Blame-Game, it is one of the oldest game man has ever indulged in. Adam blamed Eve and she blamed the serpent. If the serpent was a little bit intelligent like us, it would have blamed God, for creating the apple.
The retiring president of a company after a standard farewell, gave two envelopes marked No.1 and No. 2 to the incoming president, and said, “Whenever you run into a management crisis you cannot handle by yourself, open envelope No.1. At the next crisis, open the envelope No.2.”
A few years later, a major crisis cropped up. The president went into the safe and pulled out the first envelope. It said, “Blame it on your predecessor.” A few years later a second crisis occurred. The president went for the second envelope, and found it written, “Prepare two envelopes for your successor.”
When the Britishers were ruling over us, we blame them for keeping us illiterate & poor. But after independence things become worse. Now we have added few more feathers in our cap of glory like unemployment, corruption, poverty, illiteracy, terrorism and naxalite. Today nobody is as bereft as we are.
We feed our ego and justify ourselves saying that, “Once India was known as ‘golden bird’ before the Mughals and the Britishers came and robbed us.” But what we forget is that blaming is a waste of time. No matter how much fault we find with one another, and regardless of how much we blame others, it will not change us.
Truth of the matter is we are culturally rich, emotionally balanced and intellectually well-established. When the rest of the world wore leaves, we were busy inventing steel. When the rest of the world had not yet awakened to the light of learning, we were studying science. We had invented the zero much before the others saw the dawn of civilization.
But today, unfortunately, the present scenario of our country makes us realise that India is a rich nation inhabited by poor people. And the evidences which make us draw that conclusion are;
• Every night 300 million people go to bed hungry (exceeding the combined population of Canada & the USA). Whereas, if all the food grain lying unused in our warehouses were to be packed in a gunny bags and placed one after the other, it would make a path to the moon and back. Yet this country bears the cross of over 300 million starving Indians.
• Of the 350 million people living below the poverty line, nearly half of them die before the age of 40 due to malnutrition and lack of medical attention. While we’ve one Indian doctor for every 2400 Indians, we’ve one Indian doctor serving 1325 Americans in the United States.
• There is a backlog of more than 30 million court cases in India, and, on an average it takes 20 years to resolve a dispute. While we’ve 10 judges to every million people in India, the USA has 120.
• Other countries are planning to settle life in other planets and we are struggling for food, shelter, water and electricity…
• Once we were known as the world’s teacher but today 30% of the world’s illiterate population hails from and resides in India.
We can give our life and can take any action without hesitation in the name of caste, tribe, religion, church, temple and mosque but are afraid to stand against corruption, terrorist, illegal taxation, mafias and gundaraj etc. For these we always depend and blame the Government for not taking any action.
Dear fellow Indians, by seeing the present condition of our nation, nobody will believe that once our country was known as ‘The Golden Bird’. We need to do something to prove it because ‘seeing is believing.’
In Nagaland, the game of blaming is quite popular. From the layman to the leader, everyone seems to be busy justifying themselves, drawing their own neat conclusions, at times basing their comments on preposterous mere ‘information’. A wise saying goes, “The tree which bears more fruits is liable to get more stones.” So particularly those people whom the public has given the responsibility of leadership should check that blame-game and work with integrity, honesty and sincerity.
For once, stop blaming politicians and leaders. In the last 64 years, we have been playing this game only, now it’s time to find our own weakness. Today’s politicians and leaders, 64 years back, were blaming other politicians and leaders and today they are getting the same. If we also busy ourselves in blaming them without checking our weakness and shortcomings, we are going to fall in the same pit.
Today what ever is happening in our state and in India in general, our politicians and leaders are not to be blamed totally. On the contrary, it is the public who is the main culprit for spoiling this beautiful nation. Every time we blame this or that minister for poor development or for misused of public funds, but this hardly strikes us when we receive cash or kind or a promise for government job, in favour of casting our votes.
Here is a reality checklist for every layman to give a thought to before blaming politicians and leaders:
Do we go to office regularly and sit there till the last office hour?
Do we ask bribe for putting our signature on a piece of paper?
Do we give our best service even when our boss is not looking at us?
Do we follow traffic rules?
Do we pay our taxes?
Do we give bribe?
Do we spoil Government & public property in agitation?
Whether Service provided by us is money oriented or service oriented?
Even in educational settings, when a child fail in exam, the parents blames the child; the child blames the teacher; the teacher blames the principal and the principal blames the parents.
Friends, we have our own commonsense; stop living on others’ commonsense. Accept your mistake and improve it so that you won’t repeat next time and thus leave no room for people to blame you. For instance, when we as public are not satisfied, we blame the Government for illiteracy. But we should not forget that the Government is looking after the illiteracy problem of the entire nation.
Therefore the need of the hour is that the wealthy and educated people of a particular colony or village should join hands, then the illiteracy problem of that area can solved within a minute. And as we join hands to build churches, temples, mosques, we ought to make it a point too to fight against corrupted Government or communalism. Then many man-made problems can be solved automatically.
