Zen and the art of driving

India is getting to be a Nation of drivers.
Driving in all senses is being in control, not just your self but to an extent in control of others too.
Being denied control of one self, it is an obvious reason why Indians in hordes are picking up the skill.
First it was nature that was in control of all human kind, and then came religion, kings and then governments.
Something that guarantees freedom in the future is technology. But then one needs skills to master it, Or you become a slave of the machines, as we have, now become slaves of democracy and governments supposedly chosen by us, which were at some point perceived as emancipators.

Driving for Indians is freedom and being in control of the machine.
Indian government through their various pro poor schemes, like PMRY- Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Yojna and Kisan credit cards, provide cheap and subsidized loans to purchase auto rickshaws and tractors. And time to time they waive of the loans too, this time it has been a whooping Rs. 75000 crores
Direct beneficiary to all this money are obviously, the auto and tractor companies. But somehow, the poor loanee feels that he is actually the beneficiary.
Truth is perception.
The important thing is that he can drive himself and a few more people to their required destination.
See places and know more about machines. He is getting ready for tomorrow.

But, then where does one drive? Where are the roads?
If you have good roads, guess one can see ahead a few hundred yards, and plan maneuvers.
In my district, Vaishali, a 16 km stretch takes a full hour, and while driving all I can look ahead to, is the bonnet of my car. I just can’t go beyond it. One pot hole and the other.
Well that is the problem. If you can’t have good roads, you can’t look ahead, you can’t anticipate, you can’t plan, you are at the mercy of all eventualities in life.
If I do not have a basic infrastructure, how do I plan, all day, I just run around to manage electricity, fuel, banking and basic fundamental services which are being denied by a failed state.

Gujarat and Maharashtra are shouting at the top of their voices that, they pay maximum taxes and their money is being spent in useless places like Bihar. They are absolutely right.
Modi Bapu, I will tell you a secret that even Newton could not discover.
It was the Hen before the egg.
Invest in Bihar, give them good roads, and all the drivers will see all the way to Gujarat. Then Gujarat will not have to drive anymore, as Bihar will do so, and all Gujju bhai’s can see further, till US of A. and some Americans will go to the moon and some to Afghanistan. Gujarat will rule the world, by just building the roads in Bihar.
But then you like Thackeray get bothered about Bihari’s building roads in your state and can’t see beyond the obvious.