Structural corruption

Read case I
Mukesh Ambani is making a 27 storey something (I don’t know what word to be used for such a humongous thing) where some six people would live and am talking of Mumbai.

Read case II
Second, Dharavi is supposed to be the largest slum area in the country, that too in Mumbai.

These two facts cropped up when in one tv program a discussion was going on the situation of social status of India. A social activist identified the two situation and the gap between the two as a resultant of structural corruption. I completely agree with him.. yet find myself in a state of confusion.

First, we should identify whether Ambani saab has the right to have such a …. thing for his family (where his no of servants would outdo no of family members and incoming guests combined). Second, whether government is right in allowing such a …. thing to come to force, by allowing the former to build so.

Answering these two issues, I bet, would give lead us to somewhere we wish to reach… the answers we would like to seek but find helpless in phrasing the question. Since I too don’t know the question, it is better to share my opinion on this issue.

Just because a person has the ability to do something is he or she permissible to do so when the case is about creating a divide unnatural. At the same time the centrality is “land” (on which the huge…. thing is being built) is scarce, especially in Mumabai (my mum friend would identify with it)… I recall the movie “jaane bhi do yaaro” where a journalist asks tarneja – the builder – about his new achievements that push the humans further in their dooms they want to defeat. Tarneja answers, “it is democracy; everyone has the right to succeed, and there’s nothing wrong in it.”

What my say is there should be a cap on a person’s footprint on this earth. To make this world better we talk of reducing our carbon footprint, I doubt how it could be ever achieved in real sense. On the other side there is a glaring reality: underprivileged and middle “salaried” class finds it hard to have a square foot to put their will to fit in. this disparity is definitely corruption of a massive kind but is India realizing it? While I read Muslims (latest bait is Saif) find it difficult to find a flat in particular residential apartments, it seriously questions the lop sided way to approach to residential development. A pricey structure changes the entire economics of a region, which disperses and only grows with time. I mean this disparity.

After so many years of being free, what least could be demanded from the governments is the right for equal opportunity if not equality, that has been lost anyway in the red tape.