Achche din AAGAYE KYA?
23 Jul 2025 16:22:37
Happy days- good days, what?
You can make Mogambo happy easily and he will say ‘Mogambo khush hua’.
But, a big butt-‘Hindustan ke logon ko khush karna mushkil he nahi, namumkin hai’.
Prime Minister Modi, during his campaign in 2014 said ‘Abb Achche din anaey wale hain’ (good days are going to come). He was saying that things will change for better if you vote BJP to power. But Hindustani ‘sirf Baal ki khaal nahin nikaltey, who baal ke saath khaal bhi nikaal latey hain!’
I am reminded of the song ILU ILU KYA HAI, yeh ILU ILU. Lyrics are very expressive and catchy.
इलू इलू, इलू इलू, इलू इलू, इलू इलू
यह इलू इलू क्या है यह इलू इलू
जब बाग में कोई फूल खिला तो
भावरे ने कहा इलू इलू, इलू इलू
परबत पे छाई काली घटा
तो बोली हवा इलू इलू, इलू इलू
जब कोई अच्छा लगता है
बड़ा प्यारा प्यारा लगता है
तो दिल करता है इलू इलू, इलू इलू
यह इलू इलू क्या है, यह इलू इलू
इलू का मतलब आई एल यू , आई एल यू
इलू का मतलब आई एल यू , आई एल यू
आई लव यू, इलू इलू
Similarly in 1980 Thumbs up came with a slogan ‘Happy days are here again, Thumbs up’.
These are expressions which one can never take literally. How can happy days come if you have a bottle of thumbs up? If there are dark clouds on the mountain top, why will you say ‘I love you’?
Then there are ‘Good day’ biscuits of Britannia, and I can have a full pack and say ‘my day is not good’!
I don’t understand, what is the definition of ‘good days’ as far as Indians are concerned? Good days and happy days are similar expressions. Happiness is also a state of mind and that is different for different people. What is our interpretation of achche din, which Mr. Modi mentioned?
Indians are roughly divided in five big blobs- The rich class, the middle class, the upper middle class, lower middle class and the poor guys.
Indians especially the top four classes can never be happy. When they are invited for a dinner party, they will have free drinks till they are sozzled, have food filling themselves up to the limit when they may puke and fart but as they walk out and are not in the hearing or listening distance of the host they will wink at each other and will say ‘Yaar Mazza nahi ayaa- We had only three flavors of ice cream’ or some stupid thing like ‘yaar paan ka intezaam to karna thaa na’
I want to ask ‘Arey bachey ki jaan loge kya?’
A lot has happened and a lot is happening
So much has happened in the last eight years, which is visible to a guy even suffering from cataract. But we the people of India are still looking for some extra ice cream, a triple Sunday perhaps, with three extra scoops of strawberry. And a chocolate fudge free.
200 crore plus Covid vaccines administered across the country, beautiful highways are being built, Dhan Yojana crosses 472 million accounts, Start up boom, Defense exports as never before, Unleashing India's Entrepreneurial Energy, India now the fifth largest economy, with FOREX reserve of $572 billion, Digital India is a global success story and people even at the bottom of the pyramid use internet for banking, which has brought great ease of work and transparency. More than ten crore toilets have been built for rural areas.
Railway stations, airports of world class standard are being built. In the last 8 years, 72 airports have been constructed compared to 70 in the 70 years before that, meaning that the number of airports has doubled in the country. The Indian Railways is likely to deliver 58 super critical as well as 68 critical projects worth more than Rs.1,15,000 crore in the next few years.
80 crore poor and marginalized people were given monthly rations to mitigate pandemic impact. Abrogation of Article 370 and construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya are two major achievements which seemed to have no solution.
International Yoga day has been a great success, India’s esteem has gone up many fold across the world. India now holds the Presidency of the G20 from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023.
The goods and services tax (GST) introduced by the Modi government was India’s biggest ever tax reform in the 70 years since independence, replacing more than a dozen federal and state levies.Officials believe it brought millions of businesses into the tax net, boosting government revenues.
Several schemes have been launched to make our nation great. PM Gati Shakti - National Master Plan for Multi-modal Connectivity, essentially a digital platform to bring 16 Ministries including Railways and Roadways together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects. The multi-modal connectivity will provide integrated and seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods and services from one mode of transport to another. It will facilitate the last mile connectivity of infrastructure and also reduce travel time for people.
Outstanding efforts by the government towards electrification, India has witnessed a massive transformation over the last decade with the grid now present everywhere. Enhancing these efforts with actions that can enable supply of quality electricity to the last mile is an ongoing task.
India's LED lighting market grew 130-fold within five years, skyrocketing from annual sales of 5 million bulbs per year in 2014 to about 670 million in 2018. This resulted in 30 terawatt hours (TWh) of annual energy savings.
Are these not good times?
Did our Indian brethren expect milk flowing in our rivers or golden birds on every tree? Did we expect all our problems disappear in the last eight years?
People are so very sarcastic when they say ’Achche din kahan Gaye?’
I want to respond in an equally sarcastic way and say ‘Oh you thought Haridwar will become Honolulu, Delhi will become Dubai, Mumbai will be our Madrid and Pune our Paris- Yaar Mazaa nahi aya!
