September 18,
2001
THE MERITORIOUS ONES
The meritorious in India are those who have
time, facilities, resources, and get timely help and right guidance to
apportion and adjust their time, space, material and energy. They thus are in a position to prepare
properly and work well to reach their goals comfortably even before time. But, it is
rather unfair and unjust to consider them to be intelligent, talented and
capable persons. It is wrong even to
feel that they are the industrious ones who could achieve results through their
sincere and hard work. This
wrong attitude and unfair conclusion, sadly is the main cause of our
Problems. We are now burdened with these so called meritorious ones, who are
incapable and unwilling men and women, in sensitive important and crucial
positions of responsibility and power. Worser is the situation,
when the less meritorious and sometimes the crooked ones amongst them, as it
frequently or most of the time happens, land up in our Educational
Institutions.
Most of the 'meritorious ones' know nothing
about themselves, their capacities and capabilities, their subjects or about
their students. As they themselves had
learnt very little or understood
nothing real in life, they could hardly explain relate or orient anything
except reproduce whatever they have read in the manner in which they have
understood the texts. Reading or mugging up or speaking being not
learning, they are themselves at a loss to relate what they have learnt to the
People or the Students in the Class or their Future, and so they leave all
others around them in a much helpless state.
The Problem thus gets compounded when some amongst them take over the
Responsibility of producing books, text books, journals, magazines or even
simple writings. All they do is cut
paste and publish. Sometimes they end
up in misleading the students, and thus put them into never ending problems.
The 'most meritorious' amongst the
'meritorious' students generally enter into the Services under the Govt, or
Public Services offered by the private sector. Of course the
crooks and the helpless amongst them go to the politics or get into or sucked
in the real 'Private Services' by the 'Private Individuals' Those in the Services of the Govt and in the
Public Services of the private sector, start their work as Assistants or
Trainees, then take over routine marketing or production or
administration. Slowly they move into
executive functions, policy formulation and planning.
The Results of the work and the
contributions of all the 'most meritorious' and the 'meritorious' ones, and the
goals and targets achieved by them are there for us to see all around, after so many decades of Independence and 'democratic'
Rule and Governance. And most of us
silently continue to suffer from the tyranny of ignorance, criminality of the
incompetent, and corruption by the incapable but 'most meritorious' and the
'meritorious' elite products of our elite families and elite Schools Colleges
and Universities. The failures and mess
created by the highly 'meritorious' ones coming through the All India
Competitions, rounded up by high level Personality Tests, Interviews etc taken
by the top Executives and senior Administrators from amongst the 'always meritorious'
sections of the Society manning the controls of the Government is colossal, and
is drowning us as a People in debt, shortages, misery, poverty and sicknesses,
even though there are many who vertually float in money liquor and drugs
without ever working or even moving their little finger.
If the records of the 'best, highly
meritorious, always meritorious, most meritorious and the meritorious' are all
the Misseries of the People and Failures of the Govts, we can easily imagine
the damages being caused by the 'next best meritorious' ones who could not get
into the Govt and Public Services, and are eagerly picked up by our Colleges
and Universities. Yes, that is really
sad and unfortunate for the Academics, and we will have to pay for their
failures during the generations to come!
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Thankfully adopted from the
Telugu Weekly News Paper, JANAMITRA published
by P Vishnumurthy from Yanam - 533 464 a part of the Union
Territory of Pondichery in Andhra Pradesh Coast.
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