Stuck in time

At any given time, we have an Indian walking whole nights and days to pilgrimages, the only benefit being fitness.
Crores of rupees are collected in the temples and their respective trusts and no accountability or benefit is shared with the common man.
Most of the propaganda still includes Shree Ram, Shree Krishna, Chhatrapati Shivaji and various figures, real or imaginary, to brainwash the majority – the uneducated people.
Thank Almighty God and his entire team for all the vaccines and the timely in(ter)ventions happening all around us that help us survive.
I belong to a district in Karnataka wherein every year, millions of rupees are collected voluntarily by every clan (primarily due to fear of displeasing the spirits), to perform various poojas to appease the spirits.
The joke is “ kola manpu na aaye gaadi get unde, kola manpauna aaye, gaadi maariye” Translated, it means, “ The man who performs the ritual buys a car, the man who sponsors it, sells his car.”
What have we invented or achieved as an Indian, individually or collectively, all these years - post independence?
We are a land of people who always seem to be stuck in time.
After claiming the first and only cricket world cup in 1983, all we can do now is celebrate it’s anniversary. Pathetic is a very mild word to express embarrassment.

Kya main bolu?

Exactly, five and a half months after the British fled India, the Mahatma was shot dead by a Hindu.
The stage was set for the Panditji to tackle underdevelopment, unemployment, Kashmir, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, the sown seeds of the departing British, Lord Dick Mountbottom ;) and the adulterous Edwina Ashley.

2008
The Gandhis (the neo Nehrus) are in power along with a clutch of several other parties. The situation is the same. Added to the scenario is rampant corruption, wily and unscrupulous politicians (who care two hoots even though they can foresee the kind of remnants, they will leave behind, for the next generation).
A different Gandhi is being marketed every time to befriend the voter.
Conviction does not happen in India anymore.
If a VDIS was declared, especially for politicians and their friends and families… Mr. FM could have a fairytale of a budget next year.
You have to take your family for an outing on a Sunday evening to the nearest mall… (can existence get more pitiful than that?)
Forty minutes spent in a stationary position and that too in an afternoon traffic… (the reason : no signal and no police)
The car is affordable, but the fuel…
The house is almost affordable, but the car park… (you have to pay hard cash, upfront)