By the time you wish that the horror is over, a new stone stumbles on your face. An individual from the optimum bourgeoisie, bigoted by ultra right wing ideology will use his keyboard as per his flimsy wishes to tarnish the delicate fiber of our diverse society. Surely, he does not read Panchjanya, nor follows twitter handle of radical Muslim daily. But the very fact that his insensible comments draw a handful of crowd creates a situation to know who these people are in reality.
He must be the same person like you and me. He may wear the same dress, might have gone through the same school and might have sung the same national song thousands of time in his school. But the only difference is that he has acquired that extra half knowledge for which our ancestors have cautioned us.
So where did this guy get his training especially if he does not attend nonsecular collegium or have that wish to research something about our society. Normally this idle fellow is the byproduct of neo-orthodox society. He is impacted by Goebbelsian political class and self-acclaimed gatekeepers of ideal society who bombards waves of heated neutrinos in order to capture his imagination.
He believes in them not because they have successfully implanted the nuclear of hatred and intolerance. But very sadly because as Edmund Burkey says “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is the fact that he can’t comprehend as why intellectuals in India are returning their dignified awards. Why are they undermining the highest achievement given by the state elected by the people of this country? And why they are called as intellectuals?
They are called as intellectuals because time and again they have read about stories of holocaust targeted by majority towards the minority. They are intellectuals because they know about the inner character of the leaders and his ambition based upon precedents of leaders who have ruined the mankind based upon that divine theory of kingship. They are called intellectuals because they do not form the opinion based on the previous election but surely on the basis of the history of this great diverse country.
Every country preserves its cultural and historical heritage not because a handful of visitors both native and foreign should visit and cherish it. But because the very identity of the society, the very ethos of greatness and patriotism are dependent upon it. In that context, it becomes the responsibility of every stakeholder to preserve and sustain its historical institution, cultural forums and the ideas of a secular state in its true form.
If you will dig the history of our neighboring countries or for that matter history of South East Asia or Arabian land, you will find that these countries got the freedom around the same time as that of India. But if you look at the last five-six decades then you will realize that except India most of these countries have been the victim of tyrant autocratic government. They could not sustain democracy because of the fact that their founding fathers did not vehemently believed in the democratic system.
For e.g. Pakistan could not sustain its democracy because its founding father believed in the state based on religion. A different but equally similar was the case with Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka. People of these countries could not take a breath of relief because of continuous violation of rights and persecution. Whole of South East Asia is full of the examples of autocratic government whether it is Shinawatra of Thailand, Pol Pot of Cambodia, Junta of Myanmar and much more. It is better not to talk about Arabian land because democracy is the word which they have never believed in.
The result of such tyrant system is simply continuous wars, a gross violation of human rights, large-scale migration, and refugee crisis. It also includes the grave anarchy, chaos, persecution of minorities based on ethnic, cultural and religious bigotry. Humanity simply cannot prosper in this situation. Just imagine government banning the internet, asking to cut your hand for a simple violation, or in a case of girls, rupturing the hymen of adult female long before marriage so that she can’t enjoy pleasure or beheading just for expressing your ideas.
At this time, it may look to be a vague idea but surely recent steps look to be the first of the steps towards achieving these objectives. It may not happen during the tenure of this government but it will surely add to the confidence of next autocratic government whoever it may be whenever it might be. The fundamentalist regimes of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have lived to these bigoted inhuman ideas and people have supported them. They did not support because they liked those ideas but from their birth till now, they did not see what a free society looks like.
In a case of India, we have a long history of sustaining political democracy. Except in one or two cases which off-course were regretted, India has not seen a gross violation of fundamental right and very large scale persecution based on religion like that happen in Nazi Germany or Uganda. No matter how much autocratic Indian politician would have been, he, at least, respected the judiciary and every decision of it. This is the traditional system of democratic set up which we have respected and prospered. It is a hard earned set up and an autocratic leader will think thousand times before undermining judiciary and elections.
The problem with some people of India is that they fail to understand the importance of freedom of expression and choice. They have failed to understand how much effort does it take to bring that system which favors right to express freely, cherish your thought and prophase your religion. Thousands of men have time and again sacrificed their whole life struggling for bringing these ideas of freedom. And mind you, the very idea renaissance in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth century was based on humanism. The idea that human is the most beautiful thing happened on the earth and we have every right to cherish his desires.
We have to understand that no autocratic state can live in perpetuity by ignoring the views of the bourgeoisie. The very fact that government did back off when we commonly tried to counter porn ban because whole nation was united on common agenda, gives the hint for the future course of action. The question is not whether to find which fundamental rights violates which other fundamental rights. But that the very idea of the fundamental right should remain intact.
Off-course the question becomes difficult when we have to select between two worst things. But no two ideas can be exclusively similar. There has to be some difference, a thin line where we can separate ugly from the worst. There have to be some people who will stand by nothing but their own vision. There have to be some people, no matter how strong opposite forces, will fight for the righteous society. The thing which we so called as citizens must do is to make them our heroes of democracy. In that context, it becomes important that we must apply our conscience, that knowledge, that innate ability to compare things and take a righteous decision in order to achieve the idea of free society.
