have to deal with a common bhaiyya. With some kind of mechanism that gets ordinary citizens to deal with each other and in the task of nation-building we will get more involved in the task of nation building (or doing something as Kaushal says) and sarkar-mai-baap will have to involve citizens at important steps and not just once every 5 years..
Sorry, will cut rambling short.. <!--emo&
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