Divine intervention is what India desperately needs. Everything seems to be in a shambles and the mental level and IQ of those who administer this country is pathetic. If there is one collective that has wrought destruction, it is the bureaucracy. Their all pervasive ?power? has spelled stagnation and has put us in the category of nations that have lost it.
One recent example is ludicrous, to say the least: a tiger attacks some tourists in a jeep in the Bandhavgarh National Park. Nobody is killed. We do not know whether the tourists were misbehaving in the forest thereby frightening the animal, or whether the driver abandoned the jeep (that is the story), but we do know that there was an ?accident?. Accidents are accidents and by definition are not normal occurrences. The chief of Project Tiger woke up that morning from his stupor and ordered with a flourish that all jeeps hereafter will become mobile cages! There is only one word that can describe this knee-jerk reaction ? asinine. Just think of an analogy ? if after a road accident where a person succumbs to injuries, all cars and other vehicles are banned from plying on the roads, would it be a rational decision? If an airplane crashes, is the solution to disband aviation? Should everyone with a legal case against them be chained? Accidents happen all over the world. Wildlife parks in Kenya and South Africa register accidents every year but their bureaucrats do not react in an absurd fashion.
It is this breed of people that have killed us off and reduced us to being a groveling and insecure nation. The world moves on and India is regressing at the hands of the bungling and often dishonest administrative machinery. Our cities have been mutilated by them and their ineptitude, our forests have been denuded because many are in cahoots with those who encroach, our heritage has been defaced, our institutions have withered away with babus at the helm, who have no knowledge of what they are in charge of. Somewhere deep down they know this to be the reality and are desperate to cling on to their fiefdoms. The babu is adept at surviving. These men and women are holding India to ransom. There are exceptions but the bulk of them leave much to be desired.
Babus are an impediment in every sector. Their primary contribution has been to suffocate entrepreneurship and stifle the new energy. They believe all should be subservient to them. Jealousy haunts them. They have to impede success. They never celebrate anything outside of their deadly fraternity. They do not have the guts or wherewithal to get out of their fortress and face the real world and build their fortunes. Instead, they remain parasites of those who generate the wealth for India. When caught out, they pass the buck, blame their junior colleagues and their political bosses.
The entire country knows that if an enterprise wants to get on with their job, they must put some babus on their payroll! This seems to be a taken. Maybe the first thing that needs to be done is to remove all subsidies that these people live on ? their accommodation to start with. Rules must be simplified leaving no room for manipulation and interpretation. That is when they will have to stand up and be counted.
All this is no exaggeration. In recent years, the Supreme court has had to intervene in the area of the Executive. This speaks volumes about the bureaucracy.