Bihar, India and hope
Published by Yazad Jal December 31st, 2003 in India, Anarcho CapitalismShubhrangshu Roy ends the year with some hope seen through Bihari eyes.
Nothing good that’s happened to us ever happened because our government planned it that way. Everything that’s happening is despite our government being there. And it’s happening because the nation’s freed itself from the fear of living under siege, brought about by years of state-generated shortages. … In 10 years flat we have graduated from being on the waiting list to getting a phone on demand, because your phonewallah believed that government rules were meant to be flouted. Call centres are mushrooming everywhere because a generation brought up on Employment News has suddenly given way to an entirely new generation that surfs the Net.I call this a result of organised chaos. Where official apathy to development leads the nation to such a pass that its citizens first create their own aspirations and then fuel demand for the good things of life. Which is why India ’s much-maligned manufacturing sector has lined up Rs 50,000 crore in fresh investments for the next couple of years or so. In a real sense, it’s the withering away of the state. It’s the withering away of command performances that counts. Which is leading babuas out of the quagmire of Bihar , in search of a better tomorrow. Why Bihar ? Because if the Bihari sees hope in India , you know that India has arrived.
It’s good to see a brief sprouting of spontaneous order and anarcho-capitalism from mainstream journalists.
Also instead of simply ignoring or rubbishing Bihar, I prefer to see it as a microcosm of India. A friend (incidentally a Bihari and a journalist) once told me that India is viewed in the West in the same way as Bihar is viewed in India.
It’s true that Bihar is the weakest link in India’s development chain. Instead of looking at government to help, I’d look at the ordinary enterprising Biharis roughing it out in Bombay and Calcutta. And support and encourage them wherever they may be. It is when Biharis are successful, both in and out of Bihar that one would see a renaissance in Bihar.
bihar india and hope
at least we in bihar donot need to pity others and laugh at the misfortunate indianbeings-the more fortunate humanbeing whose children have been brainwashesed to beleive everymove unindian seen on the television is the real world. Did you realise the bihari women are still one of the few who cover themselves properly.Is india- me- bhohut- taraki-mordennisation-hogaiha- every 16 year child in the non-bihari city says the word cool twice in every sentence,star ,zee and ndtv proudly show the latest models in chadiis and the latest bumhugging popdances by bollywood, have coffee-joints in every corner .