Rise of Indian Taliban - Fundamentalist Hindu Groups
Rise of Indian
Taliban - Fundamentalist Hindu Groups: VHP, RSS, SS, BJD, MNS,
SRS...have caused a lot of menace in India. If not stopped now, might
turn into actual terror camps. Indian democratic setup needs an
overhaul and India needs to find a single leader who has a vision to
lead India towards growth and progress!
Indian democracy might be dead, if not, then should it be?
Dictionary definition of Democracy
1. The political orientation of those who favour government by the people or by their elected representatives.
• Electing bad amongst the worst. Lack of choice of able leaders itself is laying the death bed of the country’s democracy.
2. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
• Supreme power lies with individual political leaders who allow the vandals and the fundamentalist groups mushroom up. And then they grow enough to have a large clout, that the govts .either bow down not to lose their vote banks or use these organizations as their personal pawns for their political agendas.
3. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
• Unfortunately, this numerical majority just keep lying in the centre and the action is taken up by local vandals (potential terrorists and their organizations)
Well truly, if this is what democracy means then I guess Indian democracy is dead and if it’s not dead yet, then I guess it should be soon. We Indians need to be told what we are supposed to do. A majority of us still do things which we are told to do and we don’t want to take our own decisions. We have been ruled for over thousands of years and now we have become used to that. The stick needs to be whipping us all the time. May be this is the time when we should shun the democracy and take up autocracy.
If political orientation of people who favour a government by the people or be their elected representatives holds true then how come fundamental Hindu groups like VHP, RSS, MNS, SS, BJD, SRS and few more get in the way of ruling the people or deciding to tell them how to live their lives? How do they even exist? Did the same thing happen in our neighbouring countries and today they can’t handle them?
Obviously unofficially, they do have enough clout that they get away with things like taking law into their hands, by becoming moral police, or the retaliatory organizations to respond to terror acts. They not just only leave a dark mark on the face of Indian democracy but also, make India naked to the global democratic setups and lower the Indian heads across the world. Probably, this happens, because we like to be ruled. We like that someone like this should come and whip us blue and black and we start behaving.
In the recent incident in Mangalore, there was an organized criminal activity where almost 30-40 men vandalized a pub and beat up scores of young men and women in the pretext of moral policing. Wow, they are telling people how to live their lives. So when did we elect them? We didn’t, so essentially, we did elect a government and it couldn’t stop this activity from happening, huh? Are we saying the government didn’t know about organizations called VHP, RSS, MNS, SS, BJD, SRS? Time and again, these organizations have caused unrest across India and have been vandalizing in pretension of moral policing. Today, they have done this, previous incidents show that they have done much more damage and we saw organizations going as far as conducting organized bomb blasts and mass murders. It’s just a matter of time that these organizations will take the shape of organized Terror groups like Taliban and will start expanding their pangs across India and abroad.
On one hand we have a bigger problem of terrorism from across the border, beating us every now and then. Our intelligence network and our political leaders fail to understand and act on cues. Our bureaucrats fail to organize enough global pressure on perpetrators across the border. On the other hand we have such internal terror organizations in making. Today, the organization might have done something saying we are just moral policemen and tomorrow, they can even go ahead and kill someone and say, they didn’t have the right to live anymore, so we just helped them leave this world and may be one day, they will decide that some group of people have done bad things so let’s go and get rid of everyone in that group, after all we know what’s the best for running this country. Our overall system fails to take appropriate action in time. All we do is, SAY that we will take action.
Why that is when something goes wrong in India, SIMI activists are taken to the task and every one justifies it. However, when such criminal activities in pretension of moral policing takes place, the Hindu Fundamentalist groups are not banned and not taken to task?
Dictionary Definition of Terrorism
The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
What part of this definition doesn’t justify that the Mangalore incident wasn’t a terror attack? If India was democratic, then every man and woman were equal and they had the right to live their life they choose to live, who on earth are these organizations which are telling us what to do? Why these organizations shouldn’t be termed as terrorist organizations. Why everyone who has been arrested shouldn’t be treated like a terrorist?
