Tuesday 15 December 2020

The Indian Peaceloving Paradox

 What is the best way to destroy someone?: Physical assault? - No, Make someone bankrupt? - No. Best way is to take away his beliefs and hope. Hope has remained key success factor in human history. Hope made humans survive the worst times. For Indians it has been the key factor to make us hopeless, negative and over preaching. We face threats militarily, culturally and economically yet we sing the songs of peace making. Such paradox can work in India only, where we do have one of the strongest army in the world yet we are hell bent in making peace even with those who are killing our people daily. At one hand we talk lot about peace, our politicians and so called human right activists preach a lot about Gandhian way of non violence and same people walk under the shadow of full fledged security cover. That means either you don't believe in Gandhi and you just preach hollow or you are afraid that no one believes you. In both cases one thing comes out very clear that there is nothing like Gandhian non violence in reality. I will trust into that when all those who are preaching it daily comes out without any security, they leave their lavish villa and start living like a real common man till then I will follow the path of practical approach where it is very clear that one should protect his life and assets at any cost, it is basic survival instinct planted by nature itself, Gandhian philosophy is against the nature and trying to follow it any how has cost us badly (e.g. divided nation, lost land, losing over table talks after military victory, rise of terror and violence in each corner of nation and hotbed of corruption), all these examples are enough to prove that the way of Gandhi and Nehru has not lead us anywhere except failures and blunders so why to follow them still? Well this is the core issue we fear to be labelled as aggressors, we want someone else to fight on our behalf so we can sit inside our homes or do some violence against our own police but we never want violence with nations which are openly threatening us. Earlier we used to say harsh words in return after terror attacks, now we wait for some big attack to target terrorists but our systems don't want to pre-empt and eliminate the threat before it creates chaos. As we are saying that in new India we want new model of working, I want to add that in new India we must learn new ideals and say goodbye to failed idea of too much peace loving image. Only this is the way to come out of this paradox or else we will be thrown our of our own land.