Is it perpetual winter for us?

After 64 years of independence we remain a dirt poor country where hundreds of millions remain illiterate, where over 40% of children are malnourished and where the same family continues to loot and oppress us generation after generation. Why do we put up with it? From time to time people explode with rage as when they supported Anna Hazare in his campaign against corruption or when they came out on the streets after the gang rape of a young woman inside a bus in December last year but then it fades away and the scoundrels continue to enjoy their lives of debauch at our expense. On 17 December 2010 Mohamed Bouzizi, a street vendor in Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, set himself alight after his cart was confiscated by municipal authorities. This set off a wave of protests forcing the President, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia and starting, what came to be known as, the " Arab Spring ". On 25 January 2011 protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to demand jobs, housing and marriage. This eventually led to the fall of President Hosnni Mubarak who is now on trial for the killing of over 800 protesters. Ruthless dictators could not suppress genuine protests. Perhaps, dictators are not ruthless enough. On 4 June 1989 the Chinese Communist Party sent tanks into Tiananmen Square to crush a student revolt demanding more freedom. Soldiers used live rounds on unarmed students killing thousands. The protests were crushed. In elections held on 12 June 2009 in Iran the sitting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lost to opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi but won by blatant rigging of the results. Protests erupted across Iran but were brutally suppressed by the police and Basij militia thugs. Mousavi and Mehdi Karrobi are still under house arrest. On 26 of last month people in Istanbul began protesting against building a mosque and Ottoman era barracks at Taksim Gezi Park. Protesters were drenched in tear gas and blasted by water cannons. The Prime Minister has said that " development " work will go ahead regardless. In 1989 students in India protested against the adoption of the Mondol Commission report by the VP Singh government. Many were shot dead by police. The pernicious practice of reservation continues to this day. Communism, religious fanatics and democratic governments will kill any number to win. Dictators seem better. There is no hope of spring for us. Sad.