To Err is Human – -- -- -- -- Our Tryst With Destiny

On 8th august 2012
The Buzz world today is “Mission Curiosity” which realistically presents great hope for life over the dream destination of Mars in search of water and life hence ushering a new dawn for career in space spearheaded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in order to make our planet a better. Really one soars in skies of hope and imagination with dramatic touch of Curiosity rover on the red planet.


When my imagination was having lofty dreams of future suddenly I got an automated call from BSNL asking me to clear my dues or my phone will stop working from 1st of May onwards. I got baffled not because of reminder but the deadline of 1st May as it was already 8th august when whole world was celebrating this great event with lots of hope and curiosity.



My imagination soared down to more realistic  world about humane approach towards the technology,users and impact in India.How we Indians have made a mess out of it.Flashback brings forth the hopes associated with the promises and fears which ultimately rippled from these empty promises.


Roadmap of the  every new project unveiled since independence signals great hopes and acts as precursor towards alleviating majority of India’s existing predicaments vis-a-vis creating hope for a better tomorrow. Still 65 years after independence lot of questions keep on haunting from the midnight of 15th august 1947, when we made a Tryst With


Destiny.Does promise made with destiny stands redeemed? Does the soul of the nation, long suppressed found its vocal chord in this modern advancement? If ‘Yes’ then poverty, ignorance, disease and inequality of opportunity among millions of Indians should have ended. If ‘No’ then this is not the India dreamt by Architects of this great nation.


Intricacies of situation necessitate studying the problem from wider perspective. Has technical development gone awry OR True humane effort which stems from true nationality and integrity stands missing? Judging the present day scenario it seems our value system has gone corrupted and politics of opportunism and favouritism stands amid redeeming our pledge.This ethos presents a great threat to nation in wake of newer and sophisticated weapons of warfare from chemical to biological to cyber available with mankind at click of button. Uncertainty grips the nerves when counterfeit advancements made assuring to resolve existing wows of poverty, hunger, Illiteracy and mal-nutrition still widens the gap between haves and have nots. The day NASA is exuberant over completion of its ambitious mission curiosity, the ambit of problems India still face depicts pictures of a failed democratic set up which has lost its credibility.

  
This socio,political and economic hotch potch and our bucket crabs approach combined with apathy of Executive Head of State  “We don’t have magic wand” and major social and political movements of creating awareness among citizens getting discounted towards so called lousy advancement  has left the rift even wider between opulent and poor.Excuses of ‘fallibility of human nature’ and ‘To Err is humane’ by people in power from Grids Failure to criminality to corruption to legitimacy or illegitimacy of government leaves  homo sapiens of India with no other choice but to wait and watch  for the outcome of this mission set  forth by our fore fathers.Keeping Fingers Crossed.