We the People....
We are good people, we are nice people, nicer at times, and we are simple people. We are the people who keep our lives to ourselves; we are bored yet happy with our existences. We live with no harm to the other and we live in our own spaces carved out of busy livelihoods. We are satisfied, humble and too much grounded at that.
As individuals we are too different from each other, we are bankers, we are lawyers, teachers doctors, we sport the white collar with whiter smiles. We are rickshaw pullers autowallahs, laborers and vegetable vendors; we are the blue collar brigade. We might be different as persons but we are the same as people. We make up and add up to the ever growing populations, we are the middle class, we constitute the largest democracy.
As people we have had our own histories geographies and economics all the time. We have evolved with time; we have grown with the passing years. We have never been the same; we have come a long way from being illiterate and naive mass to well educated and updated citizens. We have seen the nation change, grow and delve into its very own identity. We as people have been evidences to haw as a culture; we have borne influences from all around the globe. From the time we were just born as an independent state to the times we are ushering in the white elephant of free trade, we stand as apostles of a glorious history
We are the same people who once had come together to get the nation free, we are the same ones who had en-mass demanded our own skies and snatched our own lands from an empire. We are the same people who had walked the roads of courage and sacrifice and transformed from a mere colony to a unified democracy- a sovereign state. We are the same people who came with each other at the time of distress; we gave away our food once a week to feed our soldiers, we once gave a death blow to prime minister for having led the nation to a state of self arrest, self insult and emergency. Yes we are the same.
We have no problems accepting what is true. Yes we have been a very strong force which stood up for itself and the country. We have been the generators of strong public opinions which have shaken governments. Also we have no problems accepting what is reality... Yes we no longer are the same... we have changed or worsened... We are no longer the powerful people, we are just votes now; we are just the capital which others bank upon...
We now are not concerned with what is happening in the nation, true we are updated with the latest news but that doesn't matter to us to a slightest degree. We have been reduced to a nonchalant, bored, inarticulate herd of people. We are no longer agile, we don't feel responsible for the community we live in. we are concerned about only ourselves and nothing else. We are those parasites which feed on the society and harm it at the same time.
Let the term "harm" arise no hurt feelings. To harm here is not related in sense to direct assault to the society. No we are not those who cause damage to the world, no we are in no way antagonists, but we are neither protagonist too. we vote at an election, pay the electricity bills, we never break the traffic rules, we try paying income taxes on time, we never damage the public properties, our children are in no way concerned with the drug mafia or the local goons. We are too ordinary; we own houses, sites and vehicles. Though it is true to the highest degrees of acceptance that we don't harm anyone, it is also a shameful fact that we are numb, dumb and insensitive.
We live in big cities, amid all the civic amenities, we use all that is given to us by statute, but yet, we never feel these amenities need to be preserved from spoilage too. We don spit on the roads although; we never stop others from doing it too. We don't receive bribes although, we don't mind paying bribes or opposing it at the places of public work. Since we are good people we do not object to people smoking at public places. We do not object anything that goes wrong around us. Our cities are dirty and the municipalities seem to take no notice of it, but we don't mind. We turn deaf, dumb and blind to the eve teasers who fiddle with women, we don't speak out when human laws are breached to the core- a murder, rape or whatever, and we don't bother to say a bit!!!
So much is our naiveté as too ordinary aam janta that we do not feel we have something other than to vegetate. Although we caste our votes and ink our fingers, we never remember its we who run the government. We feel proud for having exercised one of the powerful rights of free franchise but we never ask, why is so much money being spent on elections- illegally? We never feel the need the representatives what have they done for us? The roads have dismantled long back, the drinking water is soon to be a luxury, and the fair price shops are no fair in terms of quality. we are cheated at the elections, driven fanatics when religion is at stake. We have been judged as typical bakras as far as making electoral promises is concerned. The whole country, the civic amenities, the public services, basic requirements- health, schools and lot more have only gone to dogs, be the humble, simple people of India, never raise a stink.
We, the citizens of the biggest democracy of the world with the longest constitution ever.... are good people, happy people, nice people........ WHAT A F####KING JOKE!!!!!!
While we know we are too good, why don't we realize that there are other ways of being good too. Wouldn’t it be too nice to stand up for the nation’s good and set things right? If we as illiterate snake charmers could throw the British away six decades earlier, why can’t we as well informed, educated citizens think of throwing corruption, debauchery and hypocrisy away from the nation? Why are finding it so hard to speak out and clean up the system?
