It seems very frustrating when you realise that you do not have a choice. The sense of paralysis that comes with the realization that your voice, your concerns are systematically going to be sabotaged because they do not fit into the grand scheme of a "utopian euphoria" sold blatantly over public media, makes you feel impotent. Such a feeling I think is not healthy for the morale of a society that genuinely aims to function on an inclusive model.
Gradually over time, this gripping feeling has been haunting me that in our country slowly and slowly the public sector establishment or what one can call the " welfare state" is being reduced to the status of a manure to feed the corporate driven state. Such a development model indeed allows a competition driven society to flourish, making it possible for the motivated and resourceful to have a taste of the "pie" if I may call it. But as it stands out, motivated and resourceful are not always the same people. Former represent only a select few of the searing voices, that make up a socio-economic fabric of a country like ours.
But what becomes of the unheard ? Where would they go and what is left for them to fight for ?
Overhauling a system does not mean catering to the interest of a political or economic conglomerate just for the reason that such instruments have wider influence in shaping the structural changes (I am not still factoring in the vested interests). Recent debates over media bring to mind the example of an aquarium at home . Those who have it know that it needs to be cleaned from time to time. But to clean the aquarium the first priority is to ensure the survival of the fish during the cleaning process. Thus one makes arrangements to ensure that the fish are not harmed in the process of cleaning the tank. Once the tank is cleaned, they are brought back into it, safe and unscathed.
Such is the philosophy of initiating institutional or process changes imbibed in "Kaizen". It is a Japanese word that refers to a series of continuous changes and checks in a system or process that improves efficiency and reduces waste. This is what we need now more than ever. The decisions made in one socio-economic arena are very intricately linked up to the other ones and if this realisation is absent in the decision making process, the entire machinery will sooner or later collapse.
But what seems to be happening now is a blatant display of how power aggrandizes power, how wealth attracts wealth and how honest public opinion is either drowned in the cacophony of sycophancy or being manipulated in a very comic and oppressive manner .
What I expect from the rulers is to be sensitive and inclusive in their sensibilities. They should not be the people whose parochial vision would make their people pay for it just because they cannot escape doing so. Such sense of being and feeling victimized takes a nation far from being a democratic welfare state, an ideal we hoped to achieve and believe to be true for the sake of generations to come.
Gradually over time, this gripping feeling has been haunting me that in our country slowly and slowly the public sector establishment or what one can call the " welfare state" is being reduced to the status of a manure to feed the corporate driven state. Such a development model indeed allows a competition driven society to flourish, making it possible for the motivated and resourceful to have a taste of the "pie" if I may call it. But as it stands out, motivated and resourceful are not always the same people. Former represent only a select few of the searing voices, that make up a socio-economic fabric of a country like ours.
But what becomes of the unheard ? Where would they go and what is left for them to fight for ?
Overhauling a system does not mean catering to the interest of a political or economic conglomerate just for the reason that such instruments have wider influence in shaping the structural changes (I am not still factoring in the vested interests). Recent debates over media bring to mind the example of an aquarium at home . Those who have it know that it needs to be cleaned from time to time. But to clean the aquarium the first priority is to ensure the survival of the fish during the cleaning process. Thus one makes arrangements to ensure that the fish are not harmed in the process of cleaning the tank. Once the tank is cleaned, they are brought back into it, safe and unscathed.
Such is the philosophy of initiating institutional or process changes imbibed in "Kaizen". It is a Japanese word that refers to a series of continuous changes and checks in a system or process that improves efficiency and reduces waste. This is what we need now more than ever. The decisions made in one socio-economic arena are very intricately linked up to the other ones and if this realisation is absent in the decision making process, the entire machinery will sooner or later collapse.
But what seems to be happening now is a blatant display of how power aggrandizes power, how wealth attracts wealth and how honest public opinion is either drowned in the cacophony of sycophancy or being manipulated in a very comic and oppressive manner .
What I expect from the rulers is to be sensitive and inclusive in their sensibilities. They should not be the people whose parochial vision would make their people pay for it just because they cannot escape doing so. Such sense of being and feeling victimized takes a nation far from being a democratic welfare state, an ideal we hoped to achieve and believe to be true for the sake of generations to come.
