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INDIA - A Painful Transition

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Many feel that our country is in the throes of a painful transition. Every nation, they say, in its ascent towards prosperity and supremacy, has had to tread this path. Such a supposition, however flawed, seems to be the only recourse of a beleaguered population sapped dry by a system that is getting more corrupt and more reckless by the day. I am one among the many who find some succor in clinging to that view, which is why I choose to look the other way whenever the morning paper reveals another scam of gargantuan proportions, although it makes me cringe in despair. It is undeniably very hard to endure, knowing that we have no option other than to stand and watch the termites eat through the woodwork, and drag the feet of a nation raring to surge forward, repeatedly backward. I was overcome by such poignant feelings as I sat watching one of the many talk shows that have become the life-blood of news channels on TV. The speakers were familiar faces, stalwarts of social and political