India is a breeding ground of vicious circles. ever since our fathers enjoyed the magna carta of 1947 which set a forth a journey of idealism, all the plaguing darkness of that what has become no less than a heritage came to light. And today we live in an atmosphere of realism, hypocritically moving away from realism. and all this culminates to the present india - living in the realism of all that can plague any - poverty, communalism, patriarchy, 50 % bpl, demographic disaster, manual scavenging, corruption, crony capitalism, resource raj, and so on. What comes to bother is the acceptance of all such problems in the lie and truth of living under the facade of realism, and no such efforts being made, and no results if ever one is.
These problems have not been unique to our country. any and very country going through development has experienced the same. the one heritage of problems which has ever prevailed since the existence of society cutting accross cultures and times and spaces is that of divide. this may take the form of caste, colour, class, poverty - all belonging to the same family of draconian degradation. Time ad again 'reformists' have tried to search for cures. Prince Siddharatha saw this and became a reformer, Buddha. his thoughts were inspiration, but got plagued on becoming a cult. his reforms could never materialize in truth. All the social reformers and philosophers tried to search for an absolute answer to the same and came up with their own solutions. Karl Marx proclaimed that all that is needed is to replace the bourgeois by the proletriat - but wouldnt the tables on being turned remain the same - wouldnt divide still prevail? what was common amongst all such reformers was a ready class of followers ready to agree, ready to believe blindly in these solutions. they believed them to be ideal. they believed them to be real. and it is they who corrupted this thoughts, and proved that these could never be real.
The moot question to be asked is - do we even want a solution? or in agreeing in different such answers, we merely agree to placate ourselves , to appease our minds of a single contribution that we can do. The other day I was on my way to kFC with friends to celebrate someone's birthday. and it was all in the mood of jubilation, in the dreams of having the perfect meal, that I came across and elderly women on the footpath nearby a dustbin someone's used burgers graciously. this was the paradise that she could afford. all the skyscrapers of malls around were her 'glimpse' that she could afford into a world which could never be hers. She belongs to that great world, which is truly India - an India that we blatantly choose to ignore, an India that we do great disservice when we define a fine line of Rs. 26 as that what defines poverty. an India that has no hope yet. an India which would only agree rhetorically without any sense of an answer that their conditions had changed since independence and will improve in future. an India that we ignore in all the crude talks of development in terms of monetary values and economies. An India that gets displaced by an exodus for ethnic reasons. An India which if one day demands for their share for justice, we will have loss of letters for an answer.
It can be reasoned that it is in the hawkish, individualist viewpoint that is inherent in human behavior, that we choose to keep the collective as a subsidiary. all that matters is that of the goal of an individual - like that in college to pass in an irrelevant exam, to get a bogus job, but with a high pay, so that you can party on weekends. Hell, this individualism applies to that India described above as well. Adding to this comes the glands of political populism, to which the middle and upper class have either no interest in or are interested for their own lobbies. Perhaps all such rhetorics together produce 'realism' . Revolution is probably nothing more than a myth or a lie today when it talks about absolute solutions to problems. all that can be done is individually - to combine societal 'realism' together with individual fetish of idealism.
These problems have not been unique to our country. any and very country going through development has experienced the same. the one heritage of problems which has ever prevailed since the existence of society cutting accross cultures and times and spaces is that of divide. this may take the form of caste, colour, class, poverty - all belonging to the same family of draconian degradation. Time ad again 'reformists' have tried to search for cures. Prince Siddharatha saw this and became a reformer, Buddha. his thoughts were inspiration, but got plagued on becoming a cult. his reforms could never materialize in truth. All the social reformers and philosophers tried to search for an absolute answer to the same and came up with their own solutions. Karl Marx proclaimed that all that is needed is to replace the bourgeois by the proletriat - but wouldnt the tables on being turned remain the same - wouldnt divide still prevail? what was common amongst all such reformers was a ready class of followers ready to agree, ready to believe blindly in these solutions. they believed them to be ideal. they believed them to be real. and it is they who corrupted this thoughts, and proved that these could never be real.
The moot question to be asked is - do we even want a solution? or in agreeing in different such answers, we merely agree to placate ourselves , to appease our minds of a single contribution that we can do. The other day I was on my way to kFC with friends to celebrate someone's birthday. and it was all in the mood of jubilation, in the dreams of having the perfect meal, that I came across and elderly women on the footpath nearby a dustbin someone's used burgers graciously. this was the paradise that she could afford. all the skyscrapers of malls around were her 'glimpse' that she could afford into a world which could never be hers. She belongs to that great world, which is truly India - an India that we blatantly choose to ignore, an India that we do great disservice when we define a fine line of Rs. 26 as that what defines poverty. an India that has no hope yet. an India which would only agree rhetorically without any sense of an answer that their conditions had changed since independence and will improve in future. an India that we ignore in all the crude talks of development in terms of monetary values and economies. An India that gets displaced by an exodus for ethnic reasons. An India which if one day demands for their share for justice, we will have loss of letters for an answer.
It can be reasoned that it is in the hawkish, individualist viewpoint that is inherent in human behavior, that we choose to keep the collective as a subsidiary. all that matters is that of the goal of an individual - like that in college to pass in an irrelevant exam, to get a bogus job, but with a high pay, so that you can party on weekends. Hell, this individualism applies to that India described above as well. Adding to this comes the glands of political populism, to which the middle and upper class have either no interest in or are interested for their own lobbies. Perhaps all such rhetorics together produce 'realism' . Revolution is probably nothing more than a myth or a lie today when it talks about absolute solutions to problems. all that can be done is individually - to combine societal 'realism' together with individual fetish of idealism.
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