गुजरात के सूरत स्थित तक्षशिला कॉम्प्लेक्स में २४ तारीख को शुक्रवार देर शाम लगी भीषण आग में वहाँ चल रहे कोचिंग क्लासेस में 21 बच्चों की मौत जबकि 18 लोग गंभीर रूप से घायल हैं. प्रत्यदर्शियों के मुताबिक 10 से ज्यादा बच्चे जान बचाने के लिए दूसरी और तीसरी मंजिल से नीचे कूद गए थे. इस हादसे का विडियो बहुत ही दर्दनाक था ऐसे अनेक हादसे जो इस देश में होते रहे है लेकिन हम कब अपने बच्चो को ऐसे हादसों से अपनी और अपने दोस्तों की जान बचाने की कला सिखाएंगे? हमने किताबी ज्ञान में ठूंस दिया बच्चों को लेकिन नहीं सिखा पा रहे है लाइफ स्किल. बच्चों को नहीं सिखा पाए डर पर काबू रख शांत मन से काम करना. असलियत में हमनें उन्हें समाज में चल रही रैट रेस का चूहा बना बना रखा हैं. बच्चों को नहीं सिखा पा रहे जीने का तरीका- खुश रहने का मंत्र ऐसे मुसीबत के समय एक लीडरशिप क्वालिटी.
विदेशों में जैसे जापान, न्यूजीलैंड, इसराइल, अमेरिका कई देशों में लाइफ सेविंग स्किल छोटे छोटे बच्चो को सिखाई जाती है. फायरफाइटिंग से जुड़े कर्मचारी और अधिकारी हर माह स्कूल आते है. बच्चों को सिखाया जाता है विपरीत परिस्थितियों में डर पर काबू रखते हुए कैसे एक्ट किया जाए. ह्यूमन चेन बनाकर कैसे एक-दूसरे की मदद की जाए. हेल्पिंग हेंड से लेकर खुद पर काबू रखना ताकि मदद पहुंचने तक आप खुद को बचाए रखें. आग लगने पर निचे लेट जाना और घिसरते हुए घुटनों के द्वारा आगे बढ़ना. जींस पेंट जैसे जड़ कपड़ो को उतार फेकना या उनकी मदद से रस्सी बनाकर उसे किसी दिवार या लोहे की खिड़की से बंधकर सुरक्षित निचे उतरना. किस तरह से कूदना. कूदते समय कीसी पाइप या खिड़की या सज्जे का सहारा लेना. जब पानी में डूबता है तो कैसे ज्यादा से ज्यादा समय तक अपने को बचाना.
जब भूकम्प आये तो कैसे अपनी रक्षा करना. इन आपदाओ और दुर्घटनाओं के साथ कैसे निपटे जिससे कम से कम नुकसान हो. हाल ही में भयानक “फानी तूफ़ान” को वैज्ञानिकों ने सही समय पर पहचान लिया सीएसआईआर की प्रयोगशालाओं तकनिकी की सहायता से और समय पर मोदी सरकार द्वारा १२ लाख लोगो को तुरंत वहां से हटा दिया गया अनेक लोगो की जान बच गई जिसकी विश्व ने मोदी सरकार की तारीफ़ की.
हर जगह पर सरकार से उम्मीद लगाना भी ठीक नहीं है जांच बैठाकर, कुछ मुआवजे बांटकर मामला ठंडे बस्ते में डाल दिया जाएगा. कुकुरमुत्ते की तरह उग आए कोचिंग संस्थान नहीं बदलनेवाले है न ही ऐसे हादसे पूरी तरह से रुकनेवाले है. उपाय एक ही है हमें अपने बच्चों को जो लाइफ सेविंग स्किल सिखानी होगी. जिस तरह से हम उनके करियर की चिंता करते है उसी तरह से इस तरह की विपरीत परिस्थितियों में बच्चों को कैसे निपटना, क्या करना क्या नहीं ये सिखाने की भी चिंता होनी चाहिए. याद रखिए जान है तो जहान है.
Gandhian thoughts and philosophies are inevitable for the people of India to understand the real and true Narendra Modi from the one caricatured by the dynast, tukde tukde gangs, Khan market gangs and the so called liberals who want to break India.
Gandhiji has said “Be the change that you want to see in the world”.
People who want to see the true and original Modi, a leader with abysmal virtues and values, abundant love for humanity and universal brotherhood, the man who is so committed to develop India and sab ka vikas than the development of one family and dynastic politics, people must bring change in them and only then they can see the truth in an unbiased manner.
Gandhiji said once that “A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes”
People would see the truth what they think and carry in their mind and not the real truth that exist in the universe. Therefore people from the minority community must unlearn all the negative propaganda and tutoring the party of the dynast and other tukde tukde gangs has done over several decades about BJP and Modi.
Like what Gandhiji said “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet”.
Only when people let the negative propaganda of the dynast and other tukde tukde gangs and punkah coolies of the dynast and khan market gangs to walk through the mind of people, they fail to see the beauty of real truth and its flavour and fragrance.
Modi is not just a human being but a divine spirit and a celestial gift to India. Fortunately BJP has the gift but time is up for Indians to own the gifted person and must make his ‘sab ka leader.
As Modi rightly said that he wants to win ‘sab ka vishwas’, people from the minority community also must reciprocate in equal measure with open mind. Unfortunately they were imprisoned by the dynastic parties by constantly feeding negativity, fear and insecurity to their life, if BJP and Modi ever win.
People of India have been living in peace and harmony since time immemorial. Diversity in culture, language and religious practices has been in existence for several centuries. Hinduism was the dominant cultural practice of India from the pre-historic times. The diversity in religious practices, culture, language etc., could live in harmony in India only because of the secular and tolerant nature of Hinduism.
Therefore no one earth has to fear Hinduism and especially the people of minority community. But congress party has successfully portrayed Hindus and Hinduism as villain and people from the minority community, especially the Christian and Muslims are the natural victims of Hindu upsurge. Certainly the regional parties like SP, BSP, DMK, JDS, TMC etc., also used the trick of causing fear among minority community to treat them as mere vote bank.
The recent speech of Modi to NDA members clearly evoked the feeling that Modi not only promote Gandhian thoughts but also live through Gandhian thoughts, especially the one “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”.
Greatness of Modi is simply because he live with a purpose and mission and never postpone his mission for tomorrow so that he can live another day.
Every cell of Modi resonate, dance and longs to fulfill the dreams of millions of people that India becomes a super power, a happy state to live where Ram and Rahim are equal partners in building New India, both have equal opportunity and right and both are equally proud of India.
Like what Gandhiji has rightly said “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”,
Modiji the great leader par human being always finds himself in serving India whereas most of the other politicians live to serve their family and dynasty at the expense of India. For them the power is to loot India, promote nepotism, culture of sycophancy and punkah coolie, sells negativity and hatred and divisive politics.
