Diminishing Democracy… nothing serious
They say foreign invaders plundered India of its wealth, culture, and sanctity down the ages. They brought down worship places, renamed cities, and propagated religious faiths. They implemented newer policies with brute force on the pretext of building a Great Nation for its people without taking into consideration its people. Eh . . .!
We all know what they overlooked and undermined in their callous one-way approach during the process. Yes! The basic needs, rights and sentiments of the communities living in it.
But how different is the present scenario? Perhaps the savage style of the ruling has taken on a muted or so-called civilised form of suppression. They used lances and swords. Today we use sentiments and votes. The power at hand is used in the same way, with much the same result. Undermining the needs, rights, and sentiments of the communities in the Nation they proclaim to be building.
For whom were/are they building a Nation, if not (us) the people? Just wondering . . .
As far as I can comprehend, it is not to build a Nation but to even out centuries of wrongdoing that, too, centuries later. One whimsical ruler against the other.
Is it any good? Where do we stand as the people of the Nation? We, as citizens, are dutifully surrendering our present and the future in its wake. To remain Nationalist.
Let us applaud! Like the good Nationalists that we are. Come on, most of the Nation is doing it. Do not agree . . .? All right, as you say, let us remain silent like the rest of the Nation.
Real people’s real causes are losing to fake opinions, hatred, and IDs. Who is suffering, and who’s going to suffer? Aren’t we the ones, the real people? Just a thought . . . nothing serious. . . .
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