Sunday, September 19, 2010

Indian wild boars

Just going through I read a story from somebody's blog as follows.


There was a village that was attacked everyday by wild boars for their food. The villagers tried various means to fight and chase away the wild boars, but without much success.

One day a wise man told the villagers to gather all the food from every household and put it in the middle of a big empty field. They followed his advice, and immediately they saw hundreds of wild boars approaching the vicinity where the food was placed. The wild boars were apprehensive initially, but after a while they went for the food.
Once the wild boars had a taste of the food they came back for the free food everyday. And everyday the villagers would put more food in the field and the wild boars would come to have their free meals. After a while, the wise man asked the villagers to erect four poles at the four-corners of the field.The wild boars were too busy having their food that they did not take notice of what was happening.
After a few weeks, the wild boars developed the habit of having free food. The wise man then asked the villagers to put fencing around the field, with a large gate through which the wild boars can enter to have their food. Finally once the fencing and the gate were completed the villagers closed the gate and all the wild boars were trapped inside the field. The wild boars were finally defeated!

Relevance of story is that politicians in our country has seen the poor mass as the wild boars of the story.As we come nearer to the state election of WB & TN, the two political parties TMC & DMK which are major allies of UPA in center are bargaining hard for increase in food subsidy which they can call their achievement for the cause of poor when they will go to people.We almost spend around USD 12 billion in previous financial year on food security and the major beneficiary are not poor but government officials, PDS distributor and the middle man from whom government buying in more price than market. Another major problem created by this system is creating a habit of free food which is a trap.Working people will always work and pay the tax.These power crazy politicians will be always in power by just giving the the hard yearned money as freebies and taking all the credit .Poor being uneducated will take this as a gratitude and sleep and remain ever poor.My honest request is stop all these projects as soon as possible or just confined them to pocket regions where we have seen situation like flood or drought .A poor man's real problem is that he can lost his whole life saving in medical bill and have no money to spend on education because they find it useless.So govt should come up with free hospitals irrespective of bigger nature of diseases and guarantee of free higher education for poor .There is very less chance that people over us will change and will try most not to change the people under.

Eventually boars lost their freedom ,we have almost !
We must stand and regain it.



[Peepli Live is a fabulous movie if we try to understand it.]