Unfortunately several people belong to minority community have fallen into the trap of the dynastic parties and were carried away by the falsehood sold by all those tukede tukede gangs.
The day has dawn the people of minority community must learn to embrace the universal truth – Modi, as Gandhi said “The future depends on what you do today”.
Only when the minority community learn to appreciate the larger truth today, they can build a happy and healthy life for them. Need of the hour is educational and economic development for the minority community and once that is achieved none of the dynastic parties and tukde tukde gangs can take them for a ride or fool them for ever.
The minority community must recognize the larger truth that Modi is sab ka Modi.
Like what Gandhiji said, “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty”.
Certainly the Khan Market gangs and some dynastic parties would try to amplify and magnify some unfortunate incidents in future as the universal occurrence in India to fear monger among minority community. People must verify the truth before they believe them because there are several negative elements are there to plant and propagate such negative incidents.
Trust Modi, love Modi, certainly own love and trust on the universal truth will never disappoint or defeat.
Let us make India a great land by rendering our unconditional support to Modi and perpetuate his good, corruption free, development centric, sab ka vikas oriented governance to everyone we meet in the street.
Let us isolate all the negative forces, dynastic parties and so called liberals who wants to break India. Let us follow our faith, let us believe and trust sab ka Modi.
India has won! I write this in a deep level of satisfaction that the BJP led NDA has won and is preparing to form the government for the next five years.
India is a diverse country. We have been taught for a long time that ‘unity in diversity’ is the biggest strength of India. However, this ideology has been used by most of the political parties for their electoral benefits. The word India or Hindustan was never used by the politicians to represent a country as a nation with strong cultural and spiritual unity. Political parties were always busy dividing India and Indians based on language, culture, geography, and the most important – caste. This is the first time in the history of India that majority of the voters have voted with oneness in mind – India. All the attempts of the political parties, except BJP, to divide Indians have been destroyed by the voters. We have several examples of divisive nature in all the left-leaning parties led by the Indian National Congress.
The divisive ideology started from the British who quickly learned that it is absolutely necessary to break India based on different parameters and unity among Indians is the biggest threat to the British. The best way they found to divide India is through education. British forced Indians to learn English in order to keep them competitive on the global level. On the other hand, it was easy for them to introduce their ideologies and divisive nature through English to every Indian. The first major attempt is the introduction of fake Aryan-Dravidian theory to Indians. Tamil Nadu is a live example of this division which is still suffering in dilemma over this ideology. There are many other parameters used by the British such as culture, language, etc. to divide Indians which acted as the ghee to the ‘divide and rule’ fire.
Diversity in ideologies is always welcome. In fact, India and Hinduism are known for their wide variety of ideological differences since Vedic times. However, the difference is that this diversity was never used to break India or Indians on any basis. The diversity was joyful. Now, there are thousands of political parties with their own divisive ideology. I remember a joke by Late. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalamji.
Devil – I will kill you.
He – You can kill me after you answer one question correctly.
Devil – I can answer any question.
He – Go across India and count the exact number of political parties in India.
Devil – *never came back*
It is also important to understand that this divisive nature of political parties has no base. It is the ideology that has been tested through trial and error method with one agenda – power.
This is the first time in the history of India that Narendra Modi led India has unified people. Hindus are happy, Muslims are happy, Hindi speaking people are happy, Kannada speaking people are happy, Jats in Haryana are happy, Lingayats in Karnataka are happy, the list goes on. This is also the first time in the history that a political party has asked for votes for development and India and not for the party or for their caste, religion, dynasty, culture, geography. This is the biggest change Modi govt has brought about.
We can also observe the suffering in silence of the leftists. Their only weapon of division has been destroyed forever. They have never fought elections with development or oneness as the agenda and the good news is ‘They will never be able to do that in future’.
Let me make one thing clear. I hoped and prayed that this scheme should backfire. I had even written an article on this same platform that the scheme will backfire on Congress. Now everyone, including some Congress insiders and sympathisers are agreeing that the scheme didn’t resonate with electorate enough (Congress Durbaaris agreeing this much is as close as they can get to the reality that the scheme backfired). But the reasons they are drawing for Nyay’s failure are not correct.
Many are saying people rejected the dole offered by Congress. The reasons they are drawing is neatly encapsulated in a tweet by one of my favorite authors Mr. Anand Ranganathan:
No sir. Indians didn’t reject the dole offered by Congress. In fact, Nyay WAS a game changer for Congress. The problem was their messaging. When you only have one ace up your sleeve the least you can do is to play it right. When Nyay was the only flagship scheme you were proposing the least Congress should have done is explain the idea in an attractive and comprehensible way. But Congress botched this basic thing spectacularly.
Rahul Gandhi, the alleged proponent of the scheme, never came up with same figure for the amount of dole in 2 consecutive rallies.
Sam Pitroda, the Guru of Pappu, asserted that tax will increase on middle class and they should not whine about it and be selfish. Contrast this with NDA finance minister Piyush Goyal who thanked middle class for their contribution in nation development.
Abhijit Banerjee, the economist who was consulted on this scheme by Congress, confirmed the tax increase on middle class and revealed that inflation will go to double digits as a consequence of this scheme.
P.Chidambaram, purportedly a front runner for Finance minister post in case of a UPA-3, guaranteed that tax won’t be increased but some subsidies will be scrapped without naming any of them.
If (2) and (3) angered the middle class (4) made the poor jittery. To control the damage done by these statements, Rahul Gandhi came up with an even more convoluted source of income for his pet scheme, the pockets of Anil Ambanis, Mehuk Choksis, Nirav Modis etc., without realizing that money belongs to Banks and not Government of India.
All these made the scheme a joke in the minds of the electorate. And hence all those proposing this scheme in turn became jokers in the eyes of the electorate. I sometimes wonder if the Congress had indeed consulted the world famous economists on this scheme and they had given a go ahead for this scheme, then why didn’t they elaborate more on the scheme in their manifesto. Either they never had a detailed plan in the first place or they didn’t want to disclose it like the paranoid startup founder fearing the theft of his billion dollar idea. If it is the latter, then a small advice to Congress. Any startup is 1% idea and 99% execution. If your idea is good enough to be stolen then it is a great validation of your idea. But if it is the former and Congress indeed didn’t have a detailed plan for implementation of the scheme, then you just have accept that electorate saw through your charade and hence didn’t risk bringing the most corrupt party in post Independent Indian history back to power.
To again borrow the lines of Mr. Anand Ranganathan, the credibility of Congress is lower than the water table level in Gurugram. This alone swung the votes against Congress in spite of arguably a biggest dole scheme. This is the only conclusion you can draw because if Indians were indeed against the doles then they should have punished the present government for the many doles they gave like the Ujwala, Swach Bharat toilets, patronizing sick PSU’s, PM Awaz scheme etc.
Everyone loves free lunch. You just have to show that you have the capability to offer one.
