It is said that, “even when the battle is lost, the learning from it should not be lost”. I was wondering what the learning was from this recent fight over KPME act. At one side we had obstinate political figures exercising their brutal powers in a vulgar display of “how they can teach a lesson” to doctors. On the other side were the private doctors who felt that the fight has to be through strikes and counter-threats. As a proverb goes, when the elephants fight, it is the grass that’s destroyed.
In the fight between system and doctors, it was obvious who the grass was. In a civilized democracy, there should be nothing called strike (or in our lingo – Bundh). This incidence reiterated the fact that we are neither civilized enough nor a mature democracy. At best, we are quasi-civilized mobocracy, wherein only numbers speak. More rustic, mindless and violent the mob, faster is the remedy.…
