Strengths and concerns

Political Challenges on the Eve of Independence..

Its my considered opinion that to truly understand the Indian polity one has to go far back into the political environment at the time of its birth, for studying it from the perspective of the present 21st century will be onerous. The great men and women, whose ideas have shaped our present, were supremely dedicated to the ‘upbringing’ of this young nation – managing with whatever little resources they had to tackle the whims and fancies of volatile socio-economic currents and shield from a hostile external environment. 

The challenges that our yester year leaders faced and got us out of it have been poetically explained by the famous Hindi song ;

HUM LAAYE HAIN TOOFAN SEY KASHTI NIKAAL KEY IS DESH KO RAKHNA MEREY BACCHON SAMBHAAL KEY.

 

  It had no constitution to govern till 1950 and enacting a constituition is not the end of all, It needs to be implemented in letter and spirit, through the various institutions, whose sanctity need to be ensured, particularly by those who are in Power and thats not easy all the time because of the many compulsions that the Political organisations and Government faces , specifically ; Electoral compulsions in a  democratic setup.

There existed divisive trends and mischievous minds could exploit those for their own vested interests. In a society which experienced partition based on Religion, whose history is 5000 years old, there will always be discontended groups of people who would have been either carrying grudges against other groups or being wronged and subjugated by another group, so, its not all that difficult to whip up communal sentiments. Thus, in no time , Language, caste, religion, ethnicity can be made emotive issues and property worth crores can be looted and destroyed and people can be killed. Simple Excuse ; Hurting Religious Sentiments.

 The name India i.e Bharat i.e Hindustan suggests that the name itself means differently to different people and they had to be satisfied.

Thence the initial task for the Governement in 1947 formed as an aftermath of bloodshed and displacement of millions, was to calm down the nerves of the people and remove the animosity amongst warring communities .
Integration of Kingdoms by itself was a tedious work , it could be attained by legal enactment but Emotional integration was much more tedious. So many
movements for the creation of a seperate state or against Hindi started ; in Tamilnadu, in Punjab movement for Punjabi suba & Punjabi language  , under which Punjabi and gurmukhi were made official state language resulting in, People of Hindi speaking areas of Punjab resisting this imposition, for a seperate State by Gujarati speaking people, for a Telugu speaking state and Kanada speaking regions of Southern India and above all followers of Periyar E V Ramasamy displaying Black Flags on 15 Aug 1947, stating that, Freedom meant, transfer of power from the “British to the Brahmins and Baniyas”...."  ;

Thirdly, country was hopelessly poor as a result of steady deindustrialization by Britain. Poverty, Discrimination, Illiteracy and Shortages ; Power, Jobs, Roads, rail…
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                                       Our democracy; worst floats to the top and vile is replaced by more vile
 
 
The State Govts have just got their hands off from every responsibility. For education, the state conveniently presumes that we would be sending our children to private schools and private colleges as it has failed to run its educational institutions, for electricity it expects us to buy a generator or an invertor as the state-run electricity boards can not provide power 24 hours. For health care its now an unwritten code please visit private nursing homes as govt hospitals can not be trusted. Even the poor avoid them. For water, every citizen is expected to get a bore well dug in the back yard of the house and buy a water purifier as the State can not provide safe drinking water.
The current democratic societies are under stress and decision making has become a problem and as a result most of the nations are gradually looking inwards.
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                                                                                               Stop buying peace!
The demand to put a stop to this communal hatred is growing day by day. But the moot question is how can this be achieved? It is surprising that a land that has produced great apostles of peace; has been unable to find a solution to this problem? Is it really such a complex problem?
Or Is it that we ourselves have made it a complex problem that we can not find a solution? Why is it that an Islamic scholar had to say that Hindus and Muslims have been living together in this country for centuries but separately?
 
 
 

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