Why don't the bakras- the innocuous goats scare the wolves away?? Why can’t we make the dream of a democracy- a governance of the people, by the people and for the people- in true sense a reality????
As individuals we are too different from each other, we are bankers, we are lawyers, teachers doctors, we sport the white collar with whiter smiles. We are rickshaw pullers autowallahs, laborers and vegetable vendors; we are the blue collar brigade. We might be different as persons but we are the same as people. We make up and add up to the ever growing populations, we are the middle class, we constitute the largest democracy.
As people we have had our own histories geographies and economics all the time. We have evolved with time; we have grown with the passing years. We have never been the same; we have come a long way from being illiterate and naive mass to well educated and updated citizens. We have seen the nation change, grow and delve into its very own identity. We as people have been evidences to haw as a culture; we have borne influences from all around the globe. From the time we were just born as an independent state to the times we are ushering in the white elephant of free trade, we stand as apostles of a glorious history
We are the same people who once had come together to get the nation free, we are the same ones who had en-mass demanded our own skies and snatched our own lands from an empire. We are the same people who had walked the roads of courage and sacrifice and transformed from a mere colony to a unified democracy- a sovereign state. We are the same people who came with each other at the time of distress; we gave away our food once a week to feed our soldiers, we once gave a death blow to prime minister for having led the nation to a state of self arrest, self insult and emergency. Yes we are the same.
We have no problems accepting what is true. Yes we have been a very strong force which stood up for itself and the country. We have been the generators of strong public opinions which have shaken governments. Also we have no problems accepting what is reality... Yes we no longer are the same... we have changed or worsened... We are no longer the powerful people, we are just votes now; we are just the capital which others bank upon...
We now are not concerned with what is happening in the nation, true we are updated with the latest news but that doesn't matter to us to a slightest degree. We have been reduced to a nonchalant, bored, inarticulate herd of people. We are no longer agile, we don't feel responsible for the community we live in. we are concerned about only ourselves and nothing else. We are those parasites which feed on the society and harm it at the same time.
Let the term "harm" arise no hurt feelings. To harm here is not related in sense to direct assault to the society. No we are not those who cause damage to the world, no we are in no way antagonists, but we are neither protagonist too. we vote at an election, pay the electricity bills, we never break the traffic rules, we try paying income taxes on time, we never damage the public properties, our children are in no way concerned with the drug mafia or the local goons. We are too ordinary; we own houses, sites and vehicles. Though it is true to the highest degrees of acceptance that we don't harm anyone, it is also a shameful fact that we are numb, dumb and insensitive.
We live in big cities, amid all the civic amenities, we use all that is given to us by statute, but yet, we never feel these amenities need to be preserved from spoilage too. We don spit on the roads although; we never stop others from doing it too. We don't receive bribes although, we don't mind paying bribes or opposing it at the places of public work. Since we are good people we do not object to people smoking at public places. We do not object anything that goes wrong around us. Our cities are dirty and the municipalities seem to take no notice of it, but we don't mind. We turn deaf, dumb and blind to the eve teasers who fiddle with women, we don't speak out when human laws are breached to the core- a murder, rape or whatever, and we don't bother to say a bit!!!
So much is our naiveté as too ordinary aam janta that we do not feel we have something other than to vegetate. Although we caste our votes and ink our fingers, we never remember its we who run the government. We feel proud for having exercised one of the powerful rights of free franchise but we never ask, why is so much money being spent on elections- illegally? We never feel the need the representatives what have they done for us? The roads have dismantled long back, the drinking water is soon to be a luxury, and the fair price shops are no fair in terms of quality. we are cheated at the elections, driven fanatics when religion is at stake. We have been judged as typical bakras as far as making electoral promises is concerned. The whole country, the civic amenities, the public services, basic requirements- health, schools and lot more have only gone to dogs, be the humble, simple people of India, never raise a stink.
We, the citizens of the biggest democracy of the world with the longest constitution ever.... are good people, happy people, nice people........ WHAT A F####KING JOKE!!!!!!
While we know we are too good, why don't we realize that there are other ways of being good too. Wouldn’t it be too nice to stand up for the nation’s good and set things right? If we as illiterate snake charmers could throw the British away six decades earlier, why can’t we as well informed, educated citizens think of throwing corruption, debauchery and hypocrisy away from the nation? Why are finding it so hard to speak out and clean up the system?
Why don't the bakras- the innocuous goats scare the wolves away?? Why can’t we make the dream of a democracy- a governance of the people, by the people and for the people- in true sense a reality????
