Watching news on TV or reading the newspapers has become a very monotonous and horrific experience these days.

More often than not, you get to learn about events by which humans are being exploited both physically as well as mentally.

The “Rape”, I am referring to, is the step by step, systematic exploitation that the “Aam Aadmi” (read the middle class) of the Indian society is being subjected to by the establishment over the years.

The spheres in which the Aam Admi faces exploitation can be actually bifurcated into an acronym STEP which stands for Social, Technological, Economic and Political.

Social- From time immemorial, the social fabric of the Indian society has been ruptured by the evils of casteism, untouchability, intolerance and financial disparities, and in a bid to reduce this after independence, our founding fathers created a system of quotas and reservations.

Though, their thinking might have been right at that point of time (the reservations were strictly time bound and could not continue endlessly), the basic purpose of this has been hijacked by vested interests and petty vote bank politics.

The end result being that the disparities have increased, the reservations continue and the classes bereft of reservations feel exploited today.

Technological- “Bharat” i.e. India which once was the cradle of technological advancements in the world unfortunately ceded that space to others in the world. [Read more...]