The British ruled their colonies ruthlessly and evidence of their loot and torture in India is widely available. During my childhood I always wondered how a handful of Britishers came to India as traders and managed to take over the country and then rule it for over 130 years under the banners of East India Company and the British Empire. It made me wonder how a country with 13 million people in 1806 controlled a country with over 200 million people. And that too using just over 150000 troops with just about 25000 British soldiers and officers.
Just imagine even if 1% of Indian population decided to unite and take up arms against the British then India could have easily raised an army of 2 million and destroyed the British footprint in India. But our princely states and regions were plagued with internal disputes and self-preservation. It is quite evident from the historical events that the British successfully exploited the fault lines by propagating Aryan vs Dravidian (without proof), accentuating caste based divisions, fueling religious fears and most importantly convincing the average Indian mind that India did not have a rich heritage and all good things came from outside. The obvious question in my mind was how did they do it?
They developed and controlled the Narrative.
The British effectively exploited India through their Narrative. They understood the power of information in a large place like the Indian Sub-Continent with so many different languages and customs. Given the fact that the East India Company was engaged in overseas trading it had access to the Elites (Kings, Queens, Nobles) and the local manufacturers or traders. This access enabled them to gather information, develop intelligence, suppress facts, propagate fiction as facts and most importantly develop Narrative to suit their political agenda and military strategy. This information arbitrage and control of narrative paid handsome dividends till the British exited India in 1947.
Exit of the British from India became inevitable after the WWII and the British wanted to withdraw as soon as possible. This created an unprecedented opportunity for the Indian Elites (Nobles, Businessmen, Bureaucrats, Politicians, and British friendly Intellectuals). They were close to the power centers in Delhi and other important cities like Calcutta (Kolkata), Madras (Chennai), and Bombay (Mumbai). They quickly realized that the common Indian who had not known real freedom had no clue what to expect after independence from the British rule.
Starting 15th August 1947 these Elites successfully stepped into the vacuum created by the British and took complete control of information distribution and narrative development. They essentially adopted the British approach to administration and legal framework. The British administrative rules and bureaucracy was focused on favoring the rulers and not the common people of India. This allowed the Elites to grab lands, business contracts, jobs and even admissions in premium institutes. Additionally, the British legal framework was designed to delay or deny justice to the local population and by continuing with it the Elites ensured that the common people couldn’t win even if they played a good game. The Elites also continued the policy of discrediting all things ancient or native Indian as it helped them in making common people feel inferior.
The control of Elites over information and narrative continued for decades and suddenly Internet changed the dynamics. Information access became simpler and the Elites could no longer control the distribution of information. Penetration & usage of Social Media has broken the backbone of Elites as they are finding it difficult to control the narrative. Ordinary citizens with subject matter knowledge are starting to challenge the Elite through well researched facts and call their bluff when the Elites try to spread half truths. Smart phones with cheap data are putting a lot more people on the information highway and for the first time they have the freedom to seek full information, develop a narrative, and broadcast a point of view without being dependent on a media organization.
For the first time in the history of Independent India, the Indian Elites are clueless about how to regain control over information and the narrative. It is frustrating them. It is making them desperate. It is making them angry. It is making them abusive. And it is leading them to create fear psychosis by shouting “Idea of India is in Danger”. In my opinion Idea of India is strong. It is fluid. It will evolve. The common citizens of India can collectively decide what the Idea of India is rather than a select few Elites sitting in their Ivory Towers.
Relevance of Elites is in danger as their control over information and narrative is fading away.
There was a TV debate on Times Now that I was watching about Pakistan being spooked by Prime Minister Modi getting a second term and one of the panelists, I didn’t bother to find out his name as he sounded just like all the other pseudo liberal panelists, who think that India is on the verge of becoming two nations as we had the audacity to elect Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, as our Member of Parliament whom they have already declared a terrorist, toed the Pakistan line by saying quite disparaging things about our democracy and its electorate.
I Am an advocate by profession and the first rule of criminal law is that a person is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty and the burden of proof lies on the state to argue the merits of its case. Here is a not so fun fact, our courts take ages to hear a case even if its a criminal case and please don’t take this as a critique on the efficacy of the Indian Judiciary as it is not. The fact is, there is massive understaffing and cases aren’t getting any lesser. But that’s a topic of discussion for another day. What we have to look for here is that, even though the alleged terrorist MP was charged about 10 years back, the state has failed to produce a single shred of evidence that she was actually a terrorist.
The case is still in trial and the prosecution has zero evidence to prove their case. Yet we are quick to label her. Because she said Godse is a patriot does she become a terrorist? Then what about Mr. Hasaan, who made him the first Hindu Terrorist? Is he not held accountable because it was demeaning Hinduism?
So in essence Rahul Gandhi, who is out on bail on various scam related cases and his brother in law, who is himself accused in several cases of misappropriation can be elected and India should be ok with that and there is no threat to the nation. Sonia Gandhi, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mayawati, Akhilesh, Didi and etal, who ask for votes on the basis of their blatant minority appeasement, fear psychosis and caste equations are not a threat to the everlasting peace that we Indians crave for?
People who shout Bharat Tere Tukde Honge are the poster boys of Indian liberalism? A person accused because of the color of her dress and the faith she follows, doesn’t deserve to be heard? Sometimes it is hard to understand their metric for evaluation. I mean they can’t openly advocate their Hindu hatred, I can understand that it would give their game away. But what I fail to fathom or accept is their hatred for this nation in the garb of their secularism. I might be a Modi hater or Modi Bhakt, but when it comes to the world I can’t put my politics above my nation.
The fear of communal violence, caste discrimination and minority appeasement are still there but India chose to rise above it. If the liberal gang can’t understand that then they are in for a rude shock. India voted as a country rising above these roadblocks kept in place by the elitist and dynastic political class so that we can prosper as a country. India united to rise above the political equations of the ruling class born with silver spoons to tell them the fear that made them tolerate them is no more. They chose to write their own destiny instead of waiting for doles meted out by the magnanimous supreme leaders from their golden thrones. The days of cronyism, nepotism and blatant corruption don’t buy votes anymore. Why else would the naked emperor run for a safe seat instead of staying at his family bastion?
So if the liberals think that India is becoming two nations please live in that bubble and if Pakistan is spooked by Modi, let them be. But don’t let them think that they can fool us by saying whatever they want to say on Hinduism and get away with it, because it is not so now. We are a very tolerant majority and we abide by our Dharma. We don’t need swords or guns or bombs to affirm our faith in our Dharma. But when you accuse a majority of being intolerant and ignorant in spite of its rich history then we shall not sit quiet.
So why is that liberals are as spooked as Pakistan and trying to fan the flames of hatred with even more vigour inspite of being shown up by the electorate of this country? It is because they believe in the maxim of repeat the lie as many times as you can and it becomes the truth. Here’s a newsflash for all of them. It doesn’t work anymore and it would only show them up even more.
