Who is John Galt?

There is a certain type of response that you often hear when the topic comes up about changing something in India. The listener will often smile, and say something like “Well, this is India” or “It’s too hard to change XYZ” or “It’s too hard to change XYZ quickly.” I wonder whether people are too tolerant about things that need changing. I am reminded of the defeated expression, “Who is John Galt?” (as in – “you can’t fight City Hall”) from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Things here ARE changing, and they are changing quickly….but with more of a collective sense of “we will not accept this anymore,” perhaps it can be accelerated further. Or maybe they would just end up banging their heads against the wall…and so stoicism is a good thing.

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