At the Mercy of Politics

In Response to At the mercy of Terrorists by Kanchan Gupta http://www.dailypioneer.com/pioneer-news/edit/4654-at-the-mercy-of-terrorists.html

At the Mercy of Politics

Your's is one of the more nonplussed views. Yet in my humble response, the greater issue that faces India is that people, in particular the new generation have no trust in the current political leaders. That is what is dangerous, and somehow I find media, sitting over that expression just the way the politicians sat over India's development.

The gap is clear here: those who have their eyes and ears closer to the power have the faith that the solution is making good with what is, and that the system is 'clever' and 'smart' enough to take forward India; and the farther ones who believe that the system has reached the rot that it can only now stink.

It is a war between "I think this can be turned better" and "I have a sense that it can't get worse".

The conscientious opinion makers are playing the role of the Good Samaritans (as Prem Shankar Jha would in the 1970s or Khushwant Singh would swing) for the sake of the nation, in response to a theatrical call for survival.

The administration lost its pulse over people about early 90s and media tripped for it because they would save on cost and rly more on feeds at their desks. And it is too late, I think to expect the Government (UPA or NDA) in their 19th century mould to be closer home to the India of 2011.

BJP or any other party is nothing but a helpless choice is known for long. And I have a feeling that people began a search beyond their prisoners of war state.  That  there ought be an alternative, or that when sunk in the deep you have to get the heck out of you;  and that a passion must, at the least be given a good attempt even if that is seen as fairytale by most. And the various segments of these people who wish to dare have attained collaboration using technology. Why the administration would find it difficult to resist this force is because the people are equipped with the the Government know-how of reacting, and this knowledge appears to be strategically applied in their methods. They also seem to know that several micro level commited groups together is a mightier option than waging a war under a singular leadership.

Why the other side may win and perhaps even offer, mysterious as that may be, a solution for better India, is because they are fresh with ideas, clear about goals, and have the will to die for a cause. A level of commitment that the Government of India from National to the District level would take at least 25 years to get closer. No national or international power I think can fight the flame that was let turn into fire because their abilities are limited to Lutyens' Delhi. The streets of India is less travelled.

As honestly I can think as a citizen with hope and aspiration, I believe that true power rests with people, rest is a cosmetic matrix of role play. For the good or the bad, people of India want to test their power, for a change. If that has to happen, I pray that happens the whole way now when the burn is being felt deep and the passion is aflame lest the slumber strikes for the next half century, if we can survivce that. I do not believe the process would damage the democratic institutions or the Constitution, nor would it be swapped by cunning games of electoral mathematics, nor would that reverse the economic growth, nor would it theraten the solidarity of India.

In this context, concerns about whether rest of India can be less corrupt when in power, or that the Janata Party showed its inability or Tavleen Singh's rhetoric would fall apart like castles made of theoretical analogy. Just for one reason that a century has elapsed between the schools of 1970 and the one of 2011.

Yes I have a role in this Movement, though not at a level to know the depth of it, but I know that the intelligentsia has not quite understood the minds of a largely aware India, for whom Rajeev Gandhi is a forgotten name.