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నేను కవినని నాకు గుర్తుచేసి
ఏదో ఒకటి రాయమని
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చటుక్కున మయమయ్యింది...
ఎవరది నన్ను నిద్ర లేపింది?
అరే ఎవరది నాకల చిదిమేసింది?
ఏమి రాయను మరి ఇప్పుడు నేను?
కలలో ఉండి నిజాన్ని మరువనా?
నిజానికి వచ్చి కలను ఙ్నాపకంగా దాచుకోనా?

“The population is divided into vertical compartments of provinces, tribes, clans, casts, and sub-castes. People generally do not vote out across these compartments or across their tribe, caste, or clan boundaries. The existing system creates the illusion of democracy because we do have election; but we forget that elections are but a tool of democracy an end in themselves. The above system always gives power to small elite group comprises of feudal leaders.”

Though the above statement is written by a dictator (Mr. Musharraf) about Pakistan, the same statement is very true for our country. In the 60 years of independence we have been ruled by a family for 35 years (I may have to add 3 more years for Mr.Singh regime) and by a party for 40+ years which the family represents (I may have to say the party represents the 'Gandhi&Nehru' family).

The perfect example is recent UP election verdict, the lady who has just been elected by UP people is a shameless corrupt. The government at center is run by multiple people with conflicting interests. Recently Mr. Singh has issued a statement saying that rich people in the country should restrain from showing their wealth, which may cause revolution in poor. I have a question to Mr. Singh what about the tax payers, they are paying tax with the hope government will do something to improve the lives of non-privileged people by providing opportunities, but more than half of the tax payers money going into pockets of corrupted politicians and officials. I think he should concentrate on spending the tax payers money properly instead of talking like a communist. What if all the tax payers in the country denies to pay tax because the money which they are paying from their hard earned money is going into the pockets of some crooks.