‘Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.’ - Erich Fromm
You can make Mogambo happy easily and he will say ‘Mogambo khush hua’.
But, a big butt-‘Hindustan ke logon ko khush karna mushkil he nahi, namumkin hai’.
Prime Minister Modi, during his campaign in 2014 said ‘Abb Achche din anaey wale hain’ (good days are going to come). He was saying that things will change for better if you vote BJP to power. But Hindustani ‘sirf Baal ki khaal nahin nikaltey, who baal ke saath khaal bhi nikaal latey hain!’
I am reminded of the song ILU ILU KYA HAI, yeh ILU ILU. Lyrics are very expressive and catchy.
इलू इलू, इलू इलू, इलू इलू, इलू इलू
यह इलू इलू क्या है यह इलू इलू
जब बाग में कोई फूल खिला तो
भावरे ने कहा इलू इलू, इलू इलू
परबत पे छाई काली घटा
तो बोली हवा इलू इलू, इलू इलू
जब कोई अच्छा लगता है
बड़ा प्यारा प्यारा लगता है
तो दिल करता है इलू इलू, इलू इलू
यह इलू इलू क्या है, यह इलू इलू
इलू का मतलब आई एल यू , आई एल यू
इलू का मतलब आई एल यू , आई एल यू
आई लव यू, इलू इलू
Similarly in 1980 Thumbs up came with a slogan ‘Happy days are here again, Thumbs up’.
These are expressions which one can never take literally. How can happy days come if you have a bottle of thumbs up? If there are dark clouds on the mountain top, why will you say ‘I love you’?
Then there are ‘Good day’ biscuits of Britannia, and I can have a full pack and say ‘my day is not good’!
I don’t understand, what is the definition of ‘good days’ as far as Indians are concerned? Good days and happy days are similar expressions. Happiness is also a state of mind and that is different for different people. What is our interpretation of achche din, which Mr. Modi mentioned?
Indians are roughly divided in five big blobs- The rich class, the middle class, the upper middle class, lower middle class and the poor guys.
Indians especially the top four classes can never be happy. When they are invited for a dinner party, they will have free drinks till they are sozzled, have food filling themselves up to the limit when they may puke and fart but as they walk out and are not in the hearing or listening distance of the host they will wink at each other and will say ‘Yaar Mazza nahi ayaa- We had only three flavors of ice cream’ or some stupid thing like ‘yaar paan ka intezaam to karna thaa na’
I want to ask ‘Arey bachey ki jaan loge kya?’
A lot has happened and a lot is happening
So much has happened in the last eight years, which is visible to a guy even suffering from cataract. But we the people of India are still looking for some extra ice cream, a triple Sunday perhaps, with three extra scoops of strawberry. And a chocolate fudge free.
200 crore plus Covid vaccines administered across the country, beautiful highways are being built, Dhan Yojana crosses 472 million accounts, Start up boom, Defense exports as never before, Unleashing India's Entrepreneurial Energy, India now the fifth largest economy, with FOREX reserve of $572 billion, Digital India is a global success story and people even at the bottom of the pyramid use internet for banking, which has brought great ease of work and transparency. More than ten crore toilets have been built for rural areas.
Railway stations, airports of world class standard are being built. In the last 8 years, 72 airports have been constructed compared to 70 in the 70 years before that, meaning that the number of airports has doubled in the country. The Indian Railways is likely to deliver 58 super critical as well as 68 critical projects worth more than Rs.1,15,000 crore in the next few years.
80 crore poor and marginalized people were given monthly rations to mitigate pandemic impact. Abrogation of Article 370 and construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya are two major achievements which seemed to have no solution.
International Yoga day has been a great success, India’s esteem has gone up many fold across the world. India now holds the Presidency of the G20 from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023.
The goods and services tax (GST) introduced by the Modi government was India’s biggest ever tax reform in the 70 years since independence, replacing more than a dozen federal and state levies.Officials believe it brought millions of businesses into the tax net, boosting government revenues.
Several schemes have been launched to make our nation great. PM Gati Shakti - National Master Plan for Multi-modal Connectivity, essentially a digital platform to bring 16 Ministries including Railways and Roadways together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects. The multi-modal connectivity will provide integrated and seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods and services from one mode of transport to another. It will facilitate the last mile connectivity of infrastructure and also reduce travel time for people.
Outstanding efforts by the government towards electrification, India has witnessed a massive transformation over the last decade with the grid now present everywhere. Enhancing these efforts with actions that can enable supply of quality electricity to the last mile is an ongoing task.
India's LED lighting market grew 130-fold within five years, skyrocketing from annual sales of 5 million bulbs per year in 2014 to about 670 million in 2018. This resulted in 30 terawatt hours (TWh) of annual energy savings.
Are these not good times?
Did our Indian brethren expect milk flowing in our rivers or golden birds on every tree? Did we expect all our problems disappear in the last eight years?
People are so very sarcastic when they say ’Achche din kahan Gaye?’
I want to respond in an equally sarcastic way and say ‘Oh you thought Haridwar will become Honolulu, Delhi will become Dubai, Mumbai will be our Madrid and Pune our Paris- Yaar Mazaa nahi aya!
‘Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.’ - Erich Fromm