If the Indian government works on a 'mission mode', then civil society too is never far behind with its 'campaign mode' of ushering in social change. How these missions and campaigns plan to achieve their desired change is left to conjecture and imagined realities. What is important is not the change sought but its (acc)claim. Much of this bandwagon bonhomie is to make 'change' a currency that can freely circulate in the market of development. It is a change that you can brandish as a badge to assuage one's guilty-ridden existence. Who cares? It's all so self-seeking and self-perpetuating that it has little to do with people's lives. No kidding, we are here to scramble for pieces of the proverbial pie. Change has become a system of spoils- you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours. What makes this system of spoils so rotten is the moralising and self-righteousness associated with it. The entire 'holier than thou' development business is sickening. Yes, PINK got it right when she said "You make me sick".
