Future Disrupted

We Indians are complete idiots. We lack far-sightedness in almost everything we do.
Like female foeticide and infanticide.
Like BJP and Congress and so many other parties, which refuse everything one party comes up with only for the sake of opposition. Like the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Like the so many projects (usually infrastructural, but many others as well) that are left incomplete, abandoned only because governments changed.
Like the authorities of a college cemented the entire ground before the canteen so that there would be no dust flying about in the wind. Asses. Now dust collects in one huge layer on the cemented ground. And it does fly about. They should have made paths with cemented bricks, planted grass and shrubs in the area, and used the green patches for outdoor tables under umbrellas.
Like the University of Delhi Academic Council, which is arguing over whether or not to pay Rs 3000 stipend to M.Phil. students which the UGC (University Grants Commission) has allowed to encourage students to take up the course since they need teachers in the University. What has happened is that because of this indecision on the part of DU, the M.Phil. might be scrapped completely this academic year. Thus the University gets no more teachers, which was the problem that the whole thing started with in the first place.
Like the lack of scholarships and the likes granted to Ph.D. students in DU. Instead of being the producers of knowledge, we Indians are mere consumers of it. Usually students fly abroad to USA or UK or Australia to do their Ph.D.s, since India lacks in the educational sector vis-a-vis resources and organization. Thus the production of knowledge actually happens outside the country, no matter how bright the students. On top of that, DU has announced that departments cannot take in Ph.D. applications unless they come from students who have cleared the NET (National Eligibilty Test) alongwith a JRF (Junior Research Fellowship). The NET is a farce in itself, smirked at not only by students but also teachers. It is a completely irrelevant exam when it comes to assessing the ability and aptitude of aspiring university teachers. And in any case, how can an exam tell anyone how good a teacher is? The whole thing only promotes the concept behind the Indian educational sector, which is the virtue (or vice) of a sharp memory, not intelligence. What has basically happened is that applying for Ph.D. in DU has become more difficult, so let's just forget the whole idea of the production of knowledge!
And like this new start-up company I was working with last year. They wanted to make money, without caring about their employees. (Just like DU's least prized asset is its students.) So when I take the employees' grievances to the employers, I get to hear how they don't care, how the employees can leave if they want to since they will get new employees very easily in students who are looking to work part-time and are alright with getting peanuts for their work because they are desperate for some amount of money. The good thing is (ha!) that by the time I resigned, they were left only with three employees. Ten people resigned with me. (I was an editor handling a team of 13 writers.) So by the time I left, I hope I did some good to those who left with me, and bad to those employers!