India is full of contradictions:
- Dangerous criminals like the Mumbai attack terrorist Ajmal Kasab live comfortably in high security prisons, while victims receive no support.
- Many worship goddesses yet doom daughters, with declining sex ratios and crimes against females.
- There are more mobile phones than toilets in India, with basic sanitation needs unmet despite growing mobile access.
- India struggles with both malnutrition and obesity, showing the disparities between urban and rural health issues.
- Luxury cars are common on poor quality roads, while infrastructure remains underdeveloped in many areas.
2. India -A bundle of contradictions
ROYAL TERROR
RELIGIOUS WRONG
FIRST TEXT, TOILET NEXT
FAT BOY SLIM
ITS AN EMERGENCY
NUCLEAR AGE
MERCS AT ROADS’ MERCY
4. The public pays to keep, India’s
most hated man safe, secure, and
well nourished.
India’s jails – a perfect way for
hungry youth, to ensure a lifetime
supply of food, good medical care
and secure life.
All a person needs to do is manage
to get arrested by killing dozens of
innocents.
When Ajmal Kasab entered,
Arthur road jail, a cocoon was
created, within which, the most
hated man could live in comfort.
5. Closed circuit cameras augment his security arrangement,
Security forces keeps constant vigil over his accommodation.
His food is first tasted, then served. We do not want our
royalty to die of poisoning. Do we?
Two years have passed, since that chilling night. Yet he
enjoys a level of security, that the victims of his bullet, can
never dream of.
7. We worship goddesses and doom our daughters.
More than 7 million pilgrims trek to the shrine of deity Vaishno
Devi, seeking her blessings to have a son
In a land, which celebrates Navaratri – in honor of many forms
and strengths of divine feminine, people show double standards
when it comes to their own sisters, wives and daughters.
The access to better education, has only refined the atrocities
towards females.
Sex ratio is declining, and there ‘bride deficiencies’ in many
parts of India.
8. Just like all previous laws against
dowry, rape, violence and
discrimination in general, the laws
against eliminating daughters
before and after birth, have not
managed to make dents in the
mindsets of people.
Hence, not only such crimes
continue, but also escape
punishment and there is little hope.
10. A UN study some months ago estimated around 564 million
mobile users in India, though only 366 million had access to
toilets.
Delhi already has more mobile connections than residents,
with two SIMs per adult soon becoming the norm.
The mobile penetration is fuelled by a growing market hungry
to grab more consumers.
On the other side sanitation is not driven by market forces, it
is a basic amenity the government has to provide.
11. Way back in 1999,the Total Sanitation campaign was
launched to eradicate open defecation by 2010.
The deadline has been reached but the goal remains distant.
A study by Gartner foresees the nation having 660 million
mobile connections shortly.
There is always the excuse of inadequate funds for welfare
schemes, but sanitation is just a basic need.
To sum up, there is more mobile access than toilets in rural
and urban areas!
13. One in every five Indians is not just overweight, but obese,
according to a recent published study by the Lancet.
46 % are malnourished, admits the health ministry, making
the country even worse than the sub-Saharan Africa where
malnourishment teeters around 35%.
79% of India’s children are anaemic, and two million die
before the age of five thanks to malnourishment and thereby
low resistance to infection.
14. Obesity is a an urban phenomenon, stalking through schools
and offices.
Undernourishment is still largely a rural and tribal concern.
Scientists believe Indians are genetically predisposed to
accumulating more fat per kilo of body than other races.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goal seeks to
eliminate malnourishment by 2015.
Given the direction the country is moving in, the dream is
unlikely to be achieved.
16. The family size has shrunk , but the number of homes have
increased
The “Hum do hamare do” slogan has changed to the Chinese
styled outlook, “hum do ek hamara ek ”
People started investing more on property with the surplus
money they have
The recent recession also helped the middle class to own
holiday homes like the super rich
18. The number of accident victims dying from not getting medical
attention in time is very high
Only 8% of accident victims are transported by ambulance to
hospital
At times an ambulance hardly gets through due to the heavy
traffic even if the siren is on , everyone is busy and needless
to say about the condition of roads
In a country where an ambulance does not reach in time but
there is an assurance of the pizza you ordered reaches in half
an hour
21. To make an unnoticed place noticeable the only way
left when none other works-Buy Mercedes in Bulk.
There are plenty of luxuries cars but no place to
drive..
Our ministers, developers whose real work is to
develop the infrastructure of our country are more
interested in making their own money.
22. Rich people are becoming richer and poor are becoming poorer. As
corruption and bluffing is on an extend.
For example-People from Mizoram villages are living a miserable live
with no electricity, no proper shelter, no assurity of getting two time meal.
Whereas on the other hand “The Capital Of Our Country “DELHI” is
always under construction, because the developer of DDA( Delhi
development authority),the employees of PWD are reconstructing the
roads, circles just to get the attention of the ministers when they passes
through....
But they don't even bother about the people who are living in a pathetic
condition.
23. Mind Over Matter
The previous slides took you through the “Incredible
India”…
An India where skewed development throws up
pictures of contrast that bring smile to the lips and a tear
to the eye. For while the joke is on us, the tragedy is also
on us.