Captialism survived and thrived despite criticism

      Socialist economy and inherent corruption in socialism has led to the downfall of many nations. A nation draws its strength not from political system but from the effective political leadership and economic model. History has seen both supremacy and downfall of almost all forms of political systems but we are yet to come across in which any political system with capitalism has failed. In fact in capitalist economy, it's global aspirations of capitalism that demands strong armed forces and thus foreign relations further paves the way for supremacy through economic ties. As a result, population reaps the benefits.  

        Although many may argue that democracy is the best form of political system; agreeable but we have rarely seen a nation growing if political system is democracy but has not opted for capitalist economy.  China is not a democracy but has set off in a right direction and on other hand Soviet union, a communist state, collapsed not because of communism but because of non-capitalist economy. India didn't grow for 40 years after independence despite being a democracy; presently India's economic model continue to be partially socialist and partially capitalist. America, a democracy, continues its strides due to its capitalist economy. The strength of a nation is dictated by economic model and not by political system. Democracies in which effective governance was and is absent are largely those which preferred socialist model and hence have doomed or bound to be doomed in near future.

      Most of the democracies started with socialist economies, thinking it would resolve the governing issues but moving away from socialism has been the trend for many democracies. Socialism only corrupted the political systems; be it democratic, communist , or aristocratic. Although many states continue to call themselves socialist irrespective of economic system state they follow, capitalism have become a core element of many democratic, communist , or authoritarian countries who earlier wanted themselves to be identified with socialist principles. Anyway, capitalism continue to attract criticism but in reality has resolved many governance issues for all political systems.

 

Government must accept that government schools have failed in its objective of community development

     The future of a country largely depends on its children's education. No country can afford to compromise on education front. But India is a country where majority of children enroll in government school and these schools lag behind in inculcating the talent which growing economy of India would demand in coming times. Many political parties talk about inclusive growth but none have plans about how to achieve; some prefer reservation while some acknowledge it and  rest prefer to ignore the problem itself.

     I would say inclusive growth can be achieved only when country's children get access to quality education. Although India is making leaps in economic growth, government school had little role to play in economic growth. Any survey of white collar professionals will reveal that most of them were not educated at government schools. The quality of education at government schools does not prepare students for bright careers, although few made to the main stream. An inclusive growth would remain a distant dream, as it had been for decades, until political parties pay attention to the quality of education at government schools.

    Government schools usually lack teachers, class rooms, or even basic amenities.Government has taken some good initiatives to increase the school enrollment ; providing free meal and books deserve appreciation. These initiatives will definitely reduce the literacy rate. Does this all we need? It would be a marketing gimmick to increase the enrollments  and present a cosy-cosy picture of literacy but underlying problem of quality education at government schools remains unaddressed. Actual parameters to assess the literacy rate should include the impact government schools make on economy.

     Another interesting point is that most of the white collar jobs in India require good hold of English language but medium of instruction at government schools is either local language or Hindi, thus putting the students at disadvantage if students aspire for better career opportunities. This obstruction derails the dreams of millions of students and govt. is still blind to this problem. The government need to bridge the gap between what talent economy require and what is being taught at schools.

    Last but not the least, govt. must accept that government education system has failed in its objective of community development and it need public private partnerships to reform the education sector. Government must outsource  education delivery to private sector and bear the bill. No matter how costly this move would be, investment on children would returns huge fortunes for the country. After all they are future of India.

In 21st century, India can't afford to be led by aimless people.

    Too much noise is being made to project Rahul Gandhi the future Prime Minister of India and like always capable Congress leaders are being ignored by a dynasty in a largest democracy. Every now and then Congressmen speaks of Gandhi family's ambitions for country rather than of their own. And fact of matter is that Gandhi family is very far away from the tunes of India.

   Except Gandhi family members,  no congressmen thinks that he or she can also lead India. Who does not want to climb the ladder of success? Why congressmen are always devoid of PM ambitions and make way for Gandhi family? Why Congressmen are not ambitious about their own political careers? Gandhi family whom congressmen consider the face of India has been leading India aimlessly for decades. In 21st century, India can't afford to be led by aimless people. Even if, just for the moment, we assume that Gandhi family is tuned to ambitions of people, why couldn't family convert those ambitions into reality. Congress has always been vocal about the problems the people of India face but what about the solutions? Well, aimless people never look for solutions!!!

   Rahul Gandhi's political career is hardly less than a decade and he managed to the become Vice President of Congress. On what merit? Does congress party endorse that there is none other better than Rahul Gandhi in Congress? If so, Congress loses its legitimacy to call itself a democratic institution. If Congressmen think Rahul Gandhi is the best politician in Congress, they are ignoring the best bets such as P. Chidambaram, Sachin Piolet, Sashi Tharoor, Prithviraj Chavan, and Antony to name a few.