HighWay Signs: A Loot India Story!
'If ever there were a people who have
everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who
need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'
From
Priya Jha's impassioned plea to arouse the people:
Dreams of One Country, Amazon: Books 140 pp.
HighWay Signs: 'Grab: Out!'
But here's a
story of
Grabbing Crores that many people will remember. In those days India was going mobile crazy. Even auto-wallahs and housemaids acquired them. Then mobile owners got messages that if they paid a 1000/- rupees they would get
lifetime free incoming calls. Millions of Indians paid a thousand rupees for free incoming. I spent Rs 3000/-. Then, at the end of a year, we got messages saying all incoming would henceforth be free on all mobiles. (Quite possibly the government had earlier decided incoming on all mobiles should be free, just as in the landlines.)
Were those who paid a 1000/- each compensated in any way? Did the government take any action? So many hundred crores were cheated from India's people!
The objective in this Indian rope-trick was the one I described in the last post.
Grab whatever one can get away with!
No country that ignores principles and 'conscience' can build a truly modern, developed nation? The
clear Highway Sign for India's future is
Grabbing: Out!
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