The mass exodus towards Europe
from conflict regions is a stark reminder of things to come. The sights of
vulnerable people scampering for life, perilous journeys, ensuing terrible
tragedies –that once made people feel guilty, mortified, the empathy loses its
way as these get repeated, becomes common. The numbness to other’s misery gives
way to atavistic response to outsiders; this disgust translates into
expressions that could range from xenophobia to racist attitude. The common
people therefore pay the price of avarice of few, the insatiable urge for power
of some as they use all kinds of ideology including faith to achieve it. ISIS
is an opportune creations of fractures between the arbitrators, as the
ecosystem become terrible hence these vicious species. The internet has
accentuated the macabre as also the danger of common place. The complacency
that follows with shifting mediums and images is now a mainstay further numbed
by distracting market. About 70odd people suffocating to death inside a
container truck as they escape for better life would have deeply scythed the
soul, it no longer does, as the images shifts to new scenes of ghastly
meanwhile market breaks in with constant reminders of choices to buy. If it is
not absurd then it must surreal, this really cannot be accepted as the new
normal. It is also becoming increasingly clear that political faith and
expression of religion in public is an anti-thesis to rational values and
concept of modernity, this new low cannot be the arbitration point of democracy
hence defining expression of human right. These kinds of exhibitionist ways of
faith is causing miseries, dividing people and objectifying humans. 
As human population increases the
newly added consumers are celebrated by market based philosophy, the
deterioration is least of concern, meanwhile the richer sections have insulated
themselves and have strategically positioned to gain from the misery, hence
this unconcern for increasing population and deteriorating environment. In
India this unconcern gets consolidated by traditional apathy and habits of clever
reasoning devoid of rationale or ethics. As the climate change impact is felt
it is the most vulnerable who will pay the price. Not Murdoch, this wonder of
market media, a system that invariably places premium on buffoons. There are
many billionaires and millionaires like him, who gained from market buffoonery
and slick manipulation. They are burgeoning all around as the symbols of market
driven prosperity. India being a vassal state for American market is dumped
with these warped notions, therefore the millionaires multiply as the
degradation continues. The consumption based economy celebrates consumption,
and is devoid of any rational thoughts except maybe clever ways to multiply
money. Even wasting is celebrated as it fuels more demand. What kind of demented
system is this? With clear scientific evidences on fossil fuel related carbon
increase warming they don’t seem concerned. A more responsible society would
have stopped events like car racing and unnecessary fuel consumption, to start
with, indeed a crime that is carried on as if some people are living in
parallel universe. If only these irresponsibilities could be contained with
feeling appalled, but we are beyond it. It has started to affect us
directly. Market led by billionaires
like Murdoch and Trump have established that Homo sapiens are money sucking
brutes devoid of any logic except maybe self-aggrandisement. A world centred
around them and for them.
Climate change is going to
displace millions of people. India being a vulnerable country exposed to
vagaries of nature as vast population is exposed as well as dependent. Food
security, livelihood vulnerabilities, exposed to nature’s vagaries and fury,
diseases...all adds to vulnerable section resorting to mass migration. Thickly
populated and extremely vulnerable countries like Bangladesh will have an
impact on India too. Climate migrants is the new crisis that is not very far.
Chickens are coming home to roost: Hindu fundamentalists are always
on the lookout for rallying point, as the religion in itself doesn’t give that
grip. Semitic religion, specifically Islam, have mostly rallied successfully to
reduce the space for expression and values of liberty as twisted understanding
of minority and rights herein gain credence. They have been quite successful in recent times,
the degraded world is much celebrated as vicious patriarchy finds space, child
rights are non-existent, societies are forced to take steps backward to accommodate
these primitive worlds in the guise of protecting minority. It is a collective
lose to humanity. The recent support for killers of Charlie Hebdo brings in
this deceptive framework that thrives on hypocrisy. As voices of sanity get
killed in Bangladesh, in a systematic and brutal manner, the protest is
limited. These are lessons for Hindu fundamentalists. Now if you support, even
remotely, the slick argument that justifies the perpetrators of Charlie Hebdo,
then you have lost your credibility to protest against killing of rationalist
by Hindu fundamentalists. Some highbrow elites tend to play this clever game; the
habit of positioning themselves as voice of peace at international level but
have no qualms in being the brutal local guardians comfortably espousing
freedom of expression to showcase liberal values. In Indian context as
mentioned earlier this is fight of brethren to tighten the grip over common
people. Sickular liberals give an underhand push to fundamentalist; this gives
them the consolidation as also the international pointers of liberalism, much needed credibility. In this sleight the primitive Indian elite come
out as kindred souls. These games have been played quite successfully over the
years. Now that the Hindu fundamentalist are gaining ground, assiduously following
the Islamic fundamentalism, it is an easy journey as sickulars have cleared the
path well with amazing hypocrisy.
Nothing explains why a depraved
scoundrel like Aurangzeb was chosen as a name of a road right in the middle of Delhi.
This is a well thought out plan, it seeks to showcase thyself in the rarefied
field of secularism and beacon of extreme tolerance. This kind of extremes can
be easily be observed in behaviour patterns of Indian sickularism, it comes not
from heightened egalitarian ways but is a product of clever manipulations, an
amazing lack of compassion or empathy is exhibited. In this dangerous game they
also push the society into extremes, and seek to extract benefits from
miseries. It is also not a coincidence that feudal societies like Pakistan
which celebrate these barbarians have firmly moved towards pits, indeed not surprisingly
Pakistan itself has become quite a brutal place on earth churning religious fundamentalism all around (ofcourse it is
a different matter that when Indian elite visit Pakistan they meet people like
thyself, feudal and equally depraved but high on sheen, perfect hosts and a
great evening of subtle words ensconced in barbarity that Indian elite so well understands
that it compliments. It is a second home, as also amazing world of easy sickularism.
They also share same enthusiasm for british monarchy), not to forget inhuman blasphemy laws..
Not quite coincidentally at the junction
of erstwhile Aurangzeb road, next to Lodhi gardens, you will find roads named after fathers of some powerful congress leaders. All within the
turf of sickularism, I believe. Sarmad would have been an ideal choice. It is
people like Sarmad Shaheed who have defined Indian society over the ages, and
have been constant presence in ideas of secularism as Indian people understands
it. He maybe finally rested as a Sufi saint, but it is difficult to classify
whether he was a Jew or a Hindu or Muslim. He falls into a space that defines Indian
secularism. Squatters masquerading liberals, tethered to primitive world as
they are, can reach till sickularism. Sarmad requires understanding, it needs subtlety
and risk, both unknown to mediocre elites, and importantly it also doesn’t fall
into mullah appeasement, the staple of Indian sickularism that quite suits the
feudal power structures which Indian elite so well understands.
