The Indian Middle Class

Everyone talks about the country sitting on gunpowder , waiting to explode any day because of the growing divide between the rich and the poor.
Hello, does anybody even think of the Middle Class and the fact that one day they will wake up to the harsh realities of their existence?
Squeezed like a limp piece of chicken from both sides - the rich on one side whose money gives them everything on a platter . The poor on the other side who walk away with all the benefits because of grants and subsidies.
Paying taxes through their noses, but getting no service. Bad roads and infrastructure, an expensive educational system that does not deliver, reservations that ensure that meritocracy does not stand a chance.
Paying through their noses for bad housing and running pillar to post for subsidised housing. The rich can afford all and the politicians and bureaucrats allot subsidised housing to themselves. The poor only have to squat anywhere and they reap dividends in terms of free housing and free land.
A judicial system that makes you wish you knew an underworld don who would deliver justice through the parallel system. A police force that only services the politicians and one that you would not trust your daughter with.A bureaucracy that is a living nightmare.
Prices that rise , expenses that rise and salaries that don’t keep up.
I think there will be a time that the middle class will also become militant. And stand up for its right.And demand answers on his tax money, incompetent politicians, avaricious bureaucrats. It may even demand to know why everyone shares equal rights as them- when clearly it is the Middle Class that makes this country tick?
Maybe it will already be too late when they do stand up. We might have relinquished our democratic rights already in favour of an oligarchy or even a monarchy!

Security for kids

Obama must be a guy with the highest amount of security. And yet, none of it seems visible and instrusive. At a recent visit to China, hubby darling was in the same hotel as Hilary Clinton and he could not tell.
Of course, lets not get to our politicians in india who have so much visible security - yet they manage to get killed and get mauled with chappals and shoes. They are a story oft repeated.
But I am seeing another class of protected ones. And I feel sorry thinking about the kind of lives they are destined to lead - one without privacy and in full glare of people watching their every move. These are kids (of all ages ) of filmstars, diamond merchants , liquor barons and any other high networth/high profile persons. The bodyguards accompany the kids everywhere. While the kid is in school, they sit outside the school yapping and exchanging notes with other drivers and staff members. They accompany them to gyms , where they stand outside the main area and watch everyone , including young girls sweating it out. The body guards switch on their distress lights and honk maddeningly as they follow the car with the baba log, shooing everyone else off the crowded Mumbai roads.
And I don’t understand how they are protecting their charges? By blaring their horns and creating drama on the roads, they attract attention to the very people they are meant to protect. So a kidnapper does really know whose kid travels in that car. And can decide on the amount of ransom depending on the size and make of the car. Anyone can walk into the gym and shoot those young kids exercising, while their bodyguards try to get close to their bodies.
Perhaps their parents need to watch 24 or take tips from Obama’s security that will really protect their kids.
More importantly, why should I have to pay for their security? I don’t care , would not turn a second time to look at these kids. Then why should my car get bumped off the road and why should someone watch me huffing and panting in the gym?