Nepotism

  The media and people have been raving and ranting over the last couple of days about nepotism in Bollywood ever since the tragic suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput over the weekend.

  Fingers have been pointed at few film producer and studios who were perhaps responsible, through orchestrated and coordinated actions, in driving Rajput to his sad end.

  But if he has committed suicide because of nepotism then it was not good decision. As there are many actors and actress who does not have any godfather in film industries have done much better like Irfan Khan, Akshay Kumar,Sunil Shetty etc. Even few have also taken out their personal vendetta using the name of Sushant Singh Rajput

   But is nepotism just an exclusive preserve of Bollywood?   My answer to that is no. Nepotism exists in every industries… just the shades and gradations vary. Also, manifestations of nepotism vary.

   Sushant’s story is the story of every ‘person’ – every small town and middle class youngster who wants to make it big in any field and who is alienated, bullied, mocked and sidelined to make way for ‘one of their own’, those who belong to cliques.

  You see nepotism in Bollywood is out there on display for everybody to ascertain. But the real nepotism that has caused so much stagnation, corruption and oppression in our country is far less obvious but just as pervasive.

         “There may be a belief that keeping money inside the family is that the             best way to protect assets and also keep subsequent generation restraint.”

   The young doctor who are unable to start his own clinic so they goes to work for a family practice. The husband and wife doctor team run the show and of course, as soon as their son has passed medical school, he inherits the practice.

   The young lawyer whose parents takes loan for his studies when he finally gets a job at a family-run law firm or Chamber he finds himself he is just doing research work for owner’s son.

   Nepotism has even grab our Judiciary system as few years back Lawyers from the Allahabad and the Lucknow bar associations sent en masse protests to the Union law ministry against these recommendations which has resulted in the latter asking the Intelligence Bureau to do a thorough background check on these lawyers. In 2010, the then Chief Justice of India (CJI) T S Thakur had rejected 11 advocates so that only 19 judges were appointed.

  But there is no social media outrage for them. In fact, there is no union or fraternity to even speak out about this. The employees will never speak of disenfranchisement—they know their limits. While they work hard, they also are also conscious of the truth that regardless of what they excel, will never be able to join the ranks of the families they work for.

  We are currently living in a country where much is made of the fact that our Prime Minister once worked as a tea seller. For better or worse, he is a self-made man. Without a family intrinsically, he's now managed to assemble, for him, the best team possible. Without a place for nepotism, actual accomplishment and loyalty to his beliefs are prevailing. Whether or not one is aligned with what the PM and his team stand for, it can't be refuted that his legacy is more along the lines of Ms. Ranaut rather than, say, Rahul Gandhi.

  In a country with over a billion people, once we hear that biggest companies are family-owned or where two of the three big Khans have "industry" parents, it shouldn't surprise us but it should alarm us. We cannot reach the heights we dream of because of these vocational monarchies that exist across the country, from small shops to big corporations.

  Nepotism cripples all folks, in every profession, at every socio-economic level and no one can refute that.

  In last all I can say what Sushant Singh Rajput did is not the answer for nepotism even though he is gone but the main root of his death is still there and will be there until and unless even person stand and say no to nepotism. 

   All I can say by my blog that god has given us one life to live lets make most of it. So, did Sushant Singh Rajput in his movie Chhichhore had said that “We're so lost in thinking about winning, losing, success, failure ... that we've forgotten about living life ... the most important thing in life is ... life itself ”