I once took pride in my nationality. Over time, I realized with my conscience that I was indeed, taught to do so. My conscience - my sense of right or wrong, the rational right or wrong, not the solemn one!
Nationality, in the broad sense, is a political instrument to create more positions of power. We are taught to love our nations, and follow its political intelligentsia, blindly. It is a mass hysteria, created to imbibe partisan ideas, inculcate hatred which teaches people of the same ethnicity, background, and above all language to live separately, and so unfortunately, proudly so. I have deliberately missed religion from the previous list, not exactly because I am an atheist, but because religion could not make it to this list. Independence struggles are written down in gold, by the first rulers of the new nation - the same struggle which termed them as terrorists a few years back, by the bygone rulers. Ahoy! a new nation got created: we have a few more bastards legibly eating our resources!
Independence, albeit won sixty years back seems lost, to the color of her skin, the language he speaks, the money I have, the caste you belong to, and above all our religions. Don't misunderstand independence - after all its India's independence, from the ruthless British, not yours, fool.
And for whom? The story of independent India is after all written by our political muscles. India would not have been any worse as a dominion of Britain. We proudly forget that all the infrastructure, from railways, roads, hill stations, museums, postal system, educational institutions, judicial system, to the Central Secretariat and Parliament were in fact built up by the British. We would have been no better than Somalian pirates without a British occupation. Numerous little kingdoms would have fluttered around ... passing down realms of power down blood lines. Well, quite similar to what happens today!
Way back in history, some great men made socialism a way to equality in society, and some capitalists denounced it. We somehow caught the buzzword. But with our mighty traditions we are worse of both worlds. The range of money which is spent by a citizen over a day, varies to extents which are would put even the biggest capitalists to shame, or the poorest of failed states to relax. But unlike capitalism nothing seems to work here: there are red tapes everywhere, we picked up the easy (and worse) part of socialism.
With out basic rights getting dictates by hegemony, casteism and intolerance, elections being fought by narrow minded regional mongrels just after a quick buck, and even the head of state chosen carefully to be dumb....
... sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic .....
... any one ?
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