Race against Race

When will the race against race get over?

The recently concluded Commonwealth Games would be remembered for various reasons and the reasons could be very different for different set of people.

There would be Indians who initially would have felt let down by the "leaders" and the "games" officials who were busy playing games with the Indian people and the image of the nation. These same bunch of Indians would be breathing a sigh of relief now that the games have concluded without any issues( barring a couple of glitches). The opening and the closing ceremony would definitely have given each Indian a moment to feel that extra pride of being an Indian.

But there would also be a bunch of people( those primarily from the West) for whom it is not over yet. These are the people who were the most vocal critics of games going to a "third world country" like India. What is more disturbing is the fact that this had little to do with the mishandling before the games. The major reason for it was the latent "superiority feeling", or the "racial prejudice" which many of them seem to harbour even in this supposedly "free from race" era.

The Absent Leadership

Maoist insurgency

Inflation

Food Shortage

Railway Accidents

Kashmir

Ayodhya

Un-Common Wealth Games

The list continues to increase.

Issues are plenty, leadership is empty...

Howsoever inappropriate the above sentence may be from the language point of view, it is a sad but brutal truth on the current absence of leadership in India.

Never before have so many problems faced India at the same time and never before the absence of response from the leaders has been so much felt.