End Game.

Has anyone else sensed that the social contract in India seems to be breaking down? That the citizens no longer have faith in the institutions of the Government, and they very well may not have had faith for a while now, but are now rather blasé in taking matters into their own hand, collectively and singularly? That the Government can only stand by as a mute witness to the break-down of civil society? That the Government, politicians, beaureaucrats and all, are hoarding in anticipation of a fast approaching day of implosion? I'd hesitate to call it anarchy, more like a recidivist version of Darwinism.

It's not that the Government cannot intervene, it's that they no longer know how to intervene.

~o~o~x~o~o~

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

~ William Butler Yeats. "The Second Coming"