The Ongoing things which are happening in India must have
forced most of us to start thinking in what direction are we and the country is
heading. I’m studying engineering and I
once had a thought in my head that one day I will do something for my country
using this degree. But now I don’t give a rat’s ass for what I’ll do for the
country.
It’s easy…very easy for kids like me to give up hope for
this country...The events happening everyday is as if you wake up every day expecting
some bad news about the country…the
newspapers have added a regular column in the
newspaper like the “daily bad news about the country column”. It devastates
me…pains me even if I think about it minutely.
I and we live in a country where rational thinkers like Mr.
Dhabolkar are shot down slothfully and shockingly while enjoying a morning
power walk. Me being a through atheist and rationalist felt this murder as a
warning to thinking like mine. What the fuck can you do where the way you think
is shot down with 3 bullets? Not just this, but even a year hasn’t gone by nor
the wounds of the nirbhaya rape case have healed when another similar case
crops up...This time in Mumbai… why this thinking? Why? The obvious thing to do
about this is not ask why on social media websites but I’m precisely doing the
same thing. That’s all we can do. The rallies and signed petitions are not
working…are they? I don’t mind contradicting myself in this case. It’s the
shame I can’t handle. What if this happens to someone who’s close to me? How
will I handle that? Will the likes or the tweets come to help me? No they won’t…
The prices of essential commodities are shot high up. I have
no idea what’s causing this…I’m not an economist or a share market guy. But all
I know is that this thing shouldn’t cost as much as it is being sold at to the
general public. The politics happening in this country has reached a whole new
pathetic level. The NaMo followers and the Congress Followers are at eternal
loggerheads. There’s no end to that discussion. I think Mr. Jhamvar and Mr.
Lokhandwala will agree to that with me. But then we as the common public – “The
Aam Aadmi” have our hands full. Some
where this has to be broken and the betterment of the common man has to be
taken into the view. But let’s be blunt. Is this gonna happen in the near
future? I don’t think so.
This made me think about the power of one… what if a single
man dictates over India. Is it gonna bring some change? Like Hitler to Germany,
Mussolini to Italy, Napoleon to France and to be recent Saddam to Iraq. They
had power…all of these men. Thought the public under them suffered a lot. But
then their countries were under great shape. They molded what was to become of
this countries. Removing the exception of Baghdad, the others have flourished
under dictatorship. I know India is the biggest democracy, but is it really? Is
the voice of the common man really the voice of the nation? Is it really with
the people, for the People and by the people. It’s a question to think.
I’m not hoping for this article to reach many people. Bu even
if one person feels the guilt that I feel right now, the shame altogether then
my writing has bore goodness. I love my country for what is is…not for what it
has become…don’t judge me by it…
