An anecdote by … was it GK Chesterton? He along with nine friends went to buy hats. The shopkeeper had only 9! Pat came a solution by one of them: chop off one person’s head!
Take the ban on liquor shops within 500m of the highway. Some percentage of deaths are due to drunken driving: (do we know how much?) The solution to this is the law banning drinking and driving. The implementation of the Law lies with the Police who are wonting. So, we chop of the heads of the liquor shop owners! Problem solved.
The Ganges is highly polluted. Modi never knew this all the time he was CM of Gujarat. When he decided to contest from Varanasi, he was appalled. He thought he could clean it in a jiffy and publicly stated so. When he found, this was not so easy he created Swachh Bharat as Plan B to bail him out. Till November 2016, Rs 2800 crores were spent on cleaning the Ganges — without stopping the incoming pollution from his beloved factories. Chopping off the head of the poor farmers’ who could have benefitted from the above expenditure.
Government pushing for MoI in vernacular: says this is world-wide philosophy. Solution is: do not have any English medium schools: aided or non-aided. Instead, solution being suggested: cut off the heads of the marginalised and let the heads of the rich get the advantage of a handicap.
China is going ahead with power plants and road infrastructure. However, China has built Industrial Parks in barren uninhabited land even transplanting trees and making artificial lakes. Highways are through uninhabited terrain.
India is now taking short cuts to development. Instead of building new highways, we, including Goa, are widening existing roads running through habitats. True, in the short run there will be benefits. India will move forward. But in the long run these measures will boomerang and India will fall further behind. Shortcuts are never a solution.
Vasco was reeling under coal dust. Solution? Transport the same by river. Meaning chop off the heads of the villagers instead of the Vasco citizens!
Gadkari says he bulldozes obstacles and that cow vigilantes are not from his party: then why does he not bulldoze them?
Same policy in football. World over, corporates buy football clubs and the money goes to the owners. In India, the AIFF ‘floats’ new clubs — both in I-League and ISL merger — and the money goes to the AIFF! Chop of the heads of existing decades old clubs!
