Even after the devastation of health and education services during Covid 19 period no one is interested in improving these two sectors and there is no popular demand for this either. No demand from masses or no effort from the govt side is in sight.
Public discourse in India has everything from earth to space but it misses the most important questions of daily needs. Any public discourse which neglects the unfulfilled needs of Indians as dignified human beings is just a farce. If we don't have this basic understanding our all knowledge and degrees are just bogus.
We generally take great enthusiasm in discussing current topics of politics either from government's point of view or from opposition's point of view but we seldom take up our own issues at the centerstage of public discourse from our own point of view. Free access to quality education upto secondary level for all and free primary health care of quality type are such issues. Similarly the larger issues of inequality of opportunity and of outcome in all walks of life are always there. One of the poorest qualities of public services is always a very concerning issue. But such issues despite issues of daily life which decide our final standing in our social economic life never catch attention of general public. In India most of the middle , lower middle and lower class take inequality , discrimination and poor quality public services for granted. They never think that these are the issues which must be talked about extensively at all public platforms. They never think that political parties whom we support are duty bound to address these issues in our favour. And this ignorance of middle to lower classes is used by upper middle and upper class to fulfill their own aspirations which are deeply rooted in money and political power. By taking advantage of this ignorance Indian upper and upper middle class push middle to lower classes in the virtual world of imaginary history which is neither myth, nor history but just post-thruth. By doing so the powerful classes ensure their safe berth for their next generation also.
This is the state of affairs which is not going to change in near future as Indian politics is neither a politics of ideological struggle nor a poltics of reality. Rather Indian politics is just a politics of numerocracy where every political combination is intersted in securing majority of seats and nothing else. Till this aim is being achieved by resorting to post truth there is no need for political combinations to take pain for those real issues. And remember that the consumers of post truth are none other than general public . So it's the genral public of middle to lower class which is a deciding factor what sort of political establishments we will continue to have.