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Where is the country going? This has been a big question mark in my mind for several days. In which direction our hon’ble prime minister Shri Narendra Modi is taking our country.
The society is highly polarized and you do not need to look at people outside your home or other than who are in your vicinity as you interact and observe them. You can easily draw inference that they are highly skewed towards the superficial aspect of Hindutva and not the spiritual core of it.
Also, where there is intellectual depth in society, people cannot read and analyse things although more and more people are becoming graduates, even lots of Schedule Tribes but there is no quality in their education.
I think Arun Shourie is right that overall, the deterioration happened in Indian society.
What is the state of our Constitutional bodies such as Judiciary, Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation, and others? They have gone beyond the proverbial caged parrot and appear to be totally captured.
How democracy is going to work if constitutionally independent bodies are used by executives to serve their own purpose and that too brazenly without any restraint of any kind, this is hollowing our democracy.
No need to talk about our main stream media both electronic and print, they are working as if they are an extended arm of present dispensation barring few and it appears they are obliged to do so.
The way Modi’s man is openly spreading hate and using religion for their benefits is quite brazen and to my mind they are laying dynamites everywhere they are going.
Jai Bajrang Bali slogan in Karnataka election is the latest in their repertoire of punchlines and catchy statements.
Our country is so diverse and its society is pretty sophisticated. It will break with acts of violence, riots etc. etc. and no progress will happen if there is no harmony and unity amongst people.
This is also happening across the country although I am at a place called Banswara in south Rajasthan where such things are not happening but near about society seems to be quite skewed towards Hindutva.
If you specially see the Indian economy after demonetization, it is declining and it is hard to govern such a diverse country if there is a constant tension between state and centre in addition to the high voltage circuits, they are laying wherever they are going.
They are unabashed about what they are doing and do not have any shame in that, after all this now they are pushing the issue of Hindi in technical education and also otherwise.
The entire Dravidian movement is based on the language issue only.
The 200 million people are too much to be neglected and kept aside as sooner or later that thing will spill to the majority.
The people also are not aligned to their real issues of income,
jobs,inflation,education,health and casting their vote on the basis of religion and caste.
Few months back Bajrang Dal had taken a procession on a certain issue in my hometown but before reading the banner I asked the police personnel who was there with quite a large congregation of people regarding the issue for which the said procession is there, he is totally unaware about it.
So, there is a disconnect between the real issues and what is the political discourse in our country. Karnataka election is trying to bring back the same to the fore, Let us see what turns out.
At present society appears to be disintegrated and people cannot even sit together and democratically discuss the issues as ability to assimilate the other one is very less if non-existent and the same is being reflected in our parliament.
As a nation we are required to metamorphosize otherwise there is going to be large-scale discontent and we will go behind and can lose the gain of the last 30 years after 1990-91.
Still there is a time for Indian capital, the people before it is too late and our people have the huge capacity to bounce back since ages and that is what is required to resurrect the society.
Despite all the above I am an urban Indian.
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