Even sitting thousands of miles away from my country, I get goosebumps thinking of its future given the recent terror strikes. Thousands of people get killed because of handful of extreme-minded terrorists. Just read a nice article in HT to how to fight terrorism. If the politicians stop taking just 1% of the bribe, then also the steps are not impossible. One day I was thinking if this will ever end.. if the people will ever live in peace. And I thought that it is almost impossible. Modern day terrorism is another form of old days wars fought among kings. The lust for more will never be gone and one country will always try to conquer another. Just that now we call provinces to be countries and the whole situation is also affected by 'globalization'. No longer people(conquerers) think to conquer areas within like hundred of miles. Everything has to be at a larger scale. But one thing is same - plight of common people. How does it matter to people of Kashmir if they are in Pakistan or India or their own country if their life is peaceful?
Though, it is almost impossible to eradicate terrorism, we can definitely fight it. There are just a few steps to make people more aware and build the infrastructure to find bad people. Why can't India have something like SSN (Social Security Number) such that one can have all information about a person through a single ID number. You need to have a SSN to open a bank account, take a loan, get employed, get cell phone, get driver's license, fill tax forms or to do mostly everything. If the govt. has this information for all the citizens, can't it easily find an abrupt activity? I agree its difficult to introduce this in a nation of more than 1 billion people but what are we lacking infrastructure wise to introduce this? Computers - no we have enough, people - no we have too many, Money - yes somewhat, Motivation - yes.. I think the politicians do not want to introduce this as most of the times they are corrupt and do not want all their information available through one ID number.
Most of the answers boil down to the fact that we have corruption in the very roots. Why don't we install security cameras all around? Because, people will steal them in less than a day with the help of local policemen! Until and unless, the corruption in police is not gone.. almost everything is impossible. You shd see this video on youtube - story of a 100 rupees note. Its hilarious and brings out the amount of corruption in everyone's life. Yesterday, one of my friends was saying that they have to bribe people in the administration to get no-dues required for graduation within a day, which otherwise takes at least a week. And do you know the institute? IIT Roorkee... can you believe this? And I guess all profs know about this (his dad is a really good prof). Why can't they do anything? They are the govt. of the Institute. But I guess some of them might as well be involved in the whole cycle of corruption - corruption in our technical fest, fun fest, no-dues and etc. etc. (I am sorry if this hurts any prof of IITR but this is the 'truth' we all students know. Some of them might as well be rumors but I am sure that there is corruption for getting no-dues- at least among the non-teaching staff). May be the profs don't even know about the bribe taking for giving no-dues. Why don't the students tell the authorities? Why can't they come ahead and complain against the spoilers? Because the students are just interested in getting their work done. Right now they are taking money to give no-dues, next day you know they need money to do any damn thing. I am just so sorry to know that one of the top institutes of India has corruption among the staff. I never paid anything to anyone in my four years at IITR. Guess things just change within a yr!
I hope one day everything will be okay... and I am waiting for that day.
Though, it is almost impossible to eradicate terrorism, we can definitely fight it. There are just a few steps to make people more aware and build the infrastructure to find bad people. Why can't India have something like SSN (Social Security Number) such that one can have all information about a person through a single ID number. You need to have a SSN to open a bank account, take a loan, get employed, get cell phone, get driver's license, fill tax forms or to do mostly everything. If the govt. has this information for all the citizens, can't it easily find an abrupt activity? I agree its difficult to introduce this in a nation of more than 1 billion people but what are we lacking infrastructure wise to introduce this? Computers - no we have enough, people - no we have too many, Money - yes somewhat, Motivation - yes.. I think the politicians do not want to introduce this as most of the times they are corrupt and do not want all their information available through one ID number.
Most of the answers boil down to the fact that we have corruption in the very roots. Why don't we install security cameras all around? Because, people will steal them in less than a day with the help of local policemen! Until and unless, the corruption in police is not gone.. almost everything is impossible. You shd see this video on youtube - story of a 100 rupees note. Its hilarious and brings out the amount of corruption in everyone's life. Yesterday, one of my friends was saying that they have to bribe people in the administration to get no-dues required for graduation within a day, which otherwise takes at least a week. And do you know the institute? IIT Roorkee... can you believe this? And I guess all profs know about this (his dad is a really good prof). Why can't they do anything? They are the govt. of the Institute. But I guess some of them might as well be involved in the whole cycle of corruption - corruption in our technical fest, fun fest, no-dues and etc. etc. (I am sorry if this hurts any prof of IITR but this is the 'truth' we all students know. Some of them might as well be rumors but I am sure that there is corruption for getting no-dues- at least among the non-teaching staff). May be the profs don't even know about the bribe taking for giving no-dues. Why don't the students tell the authorities? Why can't they come ahead and complain against the spoilers? Because the students are just interested in getting their work done. Right now they are taking money to give no-dues, next day you know they need money to do any damn thing. I am just so sorry to know that one of the top institutes of India has corruption among the staff. I never paid anything to anyone in my four years at IITR. Guess things just change within a yr!
I hope one day everything will be okay... and I am waiting for that day.
