Demolish the Idea of India

There are some in the elitizens who have constructed something called Idea of India, it is concoction of their manipulations and possibilities therein that perpetuate their hold over common people in a rather bleak attempt on egalitarianism. Gandhi was one of the founding members, it also has some hash of Nehruvian benevolence. Nehruvian values sought to put logical and attempt to broaden minds but it couldn’t disguise a deep felt dislike for Hindu ways, almost paranoid elitism mimicking British, that had come to define modernity among the westernized Hindus. Yes there are and were obnoxious Hindu practices but ironically elitizens (including Nehru or for that matter Gandhi) didn’t seek to demolish or even relegate deviant and exploitative Hindu structure. And so Mishras and Pandeys carried on their task of building the Idea of India without as much as showing any awareness of what their identity tag carried or meant. So they accrued from the feudal and inhumanly exploitative past, in the meanwhile it also gave them assured humbleness and direct access to truth. They have since expanded their horizon as spokespersons of Indians, some in an act of cession have completely migrated to west, but hung on to vasudeva kutumbakam as an act of chivalry.  The hallow of indecency and mediocrity that majority of Indians carry is not their fault, its an unique attribute mix of entitlement, providence and inbreeding.    

    

The Idea of India that works on entitlement driven worldview and values, and a relatively recent entrant called secularism. Secularism has since become a runaway success among elitizens that also help showcase themselves as world standard humanitarians and intellectuals. Incidentally this was added as an afterthought into Indian constitution, coinciding with Indira Gandhi’s manipulation of religious communities against each other, and Muslims as vote banks and mullahs as arbitrators. This was beginning of an exploitation even colonial Britain couldn’t achieve. Henceforth minorities were mullahs and muslims elites, and any hint of harm to them was seen as threat to secularism and therefore idea of India. Obnoxious practices of mullahs (that includes polygamy) and hedonistic lifestyles of Muslim elites were to be seen as signs of Indian diversity. In the meanwhile the exploitative hindu structure was kept intact with tacit acknowledgement, and even promotion through matrimonial columns and attending elaborate arranged marriages that was nothing but perpetuation of deviance and crude culture. All these while the lowest and poorest suffered, irrespective of religion and region. This therefore is the Idea of India that has been practiced and sought to be protected. They have added pointers of modernity to not only make it attractive to western narration but also the omniscient market which they are direct beneficiary of. 

Pankaj Mishra is another of elitizens, from distant shores, who has taken the cudgels of saving our souls  by also writing in foreign newspapers, this affliction tops elitizens bucket list. He may have humble railway colony background, that he may harp, but the Mishras are quite clear in their pecking order, and I am quite sure that he is fully aware how these translates into horrendous reality as it percolates down. So when they migrate to city it is matter of time when sanskaras and ideas of India will catch up to save them from ignominy. It’s about latching on, for Mishras it comes with effortless ease and opens up doors double quick, sometimes it is referred to as Indian tradition. It is subtlety between pure vegetarian and vegetarian which the ordinary souls will take few more janmas to understand. This therefore is idea of India. Mishra points to certain aberrations in Kasturi boys publication in context to mullahs angst in Kashmir (this blogger has already mentioned that Article 370 is divisive and discrimination against Indian people, it prevents assimilation. Under this framework military pressures are likely –that falls in the ambit of the duties of nation state, put that in context of rabid neighborhood), he may score some liberal brownie points but he himself represent a tradition of exploitation is not lost to us Indians (westerners may not get it, that is the saving grace of Indian liberalism). That Mishra didn’t find any problems with matrimonial columns nor the little brahmanical faith column that has obnoxious temple squatter’s piety as enlightenment, which no civilized newspaper would carry, is instructive. Thankfully Kasturi boys stopped astrology, another of idea of India that invades channels early morning with all kinds of charlatans working on future of our souls, in a very taut exploitative framework. I am told they have problems with superstition, which is practiced by common people for immediate succor from misery, but these kinds of nonsense that come in TV or street corners are I believe part of idea of India. The other day I came across article by Padgoankar (weebit unhinged fellow is now completely unhinged), you must observe his bearings, the vintage Nehruvian liberal concerns, put up mannerism and speech (the accent should make Mrinal Pandey –another bearer of truth, extremely content), but doesn’t find anything amiss in mentioning the President as ‘brahmin’ (in association with other fine qualities, by default he himself claims), such blatant casteism would have been shunned by civilized society but in the idea of India these are valued. He himself comes out amazingly liberal with heightened concerns for safeguarding Idea of India.  

  

It’s time to demolish the Idea of India that is holding common people on ransom, the new political dispension in centre is least likely to do it. Indian political elite is only an extension of exploitative framework, and so is the game of secularism and acquired pointers of liberalism that is firmly fixed to seize the western imagination. This blogger will make all effort to consistently expose these scoundrels who have gotten hold of our narration and even deciding what is good for us, taking high moral grounds, in the meanwhile exploiting common people and accruing feudal benefits.     

Post script: any guesses what do these people, whose pictures are there in this blog, have in common? …liberalism comes so very easy as much as fundamentalism for some. It is a cult feeling that find outlet in different context but seeks benefits nevertheless. The burden of Idea of India falls on very few people, indeed only few can understand it. It takes only 100 Rs (just about1.5$, to give an international perspective) to change your surname!! But that would be emasculation of Idea of India. Sambavani yuge yuge!! You cannot take high moral stand from a primitive framework, this hypocrisy has been allowed for too long, will not be tolerated, credentials will be scrutinized.