Tragedy of Indian Middle Class People

 

Our India is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. I am one of those Indians who lost their job during COVID-19 lockdown. One fine morning a simple question emerged in my mind. WHO AM I? I immediately ran in front of the dressing mirror where I could see from top to bottom of my image. Biologically I am a human being, the most precious species in the world ....... uttering this line of my school time I recovered a lot of confidence. But WHO AM I in my society, in my State, in my Country? There may be a lot of people like me? WHO ARE WE-PEOPLE?

Suddenly I recall that our parents always kept us saying that we are the middle class family. How many are there like us? Google is saying that 60% of Indians are of middle class. Really? I took a long breath with a believe that we are the majority. But why don’t we can make any changes?  Because our Law makers believe in "DIVIDE AND RULE". So WE-PEOPLE are again sub-divided into several categories like General Caste, Scheduled Cast, Scheduled Tribe, Dalits, Other Backward Class, Economically Weaker Section, APL, BPL etc. etc. Therefore in this system Hindu religion (80%) middle class (60%) general caste (30%) people is only about 14%. So we can forget that we are only Indian.

As per World Poverty Clock India is having only 4% population who living in extreme poverty. They are eligible to get food grains at reduced rate. If a person under BPL category from General caste then what advantages Government is providing them for scaling up their economic status? Would they get any reservation in school, colleges or universities? Would they get any advantage to get a Government job? The list of questions may be so long but nobody is interested to take care of 4% voters (most of them not having any voter card).

We feel ourselves a millionaire while watching the news that India became the 5^th economic country in the world after leaving behind United Kingdom. Our patriotic mind blew a big whistle for our great leaders who economically defeated the British. We do not want to use our google power to know about the term GDP, Per Capita Income etc.  We do not want to know that India is holding 147^th rank in terms of Per Capita GDP income.

We are driven by the news channels and news papers. We can frisk more than the channel anchor on the issue of communalism. We can spare our good times by debating on Ram Janmabhumi/ Babri Masjid. But we desperately held none other but our fate responsible for the crisis of our primary needs like food, healthcare, education, shelter and livelihood. We do not want to know our fundamental rights. We all are going to be smart every day. Smart phones became an integral part of our life. But we use most of the daily data limit for watching facebook, instagram, ticktok, youtube etc. It is internationally accepted that the credit goes to WE-PEOPLE of India for making porn sites a billionaire industry. “Low-battery” and “Link-down” – these two words became the scariest in our life than any other. Stuck with a hanged mobile is nothing worse than the chariot of Karna stuck in the mud during Mahabharat battle.

We can stay cool in the event of loss of a neighbour but nobody can control from breaking the ice for any misery with our super-heroes. We are always in search of a short-cut for making money easily. So CHIT-FUND business is growing up day by day at the wealth of WE-PEOPLE. We always dream for a better living with a flat and a car. At the same time we are lazy to put extra effort to achieve the same. We feel scared to take risk of a business. But do not take our steps back to put all of our savings in CHIT-FUND at the influence of others. We are blind to see that no politicians or eminent businessman have never ever been suffered due to CHIT-FUND scams. Only fund of WE-PEOPLE are exhausted. No Government, court, law or investigation agency in India ever succeed to recover the cheated amount. In India the concept is “once the money is in your pocket, it’s yours”. In the context of India, mostly the eastern states like West Bengal is badly affected by CHIT-FUNDs where educated people left the state due to lack of opportunities and rest of the people do not find any to consult before investment. They are easily could be trapped. It could be observed that most of the biggest CHIT-FUND agencies under scam are from West Bengal and the state became the heaven of fraud CHIT-FUND agencies.

After a lot of brain-storm and wasting a lot of sweat I discovered that why elders are kept on saying that born in a middle class general caste in India is nothing but a sin. Neither they will get opportunity to become upper class nor will they become so desperate like so called lower class. The middle class will always live in frustration.