But then again who can blame them? They do live in the same bubble that the loyal Congress and its ecosystem live in. If they can still keep Rahul Gandhi as their mascot so can the liberal gang talk absolute nonsense and think that they can get away with it. May be they still live in the world where they are the lords and we are the humble sheep. May be they don’t understand that India has risen beyond that and the majority aren’t afraid to flaunt their identity proudly without shame or fear. Let’s not give them an inch now. They are like the camel in that fable, who push the owner out if you give them an inch. Hindutva has lost enough of it’s culture to these so called pseudo secular liberals like the Congress and its ecosystem and off springs, the barbaric Islamic hordes of invaders who looted, raped, converted through torture and plundered and the Britishers, Portugese and the Spanish, who looked down upon us and taught us civility and culture through torture, inquisitions and conversions.
We still have a country with a myriad problems to solve and reach the destination as one of the global leaders. This is not the time to be resting under a false sense of security because the liberals are not going to rest until they tear us apart. Yes, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is an accused in a case of terror. But she is not yet declared a terrorist. Let’s understand that distinction. If Kasab was given the benefit of doubt and glorified after he was hung in spite of being part of a strategic plan to plant the seed of Hindu terror then I suppose we can wait till the court has pronounced its verdict in her case. Until then let’s respect the law and stop painting her as a terrorist before the court did so.
Once again for those with limited or no knowledge of the law, law doesn’t presume one’s guilt before it has the evidence to say so and it is inherent upon us to not judge a person based on news articles and Lutyens cabal sponsored rumours. If the law finds her guilty, then we all can condemn her but until then let’s hold our horses and treat her at least in the same humane way Ajmal Kasab, Burhan Wani and company, even after their guilt was proven and are dead for their Terrorist activities, were treated. Please try to look at her side of the story as till now she is the only alleged terror accused whose side of the story the media never tried to portray. So was Burhan Wani glorified because of his religion and Pragya Thakur demonised because of the colour of her wardrobe? These are the most pertinent questions we should all ask ourselves.
Truth shall always prevail and let us wait for the truth to come out before we all become defacto judges. There are a lot of murky details from the past which are now slowly seeing the light of the day and may be we shall now learn the conspiracy behind the Hindu terror created by the erstwhile elitists. Let the liberals shout out their lies from the rooftops while the real truth is slowly unraveled. Let them all remember the day when they just like their emperor have been naked and they didn’t bother looking down. Then again they might still roam naked without a care just like their emperor but let us not forget to distinguish between the lies and the truth. Let us remember the distinction between a terror accused and a Terrorist. Let us not pass judgement on the fate of a person just because the liberals say so. Finally let’s respect the people’s mandate and give Sadhvi Pragya Thakur the benefit of doubt all the accused deserve. Let’s not judge her as it’s her life that has been torn apart and there is still no evidence to back the State’s claim.
It is easy to foist false cases, torture the person into giving tutored confessions but it is not easy to prove it in the court of law. The court doesn’t take into cognizance confessions made to police. There is a very important reason that it doesn’t do so. As stated above confessions can be made by the accused during custodial torture to get away from the pain that is being inflicted by the officer in charge. She is a woman who donned the saffron rejecting material benefits at a very young age. Please let that sink in. For too long we have been okay with police excesses but in this day and age truth doesn’t take long to come out.
When we can make a martyr out of the person who was involved in the custodial torture of the person accused of alleged terror attacks, then I guess we can at least extend the basic courtesy of waiting for a judgement on Sadhvi Pragya Thakur’s guilt before we ourselves become the Judge, Jury and executioner and pronounce a verdict based on rhetoric and no proof or evidence.
So the real question is do we extend the courtesy of being humane or pass armchair judgement on the guilt of a person based on biased rhetoric? Remember many a lives were lost and great scientists jailed on the basis of botched up and falsified investigations. The loss to the nation was more than one can envision or imagine. Let us not make the same mistake. Until otherwise proven, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur is an accused in a terror plot and is innocent until proven guilty and her election as a Member of Parliament doesn’t mean the rise of Right Wing Hindu Extremism nor is the Second term of Prime Minister Shri Narendar Damodardas Modi an omen for a divisive India and there won’t be or ever will be two nations as propagated by Jinnah and being carried forward by the liberal brigade.
India is one and we have voted for Shri Modi because we want to write our destiny by ourselves and believe in the growth of a united and inclusive India of the past with no barriers of caste, creed or fear to hold us back. Rise in Hindutva is not a call for arms but a call for breaking the chains of shame foisted upon the Hindu majority and to practice their faith just like all other faiths, with pride. Rise in Hindutva is a call for the Hindu majority to learn the true history and feel the pain of the sacrifices our ancestors made so that our culture is not diminished or erased. And finally Rise in Hindutva is a call for all the people of this country to stand as one, shoulder to shoulder and participate in the growth of this country. The elites, the dynasts, the liberals and all of its ecosystem can grasp that and therefore they are worried about their future and have no other option but to shout naked from the rooftops, their cacophony of lies and build up fake narratives about Hindu Terror.
Hindutva is about Universal brotherhood and peace and it’s Dharma is more about transcending the material rather than fixating on other faiths. Hindutva’s tenets do not ever preach violence but in fact show us the repurcussions of violence. So it is indeed time for Hindus world over to shed their inhibitions about their faith and stop believing the manufactured lies to shame and demonise us and our culture. That is the true recognition Hindutva craves for, where our faith is not a matter for debate neither can it be demonised by building fake narratives and our only goal is to live in harmony with the world and the nature!
Who had imagined such a mandate? Even the best of the pollsters and psephologists failed to calibrate the intensity of the Modi wave in the country. My social media continues to be filled with posts the self-proclaimed harbingers of free speech today finding it absolutely exacting to accept the reality. Doesn’t your social media page looks the same? It just might be! As much fun it is, my view is limited to metro and tier 1 cities of India that has the highest social media adoption rates in the country.
So, what explains this phenomenon? If so many people are ranting against Modi then why did the country chose to re-elect BJP with an even better mandate in 2014? Firstly, there aren’t a lot of people who disapprove of Prime Minister Modi let alone the number of people who loathe Modi. For the sake of simplicity, I like to call these people the “loud minority“. Who are these people? They’re the people who make noise with a higher degree objective to create a fictitious image that a large population in India disapprove of Modi. They usually start with priming the people; they would frequently use terms such as “saffronisation”, “Hindu terror”, and “saffron terror” in most of their social media posts.
Interestingly, a little deeper look at their social media posts show something really interesting; the very same posts also somewhere use their favourite word from the dictionary (or a close variant of it) – secularism. They shy away from sharing concrete facts because philosophy is what they like to ride on. If they ever share facts, it would either be based on flimsy reasoning or would be a misleading metric that would layer their philosophy. My point is that they are primarily guided by their agenda. They mislead the ordinary citizen by creating a puffed image of existing in large numbers to amplify their appeal; therefore, the “loud minority”. In the build-up to this elections, all the representative forces of the loud minority came together to stop the Modi & Shah juggernaut.
