A Lover’s Story and Politics

I was traveling Powai to meet my future bride, a beautiful, young girl born in an educated family, with amazingly sweet smile. I had fallen in love with it the first time I had seen her. It was an arrange marriage and not the boy meet girl story, but it had turned out to be a love story after all. I was dreaming of her , the way she smiled, laughed, talked, touched her hair gently pushing them back, It was all so lovely. And suddenly the taxi went into this giant pot hole, I felt as if I was shaken heavily by an earthquake.
A pot hole in the middle of a highway! I had just returned from Holland, a place just 200Km by 300Km in area but kept in perfect order. Not once in those 6 months did I come across a pot hole in the highway, let alone other smaller lanes. As I kept traveling on this hilly road ( too many pot holes to call it a highway, anyway) I was wondering why this happens in India. What are the politicians in those countries doing that the politicians here are not doing?
What are the people in those countries doing that we are not doing. There is just one answer – Abide by the rules.
The people there are scared to take law in their own hands, and here we do that in our day to day lives. A fine example is – What do u do when a traffic cop catches you when you break the signal? – Give him Rs. 50 and go. You just broke the law and you don’t want to pay the fine. What are you actually doing? You are encouraging bribery and dishonesty among the policemen. Then again it’s we the people who say that police are corrupt.
We must follow the law, pay our taxes and do what is right, only then we will become great. A country as small as Goa by area can do this but we can’t. It’s sheer shame. What are we scared of?
Why cant we be honest and follow the law?
The same goes for our politicians. We have seen them raise issues that lead to communal disharmony and hatred among people. But they can’t take up the following issues
1. Make better Flyovers
2. Provide good Garbage bins
3. Provide better drinking water
4. Avoid increasing vote banks by allowing illegal immigrants to stay
5. Help police
6. Stop celebrating birthdays etc publicly
7. Stop taking city to halt and damaging public property
8. Educate the poor and teach them honesty
9. Pay your taxes
10. Spread the message of Equality

There are so many issues that need to be resolved. The people must also understand this only then we will become a great country.
I did not realize that I had passed my bride’s house, but then next pothole would soon make me realize this. Sometimes I think I need to thank these pot holes for saving my money.