Yes i am... because i have the right to what i want, i have the right to say what i want and i have the right to go where i want to. My country has given me this right and if i break a lamp post tomorrow nobody can stop me! If i extort money from the poor how can you question me? I will sit on a 'aamaran anshan' if you do not fulfill my demands, i will destroy national property because i want something and you are not giving it to me. I love my country but i won't stay here all my life... i will not stand up for the national anthem...dude its just a song!
That's how your democratic 'janta' thinks these days. They feel its their birth and civic right to bloddy do what they want to coz that is what democracy is right!? Or that's how we interpret it or want it to be? When a person is given rights in the name of freedom it seldom extends to taking various liberties. That's what i have seen lately. I don't need to be a soldier to love my country. I am a citizen and i feel proud to be part of the world's largest democracy. When India got independance it wasn't even on the back of anybody's mind that democracy so conviniently will be translated into liberties. Our country today has become more libertarian than democratic. Everyone does what they want and get away with it!
Now why i am writing these provocative words is because i was watching news in the morning and was highly disturbed by the menace in Rajasthan. Roads have been blocked, trains have been cancelled and a curfew has been imposed in NCR and Noida and all because a few sect of people want reservation quota for them! We all anticipated this as this aint the first time this community has been voilatile. Now this is democracy and i will do what i want... see the difference? By the good old books in our constitution democracy in this situation means ' i have a demand and i want you to hear me out, there has to be a way of fulfilling my demands also'... but look what libertarians do!
This country is filled with people of freewill. I am free and i will! Everybody exercises their freewill in their capacities and worst is when people at responsible posts make use of it. The Aarushi murder case is a classic example - after hours of not getting even a ion closer to the murderer the police suddenly sprung up one day saying they found the culprit. I dont want to comment on how true they are since its subjudice but because they were under pressure from media and the govt the named people and we all know that. For years the most highly placed people have been the most frivilous of the lot and i am talking out of experience. I sometimes pity the state of this country because if it was at all run by people then it would not have been the way it is.
Everything is fantastic about India but the crime rate and the dirt. Vast number of uneducated class has ruined the country. There is a large mass of educated illiterates as well. I was at nariman point last week and sipped tea gazing at the sun set. I turned around to find a dustbin but there was none! I was amazed because its evidently a posh area and some chic 7 stars around but no dustbins! The guy besides me asked me to throw it away in the water but i felt terrible about it. We walked almost a strecth of 1km to find the nearest dustbin. While i was walking i saw a filthy rich woman with servants walking her dogs bought some Chana and threw the paper right near the dustbin. I stood in horror! You are much more educated than the Chanawala... what happens to the civic sense suddenly? Why curse anybody else that they dirty our city?
The Scarlette murder case was merrily covered by the police and when the case got international attention it had already tarnished the image of the country, our systems and our efficiency. Why would anybody want to believe we are sane and civilised people?
Its a case that when parents give too much freedom to their children they end up in a mess always. Freedom then goes on taking a few liberties... staying up late, staying over at friends' place, partying a LITTLE late in the night and so on.. that's just the beginning! And the day arrives when parents realise that the freedom which is so called "olryt" with them has gone too far! Same applies to the country. If our fellas were so capable of running the country or even contributing in teeny veeny way, don't you think we would have been better placed in the world map?
Look at the generation whom your allowing democracy for. Cinemas play national anthem and the caution says stand up so everybody stands. But recently the movie Krazzy 4 had the national anthem in it and the entire hall kept thinking and sat in a dilemma! We were a large bunch and we stood up instantly... while others got up looking at us. Why are we ashamed of standing up for the national anthem? Does it make you 'uncool'??? I was dismayed about the fact that the country will be full of more such people in the future who think 'liberty' is cool and democracy is civic book lesson!
Corruption is perhaps at its all time high, prices going up like there is no tomorrow, people destroying public and national property as of it belongs to their forefathers. I guess its time that the govt takes control of the situation in this country. Civics books need to be re-written and the generation needs to embibe democracy in their regular lives. Democracy means the you are party to all decisions to be made and that's your importance. I we were so capable we would not need heads to run the country. I really wish this country together with people solve the matter democratically! Let's all work towards a better future... nothing can stop us from bein a superpower anyway with our GDP crossing USA's in another 20 yrs, the future only seems brighter.
I am not democracy, i form the democracy... i am a part of it...
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Hi,
I can completely understand your frustration at the convenient use of democracy by several million people simultaneously. I have been on a spate of reading books about India. Finished 'Being Indian' by Pavan Varma, 'India Unbound' by Gurcharan Das, 'Games Indians Play' by V Raghunathan and now reading 'We are like that only' and 'Elephant Paradigm'. Raghunathan makes a valid point when he looks at our behaviour in the light of Game Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma. We have a maid sweep our home every morning, yet not even blink before throwing used plastic on the road. The maid sweeps the floor spotless clean, but we dont stop to think before spitting on the road!
Why? Because the road belongs to nobody in particular? Not just that. Its the classic Akbar-Birbal story. What difference will it make if I throw JUST one gutkha wrapper or spit just ONCE? Its the mentality which says - why should I invest in this system at all? I am free to take from it, I am not bound to give back anything to it. In 1947, we became independent. The Hindi word describes it aptly - SWATANTRA. So there is a 'TANTRA' to it all. And it ought to stem from 'SWA'. Unfortunately its meaning has got convoluted (compounded by petty politicians and snail-paced judiciary) to mean that 'I will do what I please." Being SWATANTRA ought to bring a sense of responsibility which says "I will first think whether it is right to do something before acting it out. ANd if my 'SWA' does not permit me to do it, I wont."
What does one do when the 'SWA' has been mortgaged for a short term benefit. The Prisoner's Dilemma exhorts us to think of the long term instead of lookign for immediate gains. But how many people are listening?
If you keep writing excellent stuff like this, more people will !
Cheers,
Pushkaraj
www.express-explore.blogspot.com
Absolutely, i wonder if there are more people who feel like this... unless we initiate a mass clean up drive nothing in this country can come clean!
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