They claim that minorities in India face an imminent threat; so the people should vote for anyone but not Modi. How ridiculous that argument really is! A little fact check and incidents from the past really is what this loud minority needs the most. Shri Prakash Jaiswal, a coal minister in the UPA 2, set off on a joyride to a Dalit home for a sleepover. He was accompanied by music and movie equipment, a stock of mineral water bottle, and brand new mattress and bed sheets to sleep. After watching Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, his entourage left the home at 2 A.M at night. This account was narrated by Patrick French in his book – India: an intimate biography of 1.2 million people.
The silent majority is with Modi
Let’s turn our attention to the other end, the “silent majority“. Simply, they’re the rest of the people; everyone but not the loud minority. They’re the honest hard working people of the country. Why one should be interested in them? They are toiling around in the overcrowded public transports of the country, they’re walking on the streets when someone spits Pan Masala on their feet (unintentionally, of course), they’re mostly living an ordinary life in which they have a stable employment opportunity, they’re the students studying in the most reputed universities of the country with a very anti-Nehruvian vision for the future of the Indian economy.
Let us be honest, some of them just might have lost their jobs as well. However, there is a unique thread that runs through them – “they’re all believers”. They’re continuously challenging themselves to make a better economic life for themselves and they demand a peaceful and stable environment to support their fledgling aspirations. They are the change agents that mark the inflexion of change of an outlook of the value, believes, and attitudes of the society. They don’t really make up the intelligentsia because they feel that they’re better as more participative than being argumentative. They feel irked to see a social media post by the loud minority of hate-mongering or a content-piece maligning the idea of the state. But they don’t have the time and willingness to respond to any of those essentially because they’re chasing their dreams (our go-getters). They’re gradually accepting that some people are ideologically coated. The emotions of these indoctrinated people override their own bounded rationality.
This subliminally primed “loud minority” have lost their ability to unlearn. They have grounded their feet too deep into theories of yesteryear with no intention to modify their reasoning of what is right and what is not. The “silent majority” loves democracy. They understand that their country needs them more on the day of voting than on the day when someone from the “loud minority” decided to vilify the state or their favourite leaders on social media.
This silent majority always, in every case, decided the fate of a nation.
Today, I can sleep comfortably knowing that our silent majority has ensured that our country is in the most progressive and safe hands. I want to congratulate every member of this silent majority and even the loud minority as “we” came together to elect the same person with an even better mandate.
Ever heard the term rationalism? That is precisely what seems to be missing, when I hear the words leftist, liberal and nationalist. These are the regressive people with pea sized intellects who have automatically assumed, all of human society is broadly classified into one of these three categories.
Ironically, the leaders of the leftist species of India today belong to the elite. They are accorded VIP status and are treated with a sense of entitlement. The left in India today has only two issues of importance to deal with 1) Secularism & 2) Intolerance and have completely failed as proven by the recently concluded general elections. These are the buzzwords of the lowest order for parties that have stooped so low, that they have completely lost their ideological base. Economic development and equality have lost their charm paving way for sectarian and identity politics based on religion and caste. The left will stoop down to any level in the name of appeasing the minority religious groups when ideally they are the ones who should be speaking against religiosity.
This is nothing short of a disaster in a pluralistic democracy like ours, and sends the wrong signal to these communities. Anybody who criticizes them is either a Sanghi or a Bhakt or a Gau Rakshak or belong to the chaddi gang. To these people, the mass exodus of Kahsmiri Hindus was not an issue neither is the banning of books like “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie. But, wait! What happened to freedom of expression? Well, this is what one should probably expect as their ideologies are not really relevant post the cold war era and they would go down to any level to stay relevant. The vestige ideology still remains only in a handful of countries and in the state of Kerala. On the one hand, they shout out on the unfortunate murders of intellectuals, while on the other, hailing the induction of Mother Teresa as a saint in the Vatican.
Liberals, an interesting class of species, claim to be liberal but, what they actually are is actually an enigma. They have the crisis of an identity. They side with the leftists on issues like feminism, subduing patriarchy, LGBT issues etc. While, these are lofty ideals, what they are short of is ideas. All that emerges of their events is cacophony and platitudinous rhetoric sans substance laden with euphemisms. I mean they expect the society to change overnight. They care more about a woman’s bra strap and the period blood on a sanitary pad more than issues like poverty and child labor in a country where a quarter of the population cannot afford a meal. They expect people not to judge them and let them be what they are, while not meting out the same treatment to others.
They even support regressive religious attitudes and use them for their convenience. Their heart beats for a Pakistani singer, who does not condemn terrorism emerging out of there, while completely ignoring the scores of talented people that end up nowhere in our own country. They sympathize with Pakistan for being a terror state, questioning India’s judgment in fighting cross border terrorism. To them a woman in a Burkha symbolizes empowerment, as it is her choice to wear it and banning the practice of instant triple talaq is a “blow to the pluralistic nature of Indian secular fabric”. Liberals today are the people who are the least liberal in their attitudes and ideas. They have placed themselves on a pedestal and have a condescending attitude towards people who adhere to traditional beliefs.They are convinced they are correct and all the others are wrong. My dissent is better than your dissent.
‘I am the only right person, how can you be right?’ No wonder, with such gross generalizations and closed mindsets, these people have lead to the emergence of an ideological fringe on the right end of the spectrum, all across the world. It is a global phenomenon, sweeping across continents from India to Austria and from the UK to the USA. The rise of the political right is imminent for the haphazard nature of liberalism and leftist cacophony. After all, who would allow their own countries to take in refugees, without proper checks and frisking. What about the rights and opinions of people killed by a few immigrants who carried out terror activities?
The pertinent question here is “why do leftists and liberals who are the only torch bearers of such human values not go to these places, where people are being persecuted and help them there?” This is a win win situation for all. The refugees can get rehabilitated in their own lands and can avoid persecution in the lands where they seek refuge. The leftists and liberals who are normally averse to Sanskritic literature, however, do invoke two quotes, when it is very convenient for them. “वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्” (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam= All the world is one family) and “अतिथिदेवो भव” (Athithidevo bhava= Guest is verily god). Such is their hypocrisy.
To an opposition of such glorious intellectual capabilities, we have the fringe followers of the ruling dispensation who are equally endowed with a similar intellectual acumen.The fringe nationalists are a class of species who get triggered for things as trivial as an MF Hussain’s painting or for an advertisement of Holi. To them these acts are verily threats to the age old Indian संस्कृति (tradition) & सभ्यता (culture). To them, Hindi is the only national language and India can unite only by conversing in that language. Cows are more sacred than human lives and cow excreta is medicine. Anybody who eats beef or criticizes the central government is anti-national.
