Revolution in India

Well this is an after thought writing after a interesting and rather provocative conversation with my boss, her view is India is not capable of revolution! I need to give a background to the readers from where this conversation stemmed in first place.

Well we were discussing about Indians being content with what we got and my point on this is it is driven by how our family is structured. I always felt we are more emotional and deep down value driven then materialistic and the old joint family system and respect for elders and their support all pool to gether provides the peace of mind which materialistic world can not offer!. Her view is most of this indian family system are hipocrytic in nature (more from women empowerment angle!) though I may agree with certain cases on that but what is the alternative to it!?

One of the colleague pitched in saying only close to 2 % people of our country are in the salary bracket of above 10 lakhs / yr ( I need to verify this stats!) shocked me beyond words , think about being content with that!! I may be glad that i am in that 2% but i am definitely not happy that 98% of my country men are not even able to afford the best of basics (food / cloth / house all prices shooted to sky high now and add that to medical / education bills if any!!) Then the talk moved to having Industrial revolution in this country, thats where India not capable of Revolution came to focus

Surprisingly I found many share her view of India not capable of having revolution i.e fighting / sacrificing for a larger benefit than their own kind of attitude and many think that is lacking here!! then what do we call about Our Freedom fight!? (oh we got the freedom because britain wanted our help during wwII) or All our Punjab farming brothers fore fronting Green revolution (Oh they wanted to earn more!) Mind you my boss is not the one who thinks India will not improve quite contrary I found she is very patriotic! Many in young generation look up to us and if we don't give them the confidence and direction (the need for change!) where we will head! I can't be content being a part of country where the life line comes from selling labour than products. Where others dictate what we earn or how we live our lifes , if we need more control we need more enterprenurs here, we need microfinance helping jobless to become enterprenurs , we need Venture capitalist helping young enterprenurs to think Big! and we need accountable poiliticians to support all this and above all we need to be that change!

Revolution not necessarily correlates to violence, it can be like a silent prayer , a transparent change with wide impact. I see the change happening with many youngsters (refusing to vote during election!! actively discussing issues in media) all we need to do is channelize this energy and as educated I believe it is our duty to consistently advocate on need for change and direction for change and avoid negate statements .... What you think?

Update: just saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XTPSYdP08

01:47 What is the value of 500 Rs for different people ...