I think India has lost its center, everyone I repeat everyone is an extremist or conforms to some extremist thought. It is really unfortunate that we have reached this point in civil society. Let me try to give some examples in support of my assertions:
1) BJP, VHP, SIMI and all are extreme right, I condemn all religious right irrespective of which community, majority or minority, but the question is , do we have moderates any more? I don't think so, the secular (so called) are also becoming more extreme in their zeal to defend the minorities against the majorities, the perceived notions of injustice are being fanned up, some say for political gains, some say for genuine reasons, some just to espouse a cause to rally the masses, which ever way you look at, one extreme takes law into its hands, tries to damage civil society, and the other extreme tries to question the same law enforcement, doubts every action of the state, both are extreme in their own right.
2) Look at the young in India, they either want to Vote, or they don't want to, they are oblivious to any other consequence.
3) India either wants big time industrialization or it doesn't want anything to do with it, at the cost of getting stuck in poverty, its become a choice of either capitalism or socialism, there is no middle ground visible anywhere.
4) You can either smoke and get arrested, or you stop smoking, there is no space earmarked where a smoker can smoke peacefully.I mean there is no middle path as such, i hope soon the state wont dictate as to how many times one should have sex with his/spouse in a week and what positions are allowed as per Islam/Hinduism/Christianity or the IPC :)
5) Either you get reservations for ever, or you don't get any ever.
Indian civil society seriously needs to think how it is behaving, burning trains and buses, getting goons like Raj to solve labor issues, people like Mamta blocking Highways, is there an optimism left? The problem seems to be that every Indian citizen is suddenly aware of his RIGHTS but cares two hoots about his/her responsibilities. Its a false notion of protective socialist democracy that has given us this state.
I also want to pose a question, who in INDIA has not been wronged and who is not a minority in some situation or the other?
1. I felt a victim being the son of a class 4 employee in railways, felt discriminated that my dad had no connections anywhere!
2. I feel discriminated for being born in a POOR Brahman family which can be safely argued to be a minority going by Indian GOVT statistics and being forced to pay for the sins of my forefathers, while the rich Brahmin's enjoyed privileges.
3.I feel discriminated for not being cared for by the State.
So what shall i do? Will an Arundhati or a Ram Jethmalani tell me if I am wrong in not going the violent way? ;) I don't think they have any sympathy for the silent sufferers like me, the world cares more about those killed in encounters :)
Get back to the centre guys, neither the left nor right help us in anyways!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Dear kathik, as usual, urs is voice in the wilderness... everything goes on and on as it has been, History repeats, the progress is minute, and propaganda is too much, Life goes on dear friend, do u think any thing good has happend by some one crying aloud against the tragedies of the day? only reforms, or change of heart sometimes bring some change in some body/s life..bec now a days there is lot of cheating and double life... unlike in the past in the old good golden days..lol
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