While it is true that India still has a strong colonial hangover vis-a-vis its own indigenous traditions and the assault on them, this cannot be changed overnight. Making radical statements on killing the minorities even for petty issues, shows the insecurity of these people who are tarnishing the great values and ideals of this land which is home to the most tolerant ancient tradition and culture. The recklessness is even more palpable when candidates holding cabinet positions make irresponsible statements. This approach only breaches the confidence even of their own base and cadre while completely neutralizing any efforts to regain lost trust among minority groups.
To them criticizing even economic policies like demonetization and GST is a ploy of “anti-nationals” and “pseudo-seculars” who oppose reforms. In a country blessed with a very young demographic dividend with more than 60% of the population under 25, these above three classes species have hijacked the political discourse away from the pressing issues of the day. India lags behind in poverty, standards of living, education, health, agriculture, infrastructure, transportation etc. What is required today in the country is the rise of individuals who do not believe in any of these ideologies but rather an attitude which helps us move in a direction that transforms the life of a common man of this country.
The mainstream media unfortunately cannot be trusted to do this as it has become a pawn in the hands of Delhi’s champagne socialists, the Lutyens’ brigade and the people who r. Any source of information is coated according to the political biases of the media houses and their representatives.
There is an immediate need to shift the political discourse in the country away from religion, towards rational thinking and scientific reasoning. Our television programs should broadcast content that will enlighten people on the latest advancements in science and technology rather than on partisan hogwash. Our movies need to focus on the dearth of intellectualism and the need to revive it in its actual glory. Our youth lacks inspiration and have fallen prey to the glitz and glamour of Bollywood and Cricket stars. A society which has inherited Puranas, which contain conversations and debates, even with gods and demigods, has reduced itself to mere religiosity and dogma.
The ad-nauseam banal rhetoric of the various ideologies needs to be effectively countered and supported wherever necessary. It is a great injustice to ask people to follow any ideology as such. The masses of India know what they need and they do not need any unsolicited advice. To be a world leader of tomorrow, also means the natural and organic transformation of the attitudes of the commoner.The choice is ours, whether to come up with our own understanding of a situation or get swayed by emotions that are closest to our biases. Popular opinions need not be the right ones, at the same time; other contrasting opinions need not necessarily guarantee to be the right opinions either.
In the end I would like to end with a quote from one of India’s parliamentarians Shashi Tharoor from a TED talk “ The great success story of India, a country that so many learned scholars and journalists assumed would disintegrate, in the ’50s and ’60s, is that it managed to maintain consensus on how to survive without consensus.”
As an educator, I continue to remain dismayed by India’s poor standard of education that is a relic of the enslaving British era. This system was established by slave masters to stunt & brainwash their slave population for tightening the British grip on Indians. So, here is my suggestion to you for replacing our clerk-manufacturing Macaulayan education with a Gurukul-like system to create entrepreneurs & responsible citizens. Hopefully, this system should be implemented in a systematic & phased manner over a 15-year-period.
General Curriculum
1. LEVEL 1 (AGE 5)
1.1. Language—State: Alphabet, Reading.
1.2. Mathematics: Numbers, Counting.
1.3. General Knowledge: Things around us.
1.4. History & Culture: State history & culture, Expected manners.
1.5. Art & Craft: Painting, Clay Modelling.
1.6. Martial Arts: Defense Level 1.
2. LEVEL 2 (AGE 6)
2.1. Language—State: Reading, Comprehension.
2.2. Mathematics: Addition.
2.3. General Knowledge: Things around us.
2.4. History & Culture: State history & culture, Expected manners.
2.5. Art & Craft: Paper Cutting, Wood Modelling.
2.6. Martial Arts: Defense Level 2.
3. LEVEL 3 (AGE 7)
3.1. Language—State: Comprehension, Writing.
3.2. Language—National: Alphabet, Reading.
3.3. Mathematics: Subtraction.
3.4. General Knowledge: Things around us.
3.5. History & Culture: Indian history & culture, Expected manners.
3.6. Art & Craft: Drawing, Music.
3.7. Martial Arts: Defense Level 3.
4. LEVEL 4 (AGE 8)
4.1. Language—State: Writing, Composition.
4.2. Language—National: Reading, Comprehension.
4.3. Mathematics: Multiplication, Time.
4.4. General Knowledge: How things around us work.
4.5. History & Culture: Indian history & culture, Expected manners.
4.6. Art & Craft: Dance.
4.7. Martial Arts: Defense Level 4.
5. LEVEL 5 (AGE 9)
5.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
5.2. Language—National: Comprehension, Writing.
5.3. Language—International: Alphabet, Reading.
5.4. Mathematics: Division, Measurements.
5.5. General Knowledge: How things around us work.
5.6. History & Culture: International history & culture, Expected manners.
5.7. Life Skills: Swimming, Cooking.
5.8. Martial Arts: Defense Level 5.
6. LEVEL 6 (AGE 10)
6.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
6.2. Language—National: Writing, Composition.
6.3. Language—International: Reading, Comprehension.
6.4. Mathematics: Fractions, Ratios & Proportions.
6.5. General Knowledge: How things around us work.
6.6. History & Culture: International history & culture, Expected manners.
6.7. Life Skills: Survival Training.
6.8. Martial Arts: Defense Level 6.
7. LEVEL 7 (AGE 11)
7.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
7.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
7.3. Language—International: Comprehension, Writing.
7.4. Mathematics: Geometry.
7.5. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, & State-level.
7.6. Civics & Citizenry: Ethics, Morality, Rights & Duties of Citizens at Local-level & State-level.
7.7. Life Skills: Agriculture.
7.8. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
8. LEVEL 8 (AGE 12)
8.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
8.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
8.3. Language—International: Writing, Composition.
8.4. Mathematics: Analytical Reasoning.
8.5. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, & State-level.
8.6. Civics & Citizenry: Ethics, Morality, Rights & Duties of Citizens at National-level & International-level.
8.7. Life Skills: Animal Husbandry.
8.8. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
9. LEVEL 9 (AGE 13)
9.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
9.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
9.3. Language—International: Literature & Communication.
9.4. Finance: Money, Saving & Investing.
9.5. Accounting: Costing.
9.6. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, State-level, & National-level.
9.7. Civics & Citizenry: Constitution & Law.
9.8. Life Skills: Home Tailoring, Home Carpentry.
9.9. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
10. LEVEL 10 (AGE 14)
10.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
10.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
10.3. Language—International: Literature & Communication.
10.4. Finance: Entrepreneurship.
10.5. Accounting: Books of Accounts.
10.6. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, State-level, & National-level.
10.7. Civics & Citizenry: Constitution & Law.
10.8. Life Skills: Home Construction.
10.9. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
11. LEVEL 11 (AGE 15)
11.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
11.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
11.3. Language—International: Literature & Communication. 11.4. Economics: Microeconomics.
11.5. Politics: History of Panchayat-level & State-level politics .
11.6. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, State-level, National-level & International-level.
