Monday, December 07, 2015
Impotent Nation
Suddenly a great revelation of realization has dawned that India and Indians are intolerant. On the contrary Indians are just dead scared, frightened and would like to camouflage fear, as being resilient and tolerate any rubbish. One rape here or there, or one butchering of an individual for butchering a cow cannot be concluded as the whole nation is intolerant. It just shows fear of the majority to a miniscule minority; who claim to be gate keepers and moral guardians of a majority alleged practiced religion. Alleged as religion because it cannot be religion if it has to be driven and practiced with fear, and those who don’t subscribe to the religious beliefs or practices of something as a basic right of food habits are killed.
26/11 when terrorists attacked
Bombay, we had a minister who said “in big cities such small things do happen”.
Were we intolerant to his remarks; no way. Instead we ensured he and his party
continued to be in power and showed our support with tolerance. This same
minister even went to say at a later stage when one party’s candidate committed
an act of rape, “that he should have done it after the elections”. What an
immense amount of tolerance India and Indians continued to show. Nature has
been too intolerant to take away such a good politician away from our midst. The politicians who continue to survive in our
midst is only because of our tolerance.
Another minister once remarked on
a draught situation, “If there is no water, should one urinate in the dams, and
how can one urinate when there is no water”. How profound and thought provoking
but never provoked India or India to intolerance. Scams worth billions of
dollars equivalent, which could have run the nation without levying any taxes
for a couple of years, yet India and ‘employed’ Indians continued to be
tolerant and pay taxes. Now we have to pay a ‘Cleanliness Tax’ to clean our
country and our tolerance to rubbish. Next would be an ‘Intolerance Tax’ for
our tolerance to it.
We have ministers who have not
passed high school, housewife who ran a government when the husband was in
jail, elected parties to power who leaders have blood on their hands for
inciting violence and riots. What more level and acts of tolerance need to be more
displayed by Indians and India? When beef was banned there should have been
intolerance by the many who consumed it, but there was none. It was solidarity,
support and tolerance shown to the government. To the extent for protein people
resorted to the poor man’s food, which is lentils, only to end up taking pills
to control anxiety and depression of the spiraling prices of the basic
commodity. Was there any intolerance, were there riots? Indians showed
tolerance to the Marie Antoinette of a decision, where if you can’t have beef
have lentil, if you can’t have both, have a chill pill. Indians are promised of
Acche Din Ayengey, meaning Good Days will come. Confident India and Indians are
showing support and tolerance and patiently awaiting the Acche Din, even if
many have to scavenge food from the bin.
The more we tolerate the more we
are subjected to what we are experiencing. It’s time it is battled with
courage. Otherwise soon we would be known, not just an intolerant nation but an
impotent one, with potency only to prove our population growth.
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