who am I- part 2

Being an ordinary human all of us desire a lot and dream a lot to attain all the material requisites of well being to use Alfred Marshall words.Excepting the corrupt politicians,  avaracious bankers, corporate frauds, unscrupulous bureaucrats, unethical teachers and business men and many other tribes of this kind who want to be rich by hook or crook, the majority of the people are basically good and honest and want to lead a decent life amidst all chaos and complexity of life.invariably many belonging to this set have problems to confront day in and day out.

The tragedy of life is that there's a hidden or many times open fight or subtle confrontation between these two classes, the most corrupt and least good on the one hand and the rest of population living in truth and honesty, but struggling in their minimum materialistic pursuit, or academic goals or climbing their administrative ladders..in this broad context only the question who am I has a reevance .The life of a nation as also the life of an individual revolves around the opposing forces  operating between the good and the bad..

Having been a student of Economics for more than five  decades  I feel that many a time government and the criminalized segment of population in different walks of life  become problems as the  former develops sectional bias and the latter get soaked  in sensual and materialistic Ife with a royal culture of thousands cars, driven by unbridled greed, vaulting ambition  to capture power, enjoy higher position, not by ethical means .This is the classic case of Gresham's Law, a la the Bad drives Good from circulation.

Politics becomes a business,  a trading activity, a lucrative family concern and  money making madness  becomes a norm there.Business becomes a close ally of power seeking and corrupt politicians and this Nexus, the collusive oligopoly between them is on the rise and that explains the corporate frauds  not paying bank loans , evading taxes  and the government writing off huge amount of loans the wilful defaulters...This crony capitalism has done more havoc ...The ego centric journey of the microscopic minority always uttering I and My as vedic words and also  living in a world of illusions and delusion sans ethics and accountability, is the Bane of the society..

The economic governance of the country thus falls on the shoulder of the ordinary individuals and middle class and they swallow all the regressive and oppressive taxes..

The question who am I, is deliberated in a different sense and one has to ask oneself where he belongs to.If the affluent do not and will not contribute more in the form of taxes and the ordinary poor have  to shell out via the indirect tax of GST and the rise in the collection is seen as a positive sign of economy growing and the federal government plays politics in managing the devolution of that amount between the states and also distribution of the share in the most vindictive way,  it is time we paid more attention to the ethical and moral side of the so called regulators  not selectively with all dirty and filthy politics built into it.

The criminalized segment of the community will never rest content with a mountain of wealth that they have at a point of time  but  always on the  wheels to augment it , protect it by all possible means including the switch over to a political asylum where the law will hardly touch them.

This does not auger well for democracy.Those insane persons shedding crocodile years on the excesses of emergency as the dark spots must do introspection in themselves and grasp into the molecules of their brain to what extent the constitution and democracy have been molested and raped beyond repair and recognition.Let everyone ask who am I?