Who says politicians don’t live up to their promises? I vividly remembered one such promise when I was travelling on the Eastern Express Highway last night. We were promised that rural and urban India would be integrated and that promise was being fulfilled even as I was approaching Vikhroli.
The highway was in tatters with potholes easily outnumbering any vestiges of a road. This stretch of alleged road had the potential to induce labour pains even in women who are not pregnant. Half the express way is accident prone and the other half is full of mini speed breakers warning about the other (accident prone) half! Potholes play the role of special effects.
Combine the above with water cuts and power cuts and very soon our city would be truly integrated with rural India.
We have “celebrated” 61 years of independence with not even 61% of our people having food, shelter and education they deserve. When we got independence democracy was being touted as government of the people, by the people and for the people. All I have seen so far is government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians.
After our loss in the test series our cricketers were expected to go all out in the ODI’s. I hear they just went and got all out! The team however believes that it’s not their fault. When Dhoni went from India the message he had for them was that everyone back home was complaining that as a nation we only think about cricket and do not concentrate on the Olympics and various other sports. It is now learnt that we lost because our team was doing its best to concentrate on the Olympics and other sports.
On the positive side the festive season has started and I'm eagerly looking forward to meeting up with friends and family as a part of the celebrations!
The highway was in tatters with potholes easily outnumbering any vestiges of a road. This stretch of alleged road had the potential to induce labour pains even in women who are not pregnant. Half the express way is accident prone and the other half is full of mini speed breakers warning about the other (accident prone) half! Potholes play the role of special effects.
Combine the above with water cuts and power cuts and very soon our city would be truly integrated with rural India.
We have “celebrated” 61 years of independence with not even 61% of our people having food, shelter and education they deserve. When we got independence democracy was being touted as government of the people, by the people and for the people. All I have seen so far is government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians.
After our loss in the test series our cricketers were expected to go all out in the ODI’s. I hear they just went and got all out! The team however believes that it’s not their fault. When Dhoni went from India the message he had for them was that everyone back home was complaining that as a nation we only think about cricket and do not concentrate on the Olympics and various other sports. It is now learnt that we lost because our team was doing its best to concentrate on the Olympics and other sports.
On the positive side the festive season has started and I'm eagerly looking forward to meeting up with friends and family as a part of the celebrations!
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