Lead or let lead

My dear argumentative Indian, enough is enough.
The ordinary Indian citizens have not been pushed this close to the wall ever in India's history, not even during the emergency.
They keep reposing faith in a “personally honest PM” and get rewarded in terms of “coalition dharma, which means sale of nation for a wrong electoral mandate”.
Then an honest CAG confronts Government of the day with facts and figures of the national loss, which is ridiculed as notional loss and zero loss by blue-eyed boys in the Government of the day. The Government itself validates the loss through a fresh pricing of the licences.
When CAG gives report after report on various scams, Government learns how to dodge them and prevent a timely public debate. And there are scams involving the honest PM's own portfolio.
Smaller countries pursue aggressively the menace of illegitimate money stashed away from their countries with a view to both bringing back the lost wealth to the nation's ex chequer and punishing the guilty. Government of the day tries to wish away its obligations to the country under non-existent compulsions of treaties and acts vigorously to bury the ugly past and worse allowing the guilty time and ample opportunity to move the illegitimate money away.
Social activists demanding the right legal framework are “framed” in a multitude of allegations and along the course, a series of promises are made and broken.
India mutely witnesses the rewards going to key persons for sabotaging the legislative action required to bring in the right kind of legal framework for an independent watchdog.
It takes a yoga guru's seemingly endless series of agitations to keep the “show of public dismay over inaction on black money” going. And the citizens have to consume a most nonsensical debate that focuses on the very few civilians who want to make a difference to the most desperate situation in India's history including various tenures of hostile alien rulers.
The hapless Indian citizens have been pushed closest to the wall. It is time the intelligentsia of the country shed its inhibitions against activists of “the lesser mortals” and follow whoever, who is able to lead the protests against the apathy and inaction of the Government.
If all apolitical forces can come together there would be no need for the activists to become political or get aligned with politicians some of whom are very much part of the problem. Our freedom movement succeeded because, aside from certain circumstances, there was an inclusive participation from people from various walks of life.
If Gandhi had been isolated as a fakir with political ambitions for his own interests - no matter whether that was justified or not, a public perception was possible - nothing could have been achieved by us.
My appeal to the argumentative Indian who is unwilling to step down from ivory towers and is too willing to belittle any agitator on the street is: Lead or let lead and, more importantly, follow the leaders who can catalyze the change you and your future generations desperately need.
Do not forsake interests of your own country for the sake of your own ego and opinions on those who dare to question the wrong doings of successive Governments, none of your running commentary on the axis of perfection which will never materialise is an iota of service to the country, every agitator is doing a service to the country and her future generations no matter how much less informed he or she may be relative to the arm chair philosophers of the day.
Not everyone can dream of giving this service to the nation.
Give up your ego and be part of the force multiplier - no matter who gains from the change and who is coming to ask for the change for what reason, everyone knows the change is both inevitable and can no longer brook a deferment..
Enough is enough.
My dear argumentative Indian, enough is enough.
The ordinary Indian citizens have not been pushed this close to the wall ever in India's history, not even during the emergency. They keep reposing faith in a “personally honest PM” and get rewarded in terms of “coalition dharma, which means sale...
My dear argumentative Indian, enough is enough.
The ordinary Indian citizens have not been pushed this close to the wall ever in India's history, not even during the emergency.
They keep reposing faith in a “personally honest PM” and get rewarded in terms of “coalition dharma, which means sale of nation for a wrong electoral mandate”.
Then an honest CAG confronts Government of the day with facts and figures of the national loss, which is ridiculed as notional loss and zero loss by blue-eyed boys in the Government of the day. The Government itself validates the loss through a fresh pricing of the licences.
When CAG gives report after report on various scams, Government learns how to dodge them and prevent a timely public debate. And there are scams involving the honest PM's own portfolio.
Smaller countries pursue aggressively the menace of illegitimate money stashed away from their countries with a view to both bringing back the lost wealth to the nation's ex chequer and punishing the guilty. Government of the day tries to wish away its obligations to the country under non-existent compulsions of treaties and acts vigorously to bury the ugly past and worse allowing the guilty time and ample opportunity to move the illegitimate money away.
Social activists demanding the right legal framework are “framed” in a multitude of allegations and along the course, a series of promises are made and broken.
India mutely witnesses the rewards going to key persons for sabotaging the legislative action required to bring in the right kind of legal framework for an independent watchdog.
It takes a yoga guru's seemingly endless series of agitations to keep the “show of public dismay over inaction on black money” going. And the citizens have to consume a most nonsensical debate that focuses on the very few civilians who want to make a difference to the most desperate situation in India's history including various tenures of hostile alien rulers.
The hapless Indian citizens have been pushed closest to the wall. It is time the intelligentsia of the country shed its inhibitions against activists of “the lesser mortals” and follow whoever, who is able to lead the protests against the apathy and inaction of the Government.
If all apolitical forces can come together there would be no need for the activists to become political or get aligned with politicians some of whom are very much part of the problem. Our freedom movement succeeded because, aside from certain circumstances, there was an inclusive participation from people from various walks of life.
If Gandhi had been isolated as a fakir with political ambitions for his own interests - no matter whether that was justified or not, a public perception was possible - nothing could have been achieved by us.
My appeal to the argumentative Indian who is unwilling to step down from ivory towers and is too willing to belittle any agitator on the street is: Lead or let lead and, more importantly, follow the leaders who can catalyze the change you and your future generations desperately need.
Do not forsake interests of your own country for the sake of your own ego and opinions on those who dare to question the wrong doings of successive Governments, none of your running commentary on the axis of perfection which will never materialise is an iota of service to the country, every agitator is doing a service to the country and her future generations no matter how much less informed he or she may be relative to the arm chair philosophers of the day.
Not everyone can dream of giving this service to the nation.
Give up your ego and be part of the force multiplier - no matter who gains from the change and who is coming to ask for the change for what reason, everyone knows the change is both inevitable and can no longer brook a deferment..
Enough is enough.
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