11.7. Civics & Citizenry: Marriage & Parenting.
11.8. Life Skills: Home Plumbing, Home Electricals.
11.9. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
12. LEVEL 12 (AGE 16)
12.1. Language—State: Literature & Communication.
12.2. Language—National: Literature & Communication.
12.3. Language—International: Literature & Communication.
12.4. Economics: Macroeconomics.
12.5. Politics: History of National-level & International-level politics.
12.6. Current Affairs: Happenings at Street-level, Town-level, District-level, State-level, National-level & International-level.
12.7. Civics & Citizenry: Marriage & Parenting.
12.8. Life Skills: Home Ayurveda.
12.9. Martial Arts: Yoga & Healing.
13. Cadet Training (Age 17)
Compulsory military training, followed by registration of best performers in the Indian Territorial Army. Volunteers for a military career may be selected here.
Underperformers may be detained for training for another year.
14. University Onboarding* Connecting programme for preferred Graduate degree.
15. Graduate Level* 50% Classroom Theory & 50% Field Training.
16. Post-Graduate Level* 25% Classroom Theory & 75% Field Training.
17. Doctoral Level* 100% Field Research.
18. Post-Doctoral Level* 100% Theoretical/ Field Research.
* Private funding with or without government sponsorships.
Education Boards & Funding
The current plethora of education boards may be merged into just 4:
1. Indian School Education Board—to design & deliver school education in 2 grades: (a) Standard curriculum for average Indian students (b) Advanced curriculum for better-than-average Indian students. While the grades (i.e., content mix) are different, the quality (i.e., zero defects) is the same. Free & compulsory education with 100% funding by central government. 2. Special School Education Board—to design & deliver school education in 2 grades: (a) for children with special needs (b) for juvenile convicts. Free & compulsory education with 100% funding by central government. 3. Board of University Education Standards—to guide & audit the delivery of higher education from University Onboarding to Post-Doctoral Level. Privately funded education with central government sponsorship of: (a) 50% for territorial army registrants (b) 100% for military recruits. University education is a privilege, not a right. Only the first 2 children per family are eligible for any government funding. Convicted persons are ineligible for any sponsorship whatsoever. 4. Board of Human Resource Research & Development—to research, support & enhance the national wealth generation process by tracking the post-education careers (entrepreneurship or employment) of individual citizens. Under this Board, there should be 2 agencies: (a) Entrepreneurship Development Centres (b) Employment Management Centres. (See details below)
Note: All these Boards should annually audit the schools/ universities under their jurisdiction for standards maintenance. If deviations are found, the head of the institution should be warned once & kept under probation for 1 year. If no improvement after 1 year: (a) the school principal should be terminated (with the cause duly documented); (b) the private university should be derecognised. The educational performance of many students & the careers of many teachers far outweigh the career of 1 bad institutional head.
Infrastructure & Scheduling
School education should be free of cost to students & 100% funded by the central government, so infrastructure is to be also commensurately of the best standards & quality.
Each school should have a qualified “student counsellor” who is readily accessible to students.
Each level of class should have a dedicated “class teacher” who will cover all subjects of that level. This teacher is predominantly responsible for all the students under their care. This strengthens the bonding between guru & shishyas.
For health reasons, students should sit on the classroom floor (on a cotton mat carried by themselves) with individualised short desks per student. In labs, students should stand & perform activities.
Theory classes & labs should be alternated, so students don’t remain seated for more than 1 hour.
Students should not learn for more than 6 hours per day at school. Daily sessions should start at 7 AM & end at 1 PM with one short recess in the middle. All students should compulsorily have free lunch at school to negate economic inequalities. After lunch, students should clean the entire school & participate in (age-appropriate) school maintenance activities under their respective class teachers’ supervision until 3 PM. This activity builds discipline & character.
All academic years should be aligned to India’s biannual Rabi & Kharif crop cultivation for enabling rural students to support their parents in agricultural activities. Starting (non-remunerative) work early in life inculcates discipline & character in students. The Western concept of “child labour” does not apply.
Uniforms & Textbooks
Again, to negate economic inequalities, all students should be uniformed. This uniform clothing should be made of natural fibres suited to the local climate. The tailoring of these uniforms should also suit India’s culture & climate. So, across India, boys should wear comfortable kurta-pajamas; girls should wear salwar-kameez. An additional jacket may be worn during cold winters. No shoes, but comfortable sandals with straps (which should be left outside the classroom neatly in a rack).
These uniforms, sitting mat, & backpacks (to carry textbooks) should be provided free of cost by the school.
Textbooks & other learning material should be provided by the school free of cost. Textbooks should be correctly designed using instructional designers, not just subject matter experts. The pages should be printed in multi-colour with illustrative images for easy learning.
Teacher’s Salary
Teacher salary increases towards the lower class levels to match with teacher’s effort.
Typically, nursery-level students depend much more on their teacher than higher-level students. So, it is well-known that handling nursery students is much more challenging than teaching higher levels. The higher the level of the class, the lesser is the dependency of the student on the teacher, & so lesser the effort of the teacher. So, a Level-1 class teacher should be paid much more than her counterpart in a higher class. The salary difference between adjacent levels should be 10% (i.e., Level 1 teacher earns nearly 3 times more than her Level 12 counterpart, commensurate with her teaching effort).
As a logical consequence, promotion of teachers should be towards the lower levels of the classes to increase the challenge of teaching.
This way, the most skilled teachers will handle the least skilled students to lay the strongest educational foundation for citizens.
Recruiting & Promoting Teachers
An aspiring superpower-nation should invest significantly in her citizens’ early education. So, a teacher-student ratio of 12 should be strictly maintained. For this, highly qualified & skilled educators (specialising in teaching, not mere subject-matter expertise) must be recruited through a rigorous National Teachers Recruitment Exam with 12 separate tests for the 12 level of classes.
This is a test of teaching skill for specific level of learners, not just subject knowledge. Teachers should be well-versed in handling all subjects of their chosen level of class. As the future of India will be in the hands of those who succeed in this exam, the passing criteria should be based purely on merit.
Practising teachers who wish to get promoted (to a lower-level class) should take this centralised entrance exam for the target class level. However, passing this exam is not required for privately funded university professors.
Admitting Students
For admitting students at Level 1, a scientifically designed Standardised Student Admission Test needs to be administered to all Indian children at the age of 5. This IQ test should identify: (a) Above-average children (b) Average children (c) Children with special needs. Based on the result, children may be admitted to the appropriate school to ensure they are neither overburdened nor under-challenged.
While it is the duty of individual families to bring their children for testing, the local education officials are also responsible for ensuring no child is left behind. For this, the officials may be notified from a national registry of citizenship about children reaching education age in their area of jurisdiction. This duty is similar to vaccination camps conducted by health officials.
