India is set to face national general
elections next year and the cantankerous nonsense is back. This blogger, like
most common people in this country, strongly support the call for unified election.
We shouldn’t have state elections every now and then. All states must have
election simultaneously -ideally midway between each general election. Too many
elections are adding to nothing except more nuisance and trash talk. Being an overwhelmingly primitive society elections instigates rabid voices and regressive assertions. Herd controlling politicians,
media, religions, caste cannibals, viciously snarl at each other undermining
existential issues and immediate needs of collective good. They take narration away from common
people, sideline critical policy matters and crucial emerging issues. Democracy
is important but cannot be perpetually be stuck in the process itself that it
becomes a cruel joke on people -they are divided, dissected, eviscerated and
left for next election ‘mela’. Democracy starts within the family and society,
and a society reeked in patriarchy, regressive values nurtured by caste,
deviant degrading rituals, superstitions and servile devotions, if left with
the process will degrade it further. More time is needed for egalitarian value
system to nurture -for democracy to percolate. It also is significantly hinged
on policy makers, government, so on apart from education. Lacking intellectuals
or tradition of discourse (except through redacted retrofitted history and
squatter belch) this society uniquely lacks framework or nuances to capitalize on
freedom that democracy offers. If not careful and corrective actions taken then
with literacy and higher HDI this country will see its limit in Kerala. Beggar minded
middle class appropriating possibilities of education and HDI into all spectrum
of society and through lowest denominators of religions associate for their crass
consumerism. So, whether materially rich or poor they are mostly beggar minded
class with smaller and bigger houses eating the same food, watching the same
nonsense and aspiring for the same crass as they dig deeper pits of security. The so-called scientist and shopkeeper are only occupations of chance hence the demonstrations of fervent gratitude and servility. They could very
well be carcasses performing rituals. Education holds no potential. Literacy and HDI provided stability
to find bearing and equip to grow into better versions and enchanting world. This society peaked and
since lacked collective intelligence or civilized ways nor could nurture intellectual
probity or class hence slipped into itself, and now cannibalizes while constructing
narration of grand and seeking minor acknowledgment from anywhere in the world as
collective victory. Mimicking excellence and appropriating words out of context
to create its own narration of success and template for herd the pathetic don’t pass basic scrutiny on any parameter. And yes, I have spent quite
less time here and really don’t prefer except as a tourist or left in verdant nature -indeed such beautiful scenes.
A self-obsessed self-consuming bunch that holds no hope for humanity. In 1970s to
90s there were some vibrant people and fledgling of intellectual consolidations
and grassroot movements but these are now appropriated by herd -the middle
class eternally optimistic consumers spreading positive energy through nonstop
entertainment while family values and righteousness drip from every orifice. How much
rotten can it get? I am told this is happening all across the world with market
spreading through technology and weaponizing religions but other societies have
hinges of sanity, presence of strong intellectual traditions and space for excellence
that nurtures and spreads subtler aspects of life, newer and nuanced expressions of art, science and
thinking, these though varies in its size and strength across societies. In here it is absent and in its
place we have doppelgangers of mediocrities, obsession for record keeping/breaking
as parameter of evaluation and merit -necessarily a byproduct of hierarchical mindset, and
a nation celebrating headlines like “becoming second nation to hop on
the moon”. Outsiders find this misery churning chaotic mediocrities exotic.
Castetva forces degraded the society
for last many decades and the ecosystem they nurtured, it seems, is overwhelming
hindutva too hence reducing the possibilities of egalitarian ways of hinduism (ofcourse
within the juvenile anachronistic framework of religion). This harebrained idea
of changing India to Bharat will backfire. It was always used interchangeably
but this assertion of Bharat is foolhardy to say the least. Just because castetva
worked out acronym doesn’t mean hindutva should start hitting its head. We live
in global world and being a predominantly youth nation most youngsters are connected
globally. India, and being an Indian, has acquired strong value in the recent
few years and most youngsters prefer it that way. As it is hindutva is doing well on
perception and should win the next general election mainly due to lack of effective opposition -and its ranting leaders. Bharat can be used but don’t insist particularly with semi-literate muckraking
fringe leaders. They may think that with UCC and Ram mandir as trump card they can mesmerize
the herd – and surely they will, but the climate breakdown impact is looming
and will be a major factor, all else is sideshow.
We are moving into a climate state
where unprecedented is becoming normal. Weather records are being broken on
daily basis, biodiversity vanishing without we even being aware of them and our
vocabulary too is failing to grasp the fasting changing reality. India, that is
Bharat, as is pointed by many studies is extremely climate vulnerable and with
more that billion people is in serious bother. Add to lack of egalitarian value
system with even basic understanding of terms like community. In this country
hundreds and thousands of people die everyday for no fault of theirs, these are
mostly ignored or manipulated as minor law and order issue that languishes in tardy
squatter seized judicial system forever. Climate breakdown is going to kill
millions of most vulnerable. We have seen how state collapsed during peak of covid.
We are no longer having rain or monsoon but cloud burst and intense episodes of
rain this will vanish into drought in few months. Himalayan glaciers too are drying up. Have they made arrangements
to collect rainwater being fully aware what the situation is going to be few
months from now -and let me add, in the election year if nothing else is
motivating them? Sponge cities are one such initiatives that could be emulated -just to give an example. Create underground
storage stadiums like structures in big cities to collect rainwater runoff as
also act as recreational space during low water. Already erratic monsoons and
flooding has destroyed crop. There is an agro-climatic crisis in the horizon
that cannot be only handled with stored foodgrains since what we are looking at
is collapse. Very soon prices of many food items are going to shoot up and vanish
from shelves. Drought will accentuate heat wave. All indicators point to an
unprecedented temperature rise, and this will also lead to forest fires. As things
stand even evergreen western ghats are no longer safe.
Is India, that is Bharat, prepared? Or is hindutva going to fall for well laid traps of castetva and waste time? One of the pernicious castetva snare is feeling of grand -an entitled place in the universe, the arrogance that see people as expendable meanwhile cunningly espousing high morals as distraction. If hindutva is working this template then they are digging their own grave or, to be hindutva appropriate, lighting their own pyre. Nature has already sent warning signs. Ignore it at your own peril.
