Salute to an INDIA who is martyr to the hands of POLITICS…..

Feb 24, 2011 0 comments

Since time immemorial, India shifted from an imperial power to democracy. Or rather I should mention to demagoguery.  The so called “By the people, of the people and For the People” government has taken its way towards political elitism making the “aam aadmi” to suffer most.  And the reality is we are bound to suffer. The reason is truly justified by Bill Clinton’s eloquent speech at Campus Progress National Student Conference on July 13, 2005. He says-
“People really don’t care if politicians attack each other with untrue stories. They figure if you don’t want to get hurt, you shouldn’t have filed for office. They figure whatever happens to us, our lives will be better than theirs.”

It all starts when the candidates come out on hustings with their astute but incandescent speeches and the innocent “janta” is carried away by their sycophancy. To win over the desired incumbent position the leaders adapt poignant practices accompanied by their cock and bull stories that land citizens into thick soup. Didn’t the wisecrack highlight the same point when the common man and his brethren donated a mammoth garland strung together with 1,000-rupee notes to their beloved dalit leader MAYAWATI? 
Gone are the times when the tenacious leaders like Indira Gandhi blazed a trail in the Indian history as they kick started a new revolution in the Indian political state turning its face towards an advancing world? But unfortunately the developing India has been bogged down by our current hypocratic politicians who promise and forget. Till now parliament has done only “lip service”. There have been proliferous tasks that they start impeccably but then leave it in the abyss of despair. For instance, most political leaders talk about emancipation of women but turn their back when it comes to the empowerment of women. Truly these politicians are versatile in creating a grimy political arena where its citizens are left with a thinking that has the “Cinderella syndrome” as its basis.
Leaders suggest their people to work in unison but it is quite an irony that these parties have gossip mongers within their society itself who takes less than a minute to make the mountain out of molehill. Thanks to media that we are timely updated with this ostentatious game that helps increase our inquisitiveness in the “Indian politics” which otherwise seems drab and phony to many. 
The burgeoning political turmoil and coercion has ushered into a “CROOKED” Indian government giving way to a fourth world which lets say may talk about under deteriorating nations. It can be clearly seen that the present “Langda Bharat” is a corollary of our actions that we blindly trust the contemptible politicians and hand our nation in their hands. The naked truth is we consciously jump on the political band wagon of electing where we never vote for anybody, we always vote against. It is so because we think it concerns our nation and not are personal lives.  We often forget that we are from India and not India from us. And then we are smugly saying “Bharat ka kuch nai ho sakta”. We forget that being Indian citizens we have certain responsibilities towards our collective society which we call nation. Just electing the representatives and then blaming them for everything while carving our own personal niche is not enough.
We must remember Baapu’s words when he said “we must become the change we want”.If we keep on sleeping with our duties like this it will be tantamount to admit that there certainly will be a fourth world with India topping the list. Time to wake up Indians. It’s not too late. Afterall even our protagonist Indira Gandhi firmly believed that “MARTYRDOM does not end something, it’s only a beginning.”

The lamb India is awaiting its crutches. Bharat tabhi jagega jab uski junta jagegi…”
Hope this small attempt of mine speaking the voice of Youngistan will help reconcile the need for better India with a concern for our democratic principles.

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