The greatest apathy of our great country lies not in the politicians but in the common man. While commentators in the news, publications write editorial of praises of a new India taking the bureaucracy to task and holding them to their promises. There is no mention of the silent masses, the people whose emotional tolerance has receded into the darkness. People who are neither bothered or moved by acts of inhumanity. These are people who seem to have a lack of national pride or care. They are people who spit on streets, pee on the walls who treat the country as a dustbin and who do it with complete ignorance.
I see them everyday on the streets, in social circles people who still act liberal while slowly feeding their regressive vices through acts of total intolerance. Who on one hand speak about reform and a lack of initiative from the political class while themselves act exactly like those politicians in their sphere of influence. Then why blame anyone, when your own moral character is hypocritical.
Indian was built on the platform of social, secular, republic, a country that believed in democracy and the power of the people. But it is precisely those people that have led to the downfall of the Indian social culture. Look at it this way, before the British came to colonize India, who were we, we did not have our identities as Indians, we were part of colonial regimes of the Marathas, Cholas or the more prominent Mughal Empire. The British colonisation of the region gave us the identity as Indians. As a people part of a region against the British, but this unity was hollow in its very core. When we see a foreign enemy we strengthen ourselves to drive them out. But what lied beyond 1947, pockets of segregated countrymen who form groups through cultural and religious identities and then fight for their rights against what can now be called the “the Indian elites”.
But the adoptions of terms like socialism, secularism and democracy from the West was it ratified by the complete country. Did at any point of time a national consolidation of the foundation on which our country stands today built into the hearts and minds of the people. If that was done, why is it that today at the helm of the 21st century while we stand on the brink of progress are we divided into regional and territorial identities. What is worst is the propagation of these ideas by the government. There are now talks of reservations based on religions, the word 'merit' has multiple meanings in this country.
My greatest fear is of never seeing this country reach the heights that it once had, the progess that we were promised or the power we hope to achieve. To create believers out of cynics like me, we need unity, the emotion of nationalism, of national identities not in words but in actions.
The time is still not lost on us. Maybe we lost some generations but we have so many to look forward to. This rise of the youth has manifested itself in cities, this country is bigger than we might realise. It comprises of people capable of doing horrors. There is no time good enough to treat your country with the respect it deserves.
Just as a 0 divided by itself is undefined, a country divided by itself cannot stand.
I see them everyday on the streets, in social circles people who still act liberal while slowly feeding their regressive vices through acts of total intolerance. Who on one hand speak about reform and a lack of initiative from the political class while themselves act exactly like those politicians in their sphere of influence. Then why blame anyone, when your own moral character is hypocritical.
Indian was built on the platform of social, secular, republic, a country that believed in democracy and the power of the people. But it is precisely those people that have led to the downfall of the Indian social culture. Look at it this way, before the British came to colonize India, who were we, we did not have our identities as Indians, we were part of colonial regimes of the Marathas, Cholas or the more prominent Mughal Empire. The British colonisation of the region gave us the identity as Indians. As a people part of a region against the British, but this unity was hollow in its very core. When we see a foreign enemy we strengthen ourselves to drive them out. But what lied beyond 1947, pockets of segregated countrymen who form groups through cultural and religious identities and then fight for their rights against what can now be called the “the Indian elites”.
But the adoptions of terms like socialism, secularism and democracy from the West was it ratified by the complete country. Did at any point of time a national consolidation of the foundation on which our country stands today built into the hearts and minds of the people. If that was done, why is it that today at the helm of the 21st century while we stand on the brink of progress are we divided into regional and territorial identities. What is worst is the propagation of these ideas by the government. There are now talks of reservations based on religions, the word 'merit' has multiple meanings in this country.
My greatest fear is of never seeing this country reach the heights that it once had, the progess that we were promised or the power we hope to achieve. To create believers out of cynics like me, we need unity, the emotion of nationalism, of national identities not in words but in actions.
The time is still not lost on us. Maybe we lost some generations but we have so many to look forward to. This rise of the youth has manifested itself in cities, this country is bigger than we might realise. It comprises of people capable of doing horrors. There is no time good enough to treat your country with the respect it deserves.
Just as a 0 divided by itself is undefined, a country divided by itself cannot stand.
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