My Frustration...

The more I read these newspapers, more I feel frustrated and unhappy about myself and surroundings. I read 7-10 newspapers daily. Thanks to e-papers and iPad apps. Newspapers cause frustration.

For instance -

1.Why do we need to allocate Rs 17,500 cr @ 3% to telecom industry through telecom funds? We, the taxpayers are already enjoying the best of the call rates in the world.

This looks like a plan wherein this money will be siphoned off to earn at least 9-10% risk free interest for 5 years and then may be paid back. I mean why 3%.

2.Why should Sanjay Dutt be pardoned when crime has been proved and Supreme Court has given a verdict? Why Markandey katju should be allowed to speak whatever he wants and why is media covering it?
On one hand Sanjay Dutt says, he won’t ask for a pardon. On the other hand, his friends Amar singh and Jayaprada are submitting a proper application for pardon to the Governor.Why should a Digvijay singh be allowed to say that he (Sanjay Dutt) was a kid(he was 34 in 1993) and hence should be pardoned?

According to Diggy – Sanjay Dutt was a kid at 34 but Rahul Gandhi was ready to become PM at 39 (3 yrs back approx).

3.Why is the entire congress shouting for Rahul Gandhi to become PM since long when we the voters haven’t even voted in 2014?

4.What gives Vijay Mallya the courage to go to Bombay high court questioning the decision of banks to sell shares when he has not been paying up since last 2 years? And this in a country where if a common man doesn’t pay 2 EMIs, his car is taken away.

5.Why should some official sitting in US say that not granting patent to Novartis will hamper investments in India? Novartis is already selling that drug for Rs 15000 which otherwise is being sold by others for 7/8k. And by patenting they want to sell it at upwards of Rs 100,000.

6.Jayalalitha is worried about Tamils in Srilanka. Are all Tamils in Tamilnadu happy and fine?

7. And then we have a poor guy called Kapil Sibal who says that the development in Gujarat happened with central funds. So, what’s wrong in that? Central or state – They anyway are public funds (Tax payer’s money) meant for development.

8.Why should PM not appear before JPC in 2G scam investigation? His minister A Raja has named him and it’s very logical for the PM to be called. And then congress appoints Rashid Alvi to say that PM has nothing to do with 2G. It’s ridiculous. He was PM when it all happened.

9.Why do we elect a MP whose party has not even contested 272 seats (required to form government at centre)?

That’s the reason we have hung parliament. Actually, the voters are hung.

10. A real estate regulator takes more than five years to come. Because there are vested interests.

11. After being a chief minister for more than 10 years, Nitish Kumar wants a special status or backward status for his state. What was he doing all these years?

12.Talking Hinduism is communal and talking Islam is secular.  And in a country which has 70% Hindu population. How long will this go on?

13.Why should we have a Hindu law or a Muslim law? Law is law – same for all. Try breaching it and face it.

14.Why do you want to make set top boxes compulsory? If they are better, people will buy them on their own.

Yes, it’s easy to question everything around and I can probably write a few more pages but the point is that why do we accept so much of mediocrity in the system.

Mediocre are weak, they play safe and get the most conservative results. They keep crying and never act.

Mediocrity creates frustration. Mediocrity needs to be thrown out.