INDIA SHINING AND SINKING

There is a higher court than
courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all
other courts.’- Mahatma Gandhi India is under siege, both from within and
without. Our governance is riddled with the disease of corruption and our
politicians work for self-advancement rather than the welfare of the nation.
Our economic health is fragile, crime and corruption have become bywords of
life, immorality and unethicality are rampant in every aspect of societal
living. Add to this neighbors such as Pakistan and China, who looking for the
merest crack through which to breach our defenses and we have a country that
is teetering on the verge of a cataclysmic collapse. Yet, the greater part of
the Indian electorate remains ignorant about these evils and it is in this
ignoble situation that we are heading into elections, about to vote into
power leaders who can either make or break us and so, in India Shining and
Sinking, patriot, thinker and social commentator S.K. Shah takes on the
daunting task of informing the Indian citizen about the most crucial
developmental and societal challenges we face today. Through essays on a
diverse range of subjects-ranging from politics and governance to poverty,
crime and morality-Shah sounds a clarion call of awareness for the masses.
Passionately argued, this timely book brings to the fore all that we are
plagued by today and all that we must struggle to overcome to become a true
and functional democracy.