India that is Bharat-glorious country of the past is in the news for all the wrong reasons. If we open a page of any newspaper, watch any news channel what do we see? Mayhem, killing, lynching, rape, acid attacks, religious intolerance; you name it. Is there space for sanity? Have we turned our backs away from civilization? Have we taken leave of our senses? My heart aches and cries for my motherland. My heart feels for the millions of my hungry and thirsty brethren, but I have no one to turn to. It’s a dead end.
Hardly have the wounds of demonetisation healed, here comes another salvo from the government of the day – GST, goods and services tax. And they shout from the top of their voices; it is for your good, prices are going to come down, there is going to be just one tax for the whole of the country. But has anyone stopped to explain how the hungry are going to be fed? The same thing was said during demonetisation. There is going to be end of black money, hoarding, and moneys from Swiss Bank accounts will come back. There’s going to be smile on the faces of hungry millions. Have any of these things happened?
Recently I came across a post from one Gen. Prakash Katoch and this post gave me some sleepless nights. So I am going to reproduce it verbatim. “My problem with what’s happening in the country:- is not BJP and Congress or JNU and anti-nationalism or Jats and reservation or Hindu Extremism and Muslim Extremism or Beef Ban and Porn Ban or Kejriwal and Modi or Ravish and that ‘India wants to know’ guys…. My problem is our mind space being occupied with futile, useless fruitless, negative, regressive thinking….
In an age when this country should be thinking of inventions and ideas, we are discussing subjects mentioned above…. Why isn’t the government and media talking about it? Why the subject of debate is not development? Why isn’t RSS talking about it? Why isn’t every Hindu talking about? Why aren’t Muslims talking about it? Why the news channels aren’t focusing on it? Why Indians on Facebook not discussing it? Or spreading that idea to the world? Saffron or Green, Beef or Chicken, Porn or Sanskari channels, Temples or Mosques, Jats or Kashmiris aren’t tools of development. These subjects of conversations are Anti Development. And anything that’s antidevelopment is anti-national…at least for me…..
I want to see my India look better than Switzerland…. I want my India to do better than the US in the Olympics…. I want to see my India more civilized than the most civilized country in this world…. I want my India to be more innovative than Japan…. I want my India to be more safe for women than Copenhagen, Denmark…. I want my India to be more open minded than Canada….I want my India to be better than what it is today…. And not worse…. And that can only happen when we start thinking productive…. Else we will all be wasting time doing something that is useless, futile and infertile.”
Yes, that is the India I want to see today. An India where brothers whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, whether they live in Kanyakumari or Kashmir, whether the colour of their skin is black or white will live, walk, talk or eat like brothers-sons.
