Representation of Every Indian's Utter Frustration
Human might be perhaps the only
animal on earth that can lie to himself and to his conscience, both
consciously. Sometimes it seems the 23
pair of chromosomes did inherit nothing and wasted their energy over 9 months
to develop just a chunk of flesh and bones arranged in some atrocious fashion
to function meticulously. We even tend to believe to have an extra organ called
mind, which actually is the hypocritical brain of ours. Man (pardon me, if I am generalizing the
ostensible gender, it is just because overall the earth is patriarchal),
throughout the history is busy at winding and unwinding rules and regulations
just to yoke down, their own over kinetic mind. So to be precise, with and
without the rational thinking capability, man is the dirtiest animal on earth.
Today we live in a country, which
being an agricultural economy, is called to be a mixed economy, and is treading
vehemently to become a capitalist economy. When each and every individual will
have a means of survival, and that too independently, the economy will grow at
a much multiple level, but as the ideology has an inclination towards Marxist
economy, has just become another good reason of denial. The hierarchical occupation
becomes extinct, the cities become crowded and more and more people remain
unemployed. Being over dependent on a
country like US for our IT imports and exports and more for outsource, just
gives the companies another fair and pseudo-justifiable reason to cut-short the perks and the number of
employees for a much hailed pseudo term called recession. It is rather ironical
to think that does India depend on US or the actual scenario is vice-versa ...
From my childhood, I have been
foretold, that I live in a nation which is diverse in all aspects but their
lies an underneath unity. But pathetically I have realized that the ballad is
just limited to the boundaries of the game of Cricket and the war with
Pakistan, the enthusiasm further gets stratified when it’s IPL. Gandhism is
just confined among the 15 national languages on a currency note and other
equally prominent freedom fighters, great personalities, important days get
tattooed on coins and stamps. A malignant variant of Gandhism is adopted by the
political parties or individually only when the prices of commodities/fuel is
hiked or will be just for personal gains, but here the ideology of non-violence
is subdued. Here national holidays are just another Sunday for relaxing and
picnicking and the people who are brimmed with patriotism just turn on their
television and put Doordarshan. It’s rather sardonic that the soldiers secure
the borders but fail to prevent the terrorists from entering the parliament or
from roaming around in luxurious hotels; even there are societies who are just
unsafe by their mere presence and struggle with the government to withdraw
their forces.
Recently the newspapers made me
aware why my nation is one of the most unsafe nations on earth for women folk.
In the deed among the states, Kerala use to top the list, but I used to ignore
the same thinking, as I thought it has to do something with literacy as more
and more cases get registered here, might have been the parameter. I don’t know how long the inhumane assault in
the Capital and the judiciary’s decision to protect the culprits for 20 years
safely from the mob, will steam the entire nation. What was taboo in our
culture is now the flash news in the channels, and that makes me realize and
admit the Hindi words BCs and MCs. I do fear, even at this moment of my
writing, somewhere in some unknown corner a girl is molested or a bastard is
born in India.
As far as our culture is
concerned, we are on a wild goose chase and nobody is aware where and for what
we are hurrying fast, neither the corrupt and extravagant bureaucrats nor the
blind judiciary. There is also a stratum which believes that corruption is
directly proportional to development and that notion can’t be fully ignored. Even
the terms like love and brotherhood has been cramped in monuments, mobile
phones and more to the inches of a computer screen.
Unlike other countries, in my
nation everything can occur in a single day, festivals, accidents, corruptions,
elections, murders, rapes, suicides, births, games, tour, pilgrimages, charity,
films, gossips, work, family, sex and finally we Indians take a nap. Above the
seven wonders actually the most wondrous is the human mind which is oxymoronic
in nature, is culturally and religiously biased and is not at the same time, is
political and yet apolitical, is positive and negative, and makes people think
poles apart just some kilometers away divorced by imaginary land boundaries of
earth. Amidst all this and more, the nation is producing a mundane progeny,
which one day will not be able to identify even the national flag with that of
Hungary, Niger, and Italy. But still we are developing...