Evaluating Student Performance
While individual class teachers may conduct formative tests as they deem fit for their students, there should not be any summative annual exams for the sake of promoting a child to the next level. Given the low teacher-student ratio, it is the duty of each teacher to ensure all their pupils learn properly (like a Gurukul).
Class teachers should maintain separate files for individual students & track their progress to notify the parents regularly. At the end of each academic year, the class teacher should submit a performance appraisal report (in a standardised format) to the school & the parents about each student’s learning status.
Evaluating Teacher Performance
The average of all performances of the students in a class (as evidenced by the class teacher’s reports) is the teacher’s performance. Additional points should be given to teachers who nurture talent & prodigies.
Underperforming teachers should be warned by the principal once and kept under probation for 1 academic year. If there is no improvement after 1 year, the teacher should be terminated (with the cause duly documented). The educational performance of many students outweigh the career of 1 bad teacher.
Post-Education Followup
After completing Level 12 & successfully finishing the mandatory military training, many students may choose to take up entrepreneurship. Others may proceed to university studies & opt for employment. So, as mentioned earlier, the 2 agencies under the Board of HR R&D should enable citizens’ post-education careers as follows:
1. Entrepreneurship Development Centres—to track & support entrepreneurs, startups, self-employed professionals, small-business owners, et al, in availing bank loans, angel investments, & business guidance. Tax collection agencies may set up counters in these centres to enable these entrepreneurs file tax returns conveniently.
2. Employment Management Centres—to track & support salaried employees in finding jobs, legal advice, & career guidance. Income tax could also be received in these centres.
Through these 2 agencies (spread nationwide in each district & present online), the unemployment status of Indians can be tracked in real time. This way, the national economy is also formalised.
Note of Caution
State & Central governments should not distract & burden teachers with other government duties such as election support, census surveying, health camps, etc. Teachers should be left alone to teach & be held fully accountable for that specialised & critical nation-building duty only.
Let’s end this 150-year-old Pinkerton syndrome in education. Let’s restore India to her former glory.
Jai Hind!
The return of NDA was predicted by most of the exit polls and the general opinion everywhere was that a Modi Sarkar 2.0 would mostly be inevitable on 23rd May. However, what was unpredictable and what kept the hopes alive for opposition parties was whether or not BJP would get a majority on its own. They were all depending on a weak BJP to happen, whereafter they could arrange themselves and manage to get the required numbers with the hopes of forming a coalition government. But things turned the other way around and the BJP hit a jackpot.
Opposition parties, several media outlets and those who didn’t vote for the BJP are still unable to grasp why India voted this way! Why a majority again! I have a simple theory to help them and anyone who wishes to make sense of this and it is- ‘Voters chose order over chaos.’
I am an Indian millennial who grew up in the 90’s and the 2000’s. For most part of my life, I have seen coalition governments ruling this country. I have traveled accross a fair length and breadth of this country and grew up in several states. I have observed how people vote during elections in different states. And what I have understood with these observations is that the Indian voters are highly averse to coalition governments, especially while voting for General Elections. They prefer “Strong Leadership” over “Shared Leadership” at centre. Or at this moment, “Leadership” over “Chaos”. This became a silent factor which pushed BJP beyond the magic mark of 272 once again. The opposition parties and especially the Left may not be able to make sense of this phenomenon. But People voting overwhelmingly for BJP to ensure a majority for them makes complete sense to me and here are my reasons as to why -:
1. How India has actually chosen its Prime Ministers.
Even though we have a Parliamentary system, we Indians throughout history have voted mostly like it’s a presidential one, thereby indirectly electing our Prime Minister by Investing faith in his party’s candidates. Meaning, we have voted more by looking at the leader and less at the party or the individual candidate. One of the main reasons why Congress stayed in power for so long in India is because people believed in the leadership of Nehru-Gandhi family. They believed that these leaders- Nehru, Indira and Rajiv, could keep their party together as well as the government. Without them, people felt that both the party and the government would be ‘directionless’. (Ask anybody who voted for BJP or NDA in 1999 elections. They voted mostly because they believed that Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee would bring order and stability at centre and not necessarily because they believed in the ideologies of any of the political parties). Which is what brings me to…
… 2. The political situation of 1990’s.
The 90s were a period of high political instability. We saw most number of Prime Ministers being elected and resigning in this decade and India was going through a severe political and economic crisis, which coincided with the absence of a strong leader at Centre to take charge of the situation. Coalitions after coalitions were crumbling and the nation felt ‘directionless’. Experiments like ‘Third Front’ emerged where leaders like Shri Chandra Shekhar, Shri Deve Gowda and Shri I. K. Gujral served as our PMs and tried to fill the gap, only to resign after a few months. Such lack of direction and volatility had also been experienced by people during the reign of Janta Party post the Emergency, which is why Indira Gandhi came back stronger in 1980. (It was people chosing leadership over chaos). All these events left a very bad impression about coalition and third front politics in the minds of Indian people in the 90’s.
3. The Coalition politics from 1999-2014.
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government was the first non-Congress govt to complete a full term and it was a coalition government. It assured people that coalitions can work if held together by ‘strong leadership‘. In fact, as mentioned previously, people had handed over the mandate to NDA in 1999 mostly because of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee with a hope that he can instill ‘order‘ at the Centre. Coalition did not seem such a bad thing afterall. And this trend continued with UPA 1 of Mr. Manmohan Singh, until it started to appear that perhaps Mr. Singh does not wield the actual powers.
People started to perceive him more as a weak leader who could not standup to his party leadership and alliance partners. Especially during UPA 2, the period between 2009-2014, which was filled with corruption scams of unbelievable proportions done mostly by alliance partners of Congress, PM Manmohan Singh was not able to take any ‘decisive’ actions. In fact, the whole reign of UPA 2 was marked with ‘indicisiveness’ and ‘lack of intent’ to act by PM Manmohan Singh, whether it was towards Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks or towards his own alliance partners for the alleged corruption scandals. It is mainly this period that cemented the notion in people’s mind that coalitions are a bad form of governance as the compulsions of coalitions dilute the strength of central leadership.
The chapters of coalition history of India reminds people more of the chaos caused by Janta Party in the late 70’s, the crisis filled 90s and the corruption drenched UPA 2. And all these periods lacked any strong leadership at Centre. These periods have left people with more of bad memories in their minds. Whereas in those periods where India had a formidable leadership, whether in the form of Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, PVN Rao or Vajpayee, people were assured about the stability and direction in which the country was headed to.
This is of course difficult to be understood by ‘vote for the best person in your constituency and not for Modi’ gang and the Left. But the voters ensuring a majority once again for Modi was just their way of chosing ‘order’ over ‘chaos’. They ensured a majority for Modi because they wanted a strong Modi leading a strong Modi Sarkar. And not a ‘khichdi‘sarkar with a dozen Prime Ministers swearing in and resigning successively one after the other over a period of months.
