Is India a democracy?
People will answer this with a proud, pompous and untrue "Of Course! How can you even ask such a silly question? India is the largest Democracy in the world". Well... No comments dude... But its time to realize that you have been seriously brain-washed, and maybe if you think rationally it will be a frustrating realization.
India is not the world's largest democracy. It is the world's largest hypocrisy.
Our laws are as feudal as they can get. We are in a kingdom. The govt is the king with no power, the bureaucarcy are the nobles with all power. Taxes are high, value of money is on the decline, inflation has taken away the commoners spending power. Luxury goods are getting cheaper, basic amenities, food is getting costlier. Corruption has spread in every nook and corner of the system leaving none untouched.
A foreign sorceress and her pretentious son have bewitched the royals and ruined the land, meanwhile filling up their own treasury. The opposition is troubled and equally corrupt, fighting over trifles, and never getting to the point.
Well, in short, the system is rotten.
The system we live in is cynical, the powerful exploit it to the demands of the agressive few, to bargain for more power. 80% of the parliament has criminal records. The govt cares about the image of the Gandhi-Nehru family, but not about the needs of farmers. Censorship has reached its limit. People are not allowed to talk freely, express their views about a person. If that happens, historical institutes are ransacked, buses are torched, books are banned, people issue fatwa against these poor guys who have just done one thing- exercised their right to expression of thought!
Dr. Ambedkar, your constitution is under attack!! Oh, but never mind, you dint write it, did you! You just copied it from various sources. Yeah thats a tough job in the absence of Wikipedia and Internet. Hats off to you Sir!
Patriotism.
Well, thats one word from history.
Our National Anthem was written as a song to welcome King George. Hell with it.
Our first Prime Minister (I might get a lawsuit for writing this!!!), let go "barren, waste land" coz he dint care about it. He wore French clothes and smoked foreign cigars while advocating Swadeshi. Hell with him.
Whenever I think about this kind of stuff.... I end up getting frustrated. But we cant ignore it can we?? That is what our parents did. That is what our grandparents did. We cant be following their path can we?? We need change. Yeah its time.
People will answer this with a proud, pompous and untrue "Of Course! How can you even ask such a silly question? India is the largest Democracy in the world". Well... No comments dude... But its time to realize that you have been seriously brain-washed, and maybe if you think rationally it will be a frustrating realization.
India is not the world's largest democracy. It is the world's largest hypocrisy.
Our laws are as feudal as they can get. We are in a kingdom. The govt is the king with no power, the bureaucarcy are the nobles with all power. Taxes are high, value of money is on the decline, inflation has taken away the commoners spending power. Luxury goods are getting cheaper, basic amenities, food is getting costlier. Corruption has spread in every nook and corner of the system leaving none untouched.
A foreign sorceress and her pretentious son have bewitched the royals and ruined the land, meanwhile filling up their own treasury. The opposition is troubled and equally corrupt, fighting over trifles, and never getting to the point.
Well, in short, the system is rotten.
The system we live in is cynical, the powerful exploit it to the demands of the agressive few, to bargain for more power. 80% of the parliament has criminal records. The govt cares about the image of the Gandhi-Nehru family, but not about the needs of farmers. Censorship has reached its limit. People are not allowed to talk freely, express their views about a person. If that happens, historical institutes are ransacked, buses are torched, books are banned, people issue fatwa against these poor guys who have just done one thing- exercised their right to expression of thought!
Dr. Ambedkar, your constitution is under attack!! Oh, but never mind, you dint write it, did you! You just copied it from various sources. Yeah thats a tough job in the absence of Wikipedia and Internet. Hats off to you Sir!
Patriotism.
Well, thats one word from history.
Our National Anthem was written as a song to welcome King George. Hell with it.
Our first Prime Minister (I might get a lawsuit for writing this!!!), let go "barren, waste land" coz he dint care about it. He wore French clothes and smoked foreign cigars while advocating Swadeshi. Hell with him.
Whenever I think about this kind of stuff.... I end up getting frustrated. But we cant ignore it can we?? That is what our parents did. That is what our grandparents did. We cant be following their path can we?? We need change. Yeah its time.
Some of your points require citations, such as "80% of the parliament has criminal records."
ReplyDeleteApart from that, I want to expand on one of your points. It seems you are disappointed with Jawaharlal Nehru. Understandable, as he did a few mistakes. Let me tell you something about him which he did right. It might persuade you to have a little less extreme view about him.
After independence, we had negligible military power and Nehru knew that. At that time, the world was in the midst of the cold war, two superpower, the Soviets vs the United States. Who should India stand with, US or USSR? Had we declared allegiance, we would have been vulnerable to any military strike, in any case, we would have spent our money into the war. But Nehru started the non-aligned movement. We decided to take no side, thus keeping India out of the war! It was the smartest possible move for a new independent, poor country. People think it was a move based on principle - non0violence and stuff like that. No, it was a politically calculated move which Nehru took to protect India, and that is probably why we are in such good shape today.
Yes Nehru did some mistakes, but its unfair to "hell with him," because he took the responsibility of a country, he made some good decisions, and after all, no one is perfect.