The Entropy of India Tends Towards a Maximum
I pity the plight of Rajastan’s ramp walking CM, reaping what her party sowed. But I feel that the political parties of left, right and centre should take a serious note of the happenings in Rajastan instead of trying to fish in troubled waters for the issue has the potential to spread to the other parts of the nation. India was never a united country, although we often use ‘sugar coated’ phrases like unity in diversity. Our biggest chance at national integration was provided by the British. But once we got our freedom, the people who came to power and those who clamored for it began the process of ‘disintegration’, by dividing people to meet their narrow interests.
We are of course ‘unique’ and to the outside world India had always remained a puzzle. When our ‘growth rate’ is said to be 9.5% on one side, more and more communities in India take to the roads demanding ‘backward status’ and those who are already ‘enjoying’ the status either oppose these demands or seek to be classified as ‘most backward’. So the not so informed people in China or Europe will be wondering if India’s progress is in the ‘backward’ direction!
The situation has come to such a state that, the MPs and MLAs of ‘cadre-based’ national parties offer to resign en masse to show solidarity with their communities, A a direct fall out of giving priority to caste and communal considerations over leadership skills and loyalty to the ideologies of the party. Of course, I doubt whether any political party in India follow an ideology these days.
Sometime back one of my friends, who is a follower of a certain religious cult, had mentioned the ‘end of the world’ during a conversation. Out of my curiosity I asked him how it will happen, the apocalypse. He declared that while the rest of the world will be destroyed by a nuclear war, in India the same will be ‘achieved’ by the communal strife. By mere coincidence the cult has its head quarters in Rajastan! I had dismissed it as a joke then. But now, as an old fashioned Indian, I feel concerned about the future of my motherland. And I prefer the death in the Nuclear War to the latter. If our political parties have even a handful of people who can see the dangers lurking behind the games they play, they should take the lead in correcting the course we as a nation had taken.
But what can be done?!
Years ago a visionary, a man of steel whom even Stalin dared not to touch, dreamt of uniting his feuding people under a single nation. But a few years after Josip Broz Tito faded into history those who succeeded him managed to bring down his dream.
In one of the saddest stories I had read about it at the time, one little boy stood at the doors of his house, tears rolling down his cheek, and waved good bye to his Father one last time…..no his Father didn’t die in the civil war…….. he was walking away on the orders of the local militia, himself holding back tears, into the ‘Muslim Areas’ in Bosnia……for the sake of his son and wife, who happened to be a Croat. The next day the little boy accompanied his maternal Grand Father to the local authorities to officially change his surname from the Muslim one of his Father to the Croat one of his Grand Father…
How easy is it…… to wipe away the relationships?!……
Marshall Tito used to have a close associate…..a certain Pt. Nehru……..
And he too was a dreamer…..
Although I can’t agree with the kind of politics practiced by Ms Scindhia, unlike her detractors from within and outside her party I sincerely hope that she’ll find a way out of the present mess.
2 comments:
Well i had recently read somewher a quote which said "India is the only country where people fight to be called Backward"
That was something that i saw long before the present incident in Rajasthan or the similar incidents in Punjab, where people are fighting for sillier reasons! In both states it appears to me as if the govt wants some riots to happen, and only after a few stones are pelted, a dozen are dead that we see them requesting for central forces and the army! Why couldn't they do it days earlier? No one knows, or rather no1 dares to answer that.
But then ther alwys remains the question, Will any political leader have the guts to say that he doesn't need caste or community based votes?? Even the staunch leftists won't put a candidate from an OBC category as their candidate in TVM constituency! Why is that? Because politics is above ideologies, even for the idealists!
Rediff had an article recently on "Give us a president who can inspire rather than divide"... most of the points of discussion were absolutely valid. The political parties are all trying to find someone satisfying the CASTE-CREED-RELIGION formula.. which sucks. I think we need something like an EAST INDIA COMPANY, again, to unite us against the evils of today.
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