Saturday, April 02, 2011

India is a police state. Politicians are criminals and civil servants are thieving parasites. The population has reached 1.2 billion with high youth unemployment. Inflation is at 10%. The Radia tapes revealed the unholy nexus between politicians, civil servants and industrialists. Between 1995 and 2009, in 15 years 250000 farmers have committed suicide that is 2 per day. One would think that India is ripe for a revolution of the kind sweeping the Arab world but no such luck. Instead people are totally focussed with the cricket World Cup. So are we more thick skinned than Arabs? Probably, but there are two other reasons. Firstly, India is not controlled by just one family. Instead we have adopted the Italian model where various families such as the Camorra, Ndrangheta and Sacra Corona Unita have carved up the country into territories. India too has been divided into parts controlled by various Families who are heads of gangs called Parties. The Family has been around since independence and has acted as an inspiration to others. The second reason is language or, in our case languages. Every country has just one official language spoken and understood by all. Arabic is spoken throughout the Arab world and though accents may differ from country to country it is understood by all. Whichever revolution we take - French, Russian, Iranian, Czech or even Chinese all had this one thing in common. This allowed information to spread fast and protest to be coordinated across the land. India, on the other hand, has over 25 languages and, apart from the English speaking middle class, is unable to understand each other. This protects our Qaddafis.

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