For a country that was touted as the land of milk and honey…for a country that was the cynosure of all eyes throughout history, for its wealth and humaneness, it is deeply distressing that India is the subject of the most shockingly despicable acts of depravity since the Covid-19 outbreak.
In April 2020, when masks were made mandatory in India, there arose reports that homes were being burgled by salesmen who would go door-to-door selling face masks that were sprinkled with chloroform. The modus operandi was the salesman would ask the unsuspecting householder to try on the chloroformed mask, and then burgle the house when the inmate would lose consciousness.
Simultaneously, there were rumours that hospitals would declare a Covid-19 patient dead and harvest the organs of the dead, then wrap up the body entirely, and forbid the relatives of the deceased from exposing the body. Whether, the deceased actually died of Covid-19 or was deliberately murdered within the racketeering hospital, is a matter of conjecture.
Hospitals in India are known to declare gullible patients as being infected with Covid-19, whether they have contracted it or not, and charge them with a hefty bill for hospitalisation and other services.
The medical profession in India is known to make the most of vulnerable citizens. Often people selling their property and valuables, to pay bills for ailments they have been diagnosed with, which may or may not be a honest diagnosis. It may seem like hearsay, but the practice of conducting bypass surgery on hapless victims, who have not an iota of heart trouble, is not new in India.
Unscrupulousness and ingenuity have gone a step further with the vaccine roll-out. Now fake vaccines (placebos) are being utilised in a money-making racket at a huge cost to the gullible victims. Racketeers are making hay, name-dropping names of recognised medical institutions, in their bid to defraud the public. It is believed that staff in recognised medical institutions, who get a kickback, are abetting the fraudsters by authorising them with letters and certificates, to carry on their nefarious activities.
The moral fabric of the country, that was the breeding ground for three of the most humane religions in the world – Buddism, Jainism and Hinduism – has turned rancid. In India, it is the rich and powerful who avail of justice, while the multitudes don’t have a chance at getting any. This, in a democracy whose founding fathers imagined would be just and free for all. The rich and powerful, in most cases, simply turn a blind eye to the suffering of the masses. In India, mercenary and wilful individuals have capitalised on the predominant mindset of the public to `let it be’ or `chalta hai’ , which arises out of the Hindu philosophy of Karma or fate.
Politicians and bureaucrats keenly follow methods to make money or access power, in a country where graft to get past even the lowest of the bureaucracy is a done thing. The mafia reigns in every nook and cranny of the country. Even Bollywood, responsible for India’s pop culture, is a subject of that. Many leading lights in Bollywood have sold their souls to a mafia don, who remote controls from Karachi, Pakistan, and who was the brain behind the serial Mumbai bomb blasts in March 1993.
Hinduism, the predominant religion in India, preaches that when a guest comes to your house, give him your food to eat and your bed to sleep on, even if you have to go hungry and sleepless. But these exemplary traditions don’t apply any more, in a country that has gone blind to its rich culture and heritage, where people are out to make a fast buck out of their own brethren…A country where democracy is believed to be thriving, but where injustice, corruption and blatant misuse of power is the order of the day.
The legacy of the rich institutions, left behind by those who sacrificed their lives for the independence and freedom of India, are suffocating, with the avarice and corruption of their inheritors. India is a country that needs to rediscover its soul. An earnest government will have to take out the weeds by their roots. It is a matter of exigency, if India intends to lead the world by example, in the future.
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Agree to some extent Monte , but you know India not just houses a plethora of colours , food , landscapes etc etc – but of human behaviours and emotions > amny of my classmates back in india are in the service industry running their own buinesses or emplyed and the stories I get to hera about the good they are doing and other stories of the many kind deeds from people makes me disagee with the charaterisation that all of India and its people are unscruplous . there are people who have donated vast sums to people living in the slums . people have lent a helpiong hand to daily wage workers and some have organised vaccination sites for their local community at their own costs . There will always be rotten apples , but India is a country where good will always overcome the bad . this is my belief or maybe my illusion of this beautifuly land of the Indoos ( later called Indus , and thats where Hindus as a race came from o.e people of the Indood valley . ( I read this from a credible site )
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