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Justice
Markandey Katju has identified the 'terrible challenges' facing India in his
article. These challenges include issues like poverty, unemployment,
malnutrition and casteism. Know how developed countries prevent underdeveloped
countries from progressing and how India will have to deal with these
challenges.
India's fearful odds
By
Justice Markandey Katju
Lord
Macaulay, in his 'Lays of Ancient Rome' wrote
:
"Then
out spake brave Horatius
The Captain
of the gate
To every man
upon this earth
Death cometh
soon or late
And how can
man die better
Than facing
fearful odds
For the
ashes of his fathers
And the
temples of his Gods."
India is
facing fearful odds today. What are those fearful odds ? Let me explain.
Our main
enemies today are massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of
child malnutrition ( every second child in India is malnourished, according to
Global Hunger Index ), almost total lack
of proper healthcare and good education for the masses, etc.
We should
have got rid of these evils by now, since 77 years have passed since Independence. But in many respects things have gone worse. Why ?
It is
because of the 'fearful odds' which we are facing, but about which hardly any
Indian is aware of. This needs to be explained in detail, because without
knowing what these fearful odds are, how can we face and combat them?
As I
explained in some earlier articles, this world is really divided into two
worlds: (1) the world of the developed, highly industrialized countries, (North
America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and China) and (2) the world of the
underdeveloped countries (which includes India).
I also
explained that among the developed countries there is a secret rule ( which
they will never mention openly) that underdeveloped countries must not be allowed to become developed, for
if that happens then with their cheap labour the products of the underdeveloped
countries will undersell the products of the developed countries, causing the
industries of the latter to collapse ( as they will not be able to face the
competition from the underdeveloped countries which, having cheap labour, will
sell their goods at a much cheaper price
). This will result in unemployment of millions of people in the developed countries.
Hence the developed countries will oppose tooth and nail the transformation of underdeveloped countries into developed countries, and for that they make people in the underdeveloped countries fight each other on the basis of religion, caste, language, race etc. For example, in India the Prime Minister Modi is an agent of the developed countries, as he incites Hindus and Muslims to fight each other.
So a
'fearful odd' for underdeveloped countries like India are the developed
countries, which will oppose with all their might the transformation of India
from a backward to a highly developed and highly industrialized country
Another fearful odd are feudal forces like casteism and communalism which are widespread and deeply entrenched in India. Combating these 'frightful odds' will noi be an easy task. In fact, it will be a colossal task requiring a mighty historical protracted people'sstruggle led by patriotic modern minded leaders and tremendous sacrifices by the people, culminating in a people's revolution. But unless we wage such a struggle we will remain condemned to massive poverty and other massive socio-economic evils
For waging this struggle, identifying the 'fearful odds' is the first step, because
without doing that we will be like a blind person groping in the dark.
This article
has aimed at doing that identification.
(Justice
Katju is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. These are his personal
views.)
