Does smoking ban helps Indian Health overall? Do villages of India have Public Places or even Cigarettes to smoke?

Ban smoking and alcohol, they are killing in tens of lakhs per annum. Rid world of diseases. Destroy all the deadly microorganisms and keep only the good ones. We can even ban fatty food, they too account for lakhs of deaths per annum, as they cause various heart ailments. We can stop the flowing rivers and make our seas shallow, less people and ship will drown, no tsunamis as well. Make roads on the seabed, ensuring safe travel and avoid the risk of running into the pirates. Stem cell research can be boosted as well, replacing old and worn out human body, tissue by tissue. What a lovely place the world would be.

But what about the increased population? Where will all people live? What will they eat and what will they breathe? Maybe we can go to another planet and do an encore and keep on doing it, till we finish out the entire galaxy. What an idea sirji!

Why do our leaders have to wait for the situation to get worse and then take a step?

Of course, why would they? It is not as flashy as the ban on smoking or drinking and also the policies will not have any immediate results. Which might give no popularity points to a government which might last another 5-year or maybe less!

Population control and educations policy implementation would be like a test match cricket. Whereas people enjoy only one dayers and now even T20s, and this is exactly what is given to us by our politicians.

Any well educated person can understand this and can act when the time comes, still why nothing is happening, why the time is not coming? Where is the disconnect?

The problem here is the lack of a bridge between urban and rural India. Here I will quote the the Idea from Mr. R.K. Mishra (the winner of Lead India contest by the Times Group) which I heard on Radio Indigo FM 91.9, Bangalore. We the educated people of the society, though aware of the steps to be taken, have remained an unorganized community; and that is why the country is taken for a ride by the politicians. The strength and votes of India, lie majorly in the illiterate rural India, whom these politician can organize and make them move in the direction they want. The educated society has no communication with rural India and hence, no say as well on the country’s growth direction.

Somehow we need to bridge this gap. The educated people from urban and rural India should get together, and help move India towards a common dream. India should be a place where both Urban India and Rural India should live with an equal pride; knowing very well that they both depend on each other for the growth of country and themselves as well.