He must be the same person like you and me. He may wear the same dress, might have gone through the same school and might have sung the same national song thousands of time in his school. But the only difference is that he has acquired that extra half knowledge for which our ancestors have cautioned us.
So where did this guy get his training especially if he does not attend nonsecular collegium or have that wish to research something about our society. Normally this idle fellow is the byproduct of neo-orthodox society. He is impacted by Goebbelsian political class and self-acclaimed gatekeepers of ideal society who bombards waves of heated neutrinos in order to capture his imagination.
He believes in them not because they have successfully implanted the nuclear of hatred and intolerance. But very sadly because as Edmund Burkey says “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is the fact that he can’t comprehend as why intellectuals in India are returning their dignified awards. Why are they undermining the highest achievement given by the state elected by the people of this country? And why they are called as intellectuals?
They are called as intellectuals because time and again they have read about stories of holocaust targeted by majority towards the minority. They are intellectuals because they know about the inner character of the leaders and his ambition based upon precedents of leaders who have ruined the mankind based upon that divine theory of kingship. They are called intellectuals because they do not form the opinion based on the previous election but surely on the basis of the history of this great diverse country.
Every country preserves its cultural and historical heritage not because a handful of visitors both native and foreign should visit and cherish it. But because the very identity of the society, the very ethos of greatness and patriotism are dependent upon it. In that context, it becomes the responsibility of every stakeholder to preserve and sustain its historical institution, cultural forums and the ideas of a secular state in its true form.
If you will dig the history of our neighboring countries or for that matter history of South East Asia or Arabian land, you will find that these countries got the freedom around the same time as that of India. But if you look at the last five-six decades then you will realize that except India most of these countries have been the victim of tyrant autocratic government. They could not sustain democracy because of the fact that their founding fathers did not vehemently believed in the democratic system.
For e.g. Pakistan could not sustain its democracy because its founding father believed in the state based on religion. A different but equally similar was the case with Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka. People of these countries could not take a breath of relief because of continuous violation of rights and persecution. Whole of South East Asia is full of the examples of autocratic government whether it is Shinawatra of Thailand, Pol Pot of Cambodia, Junta of Myanmar and much more. It is better not to talk about Arabian land because democracy is the word which they have never believed in.
The result of such tyrant system is simply continuous wars, a gross violation of human rights, large-scale migration, and refugee crisis. It also includes the grave anarchy, chaos, persecution of minorities based on ethnic, cultural and religious bigotry. Humanity simply cannot prosper in this situation. Just imagine government banning the internet, asking to cut your hand for a simple violation, or in a case of girls, rupturing the hymen of adult female long before marriage so that she can’t enjoy pleasure or beheading just for expressing your ideas.
At this time, it may look to be a vague idea but surely recent steps look to be the first of the steps towards achieving these objectives. It may not happen during the tenure of this government but it will surely add to the confidence of next autocratic government whoever it may be whenever it might be. The fundamentalist regimes of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have lived to these bigoted inhuman ideas and people have supported them. They did not support because they liked those ideas but from their birth till now, they did not see what a free society looks like.
In a case of India, we have a long history of sustaining political democracy. Except in one or two cases which off-course were regretted, India has not seen a gross violation of fundamental right and very large scale persecution based on religion like that happen in Nazi Germany or Uganda. No matter how much autocratic Indian politician would have been, he, at least, respected the judiciary and every decision of it. This is the traditional system of democratic set up which we have respected and prospered. It is a hard earned set up and an autocratic leader will think thousand times before undermining judiciary and elections.
The problem with some people of India is that they fail to understand the importance of freedom of expression and choice. They have failed to understand how much effort does it take to bring that system which favors right to express freely, cherish your thought and prophase your religion. Thousands of men have time and again sacrificed their whole life struggling for bringing these ideas of freedom. And mind you, the very idea renaissance in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth century was based on humanism. The idea that human is the most beautiful thing happened on the earth and we have every right to cherish his desires.
We have to understand that no autocratic state can live in perpetuity by ignoring the views of the bourgeoisie. The very fact that government did back off when we commonly tried to counter porn ban because whole nation was united on common agenda, gives the hint for the future course of action. The question is not whether to find which fundamental rights violates which other fundamental rights. But that the very idea of the fundamental right should remain intact.
Off-course the question becomes difficult when we have to select between two worst things. But no two ideas can be exclusively similar. There has to be some difference, a thin line where we can separate ugly from the worst. There have to be some people who will stand by nothing but their own vision. There have to be some people, no matter how strong opposite forces, will fight for the righteous society. The thing which we so called as citizens must do is to make them our heroes of democracy. In that context, it becomes important that we must apply our conscience, that knowledge, that innate ability to compare things and take a righteous decision in order to achieve the idea of free society.
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