I am not a Politics Person, I have never been interested. Now I know the reason behind that. If you hold an opinion about politicos or any politician you need to either be very dumb who can be manipulated by public opinions or should be very smart with great knowledge of Indian politics and history. I realized this when I witnessed a great debate in office today.
The topic which started with is Narendra Modi a fit candidate for India, went a long way to is India actually Secular and ended with a doubt on the equality issues of the country. I was very proud of being a part of this generation, I always believed that our generation is going to make a big impact. But is it doing anything other than being manipulated by the preceding generations?
The social media especially twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp has made us lame. When was the last time we chose to talk to learned men and get the real fact based information instead of searching a hash tag on the web or google - ing it? Our basics our hollow, be it politics, history or any thing. This is what I realized in the debate where a friend and me were for Modi and a senior reporter against him.
This is when we realized that how non secular and religion biased we were as somewhere down the line we do have a Hindu Muslim bias in our hearts though we sailing in the modern era. We said yes to Modi for development, he said for Hitler ism. We said yes to Modi for Unity, he laughed and said seriously? Unity among Hindus not Indian, right? We said yes to Modi for Modernization, he said you might even have to get ready to wear Burkhas now that the Hindutva Wadi Rule may start. If supporting Congress is the fear of getting raped, supporting BJP is fear of losing freedom.
When we said Modi will keep everyone equal and finish the reservation we have to bear as youth in college admissions, jobs and everywhere. He replied if you are so fed up of the biased system in 50 years, imagine what they have gone through for 5000 years. We said why should we pay for what happened in the past, he replied why did they pay for no misdeeds at all. We said that reservation is making people misuse it, he just asked a small question, Aren't you misusing not being a backward by treating your maids and toilet cleaners badly even now? We said it hardly happens in the cities, he replied go to villages where they cannot still draw water from the same well, pray to God just from the steps of a temple and have no right to education, and trust me women there are villages like these. You may ask for equality in your fancy city only when you get it applied in those downtrodden villages.
When we said neither is Congress doing anything for the country, then what should we chose? He replied that is the essence of politics, the one playing do not suffer. The only ones suffering are the ones being played and they are the common ones.
When we said neither is Congress doing anything for the country, then what should we chose? He replied that is the essence of politics, the one playing do not suffer. The only ones suffering are the ones being played and they are the common ones.
This conversation made me think how hollow our decisions are, how soon we get manipulated and how narrow our minds were..
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