India 2020

Like 99.9% of my fellow countrymen I breed an opinion on every topic in the news, although I am an expert in none.

Web logs must be seen as a great ‘vardan’ to Indians; now we can float our opinions online for free and assume millions are reading and agreeing with us.

Well! I am taking my chance and writing about my thoughts on our country's future. My apologies to our respected ex-president for stealing the title. By the year 2020 India will be on the verge of becoming a developed country. The life, value system, and dynamics in the country will be different than what we see today. A lot of hindrance we encounter in health-care, education, mass-transportation etc. will no longer exist.

In general, citizens will be happier and carefree. [This is partly because they would have judged me as their spiritual leader and would abide by my instructions... just kidding ;) ].

By 2020 the number of news channels in the country will exceed 1500, that’s 36000 TV hours per day. Consequently, every citizen would have appeared on TV at least once. What your dog is having for lunch may be broadcasted live someday. Even the dippers your wife brought for your baby will get in news.

News distribution will be an industry in itself employing more than 100 million.

A new concept of news-messaging will be in use. You will not phone your mom to say “I will be late”, you will say it on live TV on one of the news channels.

The number of regional political parties will be around 10 thousand; the average number of candidates per constituency will be 1200 in most of the northern states.

The cost of elections will be so high [10 times India’s Moon mission budget to be more specific] that we will have them strictly once in a decade.

The slimming and body shaping clinics will be completely out of business. 65% of the population will be staying in cities. Students from smaller towns and villages will come to cities for studies, then find jobs there and get settled for half of their remaining lives. By this way 80% of the citizens would have spent at least 20 years of their lives in cities; over burdened with work and surviving on fast food and aerated drinks. This way every one will be looking like an inflated balloon. In fact this will be the standard size.

India will be hunger free. Surprisingly this will not require the advent of a food revolution or genocide of the starved.

If you notice carefully, non-vegetarianism and stray-cattle have a relation. By 2020 all families, which have less than a meal today, will become strict non-vegetarians and feed on the freely roaming cattle.

India’s power needs will go down. Technological advances will eclipse the existing power hogging devices. The kind of devices and the way we will use them will change completely. Many of the mechanical gadgets will be replaced by the more efficient electronics and nano-technology ones.

No one will use TV sets, we will watch TV on cell phones or wrist watches. People won't use refrigerator as food will be available through just-in-time-delivery services. No one will cook at home nor will they have time for it. Lunch will be had at workplace and dinner in the car/cab on the way back. There will be no time for breakfast.

Most of the population will be using mass transport system as there will be no place to drive or park.

There is a lot more to come on this post. Because I be very specific and use accurate figures to announce my speculation it's taking time to compile the rest of the post. Visit the blog in coming days to know how we would eradicate poverty, solve the garbage disposal, drug abuse, population explosion, global warming and related problems.