The time for middle class has arrived...

Just saw the flash mob dance here. Was static! well can these things also happen in India? young good looking handsome guys and beautiful girls dancing on CST station, the same station which is the synonymous of the "aam aadmi" congress party claims to be whose true representative. This was nice dance indeed but it gave me something to think about. Now bastion of the lower middle classes has been demolished with this young middle class India. Whoa! they made the apathetic CST crowd to stop, cheer and enjoy! let me cut it short; they shook them from their one dimensional world where the metro stations are places where being emotive is 'foolish'.

I remember once I watched a movie where the villein neta yelled on one junior neta , "educated people will not vote and illiterate I can manage".. This has been a sad story for the India a giant democracy as a whole. Educated people considered politics a whim while the poor were too feeble to rise above caste and creed. Corrupt and thieves entered in the parliament and vidhansabhas, making a mockery of the system, the height was achieved when during the fodder scam in Lalu era; Vidhan Sabha passed a "privileged motion" against the CBI regional director for showing "disrespect". He was forced to apologize for this "blasphemy".

So poor were electing those who never deserved it, they at least took their pie of the democracy of India. They; no matter how ill equipped were, made all important decisions about who is going to rule, not only on them but on whole India. Where lies the rich? Nehruvean policies ensured we were to remain and live in the box. So those who were princely before independence were perhaps only one who can enjoy the perks of rich. They actively shared the dais with the power centers, poors were electing them and Rich were funding them while "they" were unaccountable to anyone!

Perhaps the only stratum which do not have any say in the governance is the middle class. neither do they vote nor they have resources to establish the connection with the elites. Disconnected, isolated and someone who were never given a damn! (look at the Indian economic policies, government has always been out there to appease the mass rural voters even if their demands are unjustifiable while neglecting the urban India's just demands).

Sadly this has been a unfortunate tale of India until 1991, when almost a bankrupt India has to initiate the reforms under then prime minister P.V. Narsimha Rao, when India was substantially freed from the shackles of incompetent government; the fruit soon started to show up, one visible area where we can see huge turn around is our "boodhoo box" television, from a flickering BPL, Indians now switched to Sony and LG; IT boomed like anything; even in the recession days, all IT majors posted the profits in "twenties" percentage points, employing this common middle class, raising the purchasing power and connecting them to the global world. pharmaceuticals and automobiles, you name it, India had an growth story after 2000s which it is ready to tell to everyone in the world, India managed to bring up millions of Indians from the trap of poverty and transformed them to the 'middle class' even in recession and corruption hit India is marching ahead at 7% growth rate; termed as miracle economy by World bank standards.

But you can't change the whole structure without touching it's root. There now exists a middle class Indian who can not only take care of their basic needs but also can afford the luxury jeans, but they are still disconnected from their democratic government. This is the reason why Anna Hazare created such a mass appeal among this brand of Indian youth, it was not Anna Hazare; it was this India which created the ruckus inside the governmental circles. There is a strong feeling in this young India about how stuff works in India; this young India is aggravated from the fact that our politicians shamelessly describe their acts as 'opposition ki chaal' and 'an action against their particular caste' (remember Karunanidhi said A Raja is targeted for being a dalit! ) The number of this middle class is increasing with every day passed; so is their frustration with the hypersensitive 24X7 media.

Let's go back to where I've started, this young, middle class, frustrated, zealous, forward-thinkinng, avant-garde, innovative & painstaking India is unfolding it's wings, it wants accountability which whole government has lagged since independence, the questions like "are they destined to rule on us?" are very frequent in Indian democracy. Typically neglected middle class is now stacking the claim to be the India's new signature. How national geographic has also started visiting the infosys campus apaer from there as usual, "interview with the snake charmers".

The flash dance at the CST is not just another ordinary event, or a good dance; this young India has made his presence felt in the bastion of the "aam aadmi" This India is a ever rising power, this is the India which will one day snatch the titles of "real India" from the starving rural India. When this will happen, dynamics of the country would change; it has the potential to trounce a set of whole political class; someone has to rewrite "how stuff works" about India.

With putting my stakes on the line; I predict a huge iceberg is destined to hit the power centers all across India soon! watch out baba's and madams...