Thursday, March 10, 2011
Share and share alike ?
As a tax payer my hair stood on end today at todays headlines when I say that the ILLEGAL slum dwellers are now given compensation for our tax paying rupees to build slums back at the site of the fire at Bandra (E). Isn't it a bit much that we are now not only condoning the crime we are also financing it ?
These people are not "victims" , They are people who have KNOWINGLY encroached upon Govt land, then slowly started with a ground structure after KNOWINGLY bribing Govt. Servants. They then built multi-storey structures over a period of time each time making sure the right people were paid off. These structures which are today worth more than a Crore each. (click here to see my earlier article in this regard)
( Now the Govt is talking about compensating only upto 1st floor and no more, lets see GROUND FLOOR "ILLEGAL", FIRST FLOOR "ILLEGAL", SECOND FLOOR "ILLEGAL", THIRD FLOOR "ILLEGAL". Isnt it nice when our Govt plays judge and jury selectively conveniently turning ILLEGAL to LEGAL).
These structures then slowly expanded upwards and sideways, drawing illegal electricity and water connections. They then expanded sideways till the lanes became impassable by normal cars forget about fire engines.
Frankly , we are equally to blame for this tragedy. We avert our eyes, when ou
We keep quiet when schemes rewarding the thieves are announced and propagated both in size from 225 sq ft. to 360 sq ft. and in timelines ( cut off dates have been brought forward time and again). All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing – Edmund Burke.
I am a bit tired of all these mails which ask me to contribute things for the Bandra fire "victims". Except for a couple of people who actually mean well, most of the requests are from people who have never been to Bandra, (E). Never walked the narrow streets strewn with excreta which need to be stepped between. Never had to turn sideways to pass on a lane between two illegal houses since it was too narrow to pass normally.
These bleeding hearts have just passed on mails blindly piling guilt onto others too. Making us feel guilty for all the hard work we put in to basically fight to buy even 1 sq ft of space in the city. These are the self same idiots who have slaved day and night for their well deserved tiny flats ( some a fraction in size of these MULTISTORY SLUMS).
Now let me put these people in perspective with a little story sent in by a reader which seems apt for this situation:
A rich mans daughter just back from a meeting with her friends where they discussed the injustices of the world over Rs. 70/- coffees at Cafe Coffee Day,
Her father a wise old man who has been through this argument many times with many young people looks her deeply in the eyes and says " My dear are you happy with the medical college you are in ?"
The daughter is taken aback since this was the last thing she was expecting to hear, now thinks that her father will bring up things like the car which she drives to college , the equipment he buys for her college , etc says cautiously " I got into it with my hard work, I scored 98%"
Her father continued " If you got 98% then how much did the worst student get ?"
She was totally confused by this time and replied " Raju is the laziest boy never studies and he got only 52%"
Her father says " Now that is hardly fair is it, that you got 98% and he got only 52%. Lets make it fair I will write to your principal to see if he can take 23% from you and give it to that poor boy in your class, that way you both will have 75%."
She screamed " What a stupid idea, I studied hard round the clock to get it while he didn't. He partied when I gave up everything including friends for a whole year, no way would all my sacrifices and pain be worth anything if people followed such stupid principles"
Her father just sat back and smiled while the penny dropped.
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Like the young lady in the story above, before we go out half cocked emptying our pockets in blind rush of sympathy for these so-called victims let us examine if they are victims or the end proponents of a money grabbing , corrupt , rotting system.
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