There was a guy a few decades ago, who did weird unheard of stuff to test the patience of the opponent, and did ultimately end up freeing a whole nation. He made history, and of course a few controversies, and he became an example. It made perfect sense.
Now the nonsense I’m referring to is the sense other people make of it.
A supposedly great yogi gets blamed for corruption, has a ‘satyagraha’ of over hundreds of people, and then escapes police capture feebly, dressing up as a woman. Satyagraha? Really?
The police could put an end to the ‘satyagraha’ by mere tear gas and lathi charge… is that history repeating itself, or history being slapped across the face?
And this tear gas attack is compared to the greatest massacre the country has ever seen. I mean, seriously. A massacre means people dying, not people crying!
A person fasts for a while, and states get divided, organs are formed, bonds are changed. My mom fasts every Friday. So do I get something out of it?
And of course, the whole situation gets turned into politics. This party blames that party, this minister blames that minister, and it goes on. Our country was freed and independent over 65 years ago. I’m just a teenager and I’m already bored by the nonsense that politics has now come to mean.
On a completely unrelated note, a politician starts dancing to patriotic songs, and calls it ‘freely expressing her patriotism’. What are you even supposed to say to that? Good for her maybe! But it is still an issue, and a rather ridiculous one at that.
We have a tendency to blame the world to point at every silly crap that happens and say, ‘it happens only in India’, and argue that India is much more than just that. Well, I’d take a double on that and say, ‘really? You believe that?’
What is India, other than a battleground for politicians trying to get into power, seek maximum attention? What is Mumbai, other than a city where beautiful heritages are plagued with slums and posters of one politician wishing another politician a happy birthday for mere cheap publicity? We know its more than that, but how are we going to convince the world? With all the nonsense that happens, we are very far from bringing the fact that India is a fast growing economy, a hard-working nation, a friendly, peaceful nation with rich heritage and history , to surface.
Politics is weird, because it is game where everyone is a loser, and the winner is in fact the biggest one. Where greed wears the mask of morality. Where you have to think and rethink everything, even democracy, which is the biggest hit in political science yet. Is it really working?
Frankly, I have no idea.
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