India is a free nation. Thanks to Hindu way of living, we have democracy in its purest form. As a Hindu, we are not bound to go to temple every week, we are a free soul. We can chose our God or abuse them at will. We became Chief Minister by abusing God or arresting God man. We chose our God based on region or even city. We are free in some real sense.
Freedom is in our DNA and we all should be proud of this.
This freedom does not rest with Hindus only. Even Muslims are free. Sikhs are free. Similarly other communities are free. We can use computer, laptop and iPAD and there is no fatwa on its use. Our ladies can chose their dresses and roam in jeans. As a sikh, we can have turban or we simply have handkerchief on head and visit Gurudwara. Many intelligent Sikhs and Muslims in the country are not regular visitors to Gurdwara or Mosque. People are free.
India breeds freedom.
And amidst this freedom, Congress came with a new word – Unelected Dictators. I personally feel that this word depicts a significant change in the mindset of rulers, leaders and Government. They feel helpless and hapless. They feel marginalized. They feel threatened by this free people.
Today when Arab world is witnessing uprising all over and all these for the good of humanity, I see a bright future for human beings. Arab world is not going to be the same again. One side when the country like Egypt has been invented fortunate to accept the change, the rulers from Libya, Syria and others are struggling for their dominance. But no one should have doubt that at the end, it has to be people power. No human beings born on earth want to be slave.
Just few years back, no body would have expected that upsurge will occur in Arab world. Even I was not sure if I ever thought about these changes in Muslim world. I was expecting that the change for democracy will certainly start from China but unfortunately Chinese are keeping mum and instead of witnessing change in Chinese system, we are seeing the change in Muslim world. On the other hand, Chinese are migrating to West for a better life.
I think similar things happened in India few decades back what is happening in China today.
The leaderships in India was so hopeless in the decade of 70 and 80s that most of the educated and affluent people migrated to West to shape their career but in second decade of 21st century, things started changing. Educated from IITs are no more going away to USA or UK but staying here and trying to bring the change. Arvind Kejriwal, a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, struggled here in this country to bring the change what we all dream for. He did not go to USA to build his career. He made his career here. Earlier as activist for RTI Act for better governance and now for Lok Pal Bill.
The Government calls him and his team elected dictators.
A simple graduate from IIT could be an unelected dictator. This is the power of Internet. This is the power of technology and information. It is great. But I feel pleasure in this word of dictator because it is an individual who is not close to power can make a difference to this country. Just few months back when a poor boy from Ranchi hit a sixer and brought world cup for India, it showed the power of individual. He was not highly trained guy. He never had the world exposure. He never had very affluent life. He struggled as a ticket collector to fulfill his dream and he had the guts to fulfill the dream of 1.2 billion Indians.
Individual power is the supreme power. The successes of Vivekananda and Ravindra Nath Tagore have shown this power. How can we forget the Nobel Laureate C V Raman? Its individual power which is forcing government to call activists unelected dictators a greatest threat. If Congress means by this statement as threat to nation then they are living in a past world. This threat is not to the nation but to the people who have taken guarantee to rule over Indians. In a democracy, no one should take the responsibility to rule for years. They must leave the chair for more qualified and intelligent people.
I do not think that Indians could be worse than people from Arab nations to have courage to bring a change.
Indians are supposed to be more conscious to their rights and privileges. I do not think that we should allow some handful of people to run the nation at their will. People power has to emerge and strong nation has to be build. That’s how many from IITs and IIMs have not gone for lucrative jobs or postings to West but are here to ensure that India becomes great.
Unelected dictators have to change the face of the nation and hopefully will change.
