Imagine what has been interrupted.
Imagine what has been disrupted.
That the entire eco-system has no hesitation to set fire to this country, go to any length to divide it, because they believe they’ve been deprived of what is rightfully theirs & held once, so firmly.
The question arises again & again-
What exactly is at stake for them?
What exactly is the deal & with whom ?
Did they really believe that their position was so secure, with people eating out of their hands that they would continue to hold on infinitely in a democracy?
Were we even a democracy in the first place or just a sham wrapped around a Family?
This Family & its courtiers, always in power or close to it, has shown us over the past 7yrs that it has no vision,no understanding of our aspirations,nothing to offer except anarchy & violence.
With decades of unlimited power, cocooned lifestyles, they no longer feel the pulse of this nation.
Seriously, have they been given to believe that they will return to power on the ‘sudden removal’ of the Prime Minister ?
If that was to happen do they realise this country would go after them & also
demand an account of every stolen rupee, a lifestyle built on our back. Seek retribution for generations deprived of a future, died of malnutrition, lack of medical care, infrastructure, schools,
& that complicit silence as we were killed in regular terror attacks…. deals with enemy countries…
This is what we had thought-
But the reality is-
It is they who are fortunate that he is in the way - between them & our anger.
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Lately, there has been a lot of talk on Social Media on those who left, on those who wish to leave, but little on those who are considering a return…
When some of our friends & family left to make a life overseas through the 70s-90s - a time of acute shortages & that License Raj which broke the spirit of entrepreneurship - we didn’t, because if truth be told, we hadn’t in hand the right opportunity to take the plunge.
However the possibility was seriously examined for the first time during the UPA years when governance & State seem to crumble before our eyes, brazen skull-numbing corruption hit you in the face on a daily basis,
Then there is a breed who gladly removes his own langot to cover up the ugliness of our colonial past only to reveal a sorry appendage of perhaps collaborator forefathers or worse,a hangdog appeal to Old Masters for a pat on the head. Good boy ! Go fetch.
Nothing can beat the deracinated one who goes gaga-googoo over Heads of Govt. who attend Midnight Mass, Eid Milans, Sunday Breakfasts, Gurudwaras & what not but throw a apoplectic fit if a Hindu PM of a Hindu majority country worships in a temple …
Every cracker in the NCR had a message that echoed through the country ! #Diwali2021
How did the State administrations & Courts, eager in their almost evangelical zeal, conclude that a cracker ban on Diwali was the solution to our pollution problems?
Is it that they don’t understand the problem at all?
Or is that they have no idea how to handle it?
Or was it simply a case of taking for granted a compliant community because all else has failed?
What seems even more surprising, is that they actually believed people would quietly comply on this very important festival & the ban could be enforced with a ratio of 150 policemen to a 100,000 Indians.
Even in the best of times the Indian schooling system is not remotely sensitive to a child’s needs, education or it’s aspirations.
Perhaps that one odd exceptional teacher could brighten a schooling experience but by & large the system is one of rote & elimination not education
To now sensitise these very educationists who if one may say, find it a challenge to handle even the conventional two genders to
“aspects of gender diversity keeping gender-nonconforming and transgender children at centre stage.” would be simply an exercise on paper,
whimsical at best, unrelated to our reality when so much more needs urgent looking into.
Out dated syllabus.
Innovative & interesting teaching methods. #NCERT
~Imagine if our city had announced that this year for Diwali they wanted you & your family to come onto your threshold, balcony, terrace or garden to enjoy a fireworks display – soundless & green whatever that means between 8-9 pm in celebration of Diwali.
There would have been no mention of an insulting ban, no smug reproach but only a very novel, enticing offer.
Yes, my children would have burst their sparklers, anaar, chakris after our Puja and yes with our diyas lit, our mithai exchanged wouldn’t we have for that one hour
put everything on hold & come out to enjoy our very important festival ?
Calling out to friends & neighbours from across doorways, balconies & terraces to enjoy the spectacle.
This community highlight would slowly grow to be that display which year after year with our enthusiasm