All this makes me wonder, Why? Why does this happen? Well I can think of few reasons…
• No Single Leader
• Lack of Vision
• Lack of Trust
• No fear of police system
In a corporate setup, one thing a CEO does is that he delegates work and makes his team accountable for their actions. Also, he makes sure that he has a Vision based on which he is acting and driving his team. He is able to run the company with a strong will power, focused approach, tough decisions and sticking to his vision. If we translate it in context of a country, India as a big team driven by local politicians, MPs as the managers and Prime Minister as the CEO, then I guess, we lack a vision, just to start with. Laziness amongst managers (lack of political will), corruption, as the red-tapism and chaotic anarchy as the ruling system.
In India, probably, democracy is the real problem. We can’t have 10 CEOs running the same company. We have a political system where no one comes to power with majority. We do not see any leader for whose party we all can vote for. There is at the end of any election 500 CEOs fighting to run the country, and the worst part is, no one knows what they will do. There are no leaders who have a clear vision of where will India be from 10 yr and 20 yrs from now. So essentially we end up in voting or abstaining from voting for any political party at random.
Is autocracy the solution? Or some revolution which spans across India and changes everything? Who will be the leader who can drive the country to a growth path with his or her vision? Who can restore the trust amongst common man in the political system? How do we really save our Democracy from dying?
Indian democracy might be dead, if not, then should it be?
Dictionary definition of Democracy
1. The political orientation of those who favour government by the people or by their elected representatives.
• Electing bad amongst the worst. Lack of choice of able leaders itself is laying the death bed of the country’s democracy.
2. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
• Supreme power lies with individual political leaders who allow the vandals and the fundamentalist groups mushroom up. And then they grow enough to have a large clout, that the govts .either bow down not to lose their vote banks or use these organizations as their personal pawns for their political agendas.
3. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
• Unfortunately, this numerical majority just keep lying in the centre and the action is taken up by local vandals (potential terrorists and their organizations)
Well truly, if this is what democracy means then I guess Indian democracy is dead and if it’s not dead yet, then I guess it should be soon. We Indians need to be told what we are supposed to do. A majority of us still do things which we are told to do and we don’t want to take our own decisions. We have been ruled for over thousands of years and now we have become used to that. The stick needs to be whipping us all the time. May be this is the time when we should shun the democracy and take up autocracy.
If political orientation of people who favour a government by the people or be their elected representatives holds true then how come fundamental Hindu groups like VHP, RSS, MNS, SS, BJD, SRS and few more get in the way of ruling the people or deciding to tell them how to live their lives? How do they even exist? Did the same thing happen in our neighbouring countries and today they can’t handle them?
Obviously unofficially, they do have enough clout that they get away with things like taking law into their hands, by becoming moral police, or the retaliatory organizations to respond to terror acts. They not just only leave a dark mark on the face of Indian democracy but also, make India naked to the global democratic setups and lower the Indian heads across the world. Probably, this happens, because we like to be ruled. We like that someone like this should come and whip us blue and black and we start behaving.
In the recent incident in Mangalore, there was an organized criminal activity where almost 30-40 men vandalized a pub and beat up scores of young men and women in the pretext of moral policing. Wow, they are telling people how to live their lives. So when did we elect them? We didn’t, so essentially, we did elect a government and it couldn’t stop this activity from happening, huh? Are we saying the government didn’t know about organizations called VHP, RSS, MNS, SS, BJD, SRS? Time and again, these organizations have caused unrest across India and have been vandalizing in pretension of moral policing. Today, they have done this, previous incidents show that they have done much more damage and we saw organizations going as far as conducting organized bomb blasts and mass murders. It’s just a matter of time that these organizations will take the shape of organized Terror groups like Taliban and will start expanding their pangs across India and abroad.
On one hand we have a bigger problem of terrorism from across the border, beating us every now and then. Our intelligence network and our political leaders fail to understand and act on cues. Our bureaucrats fail to organize enough global pressure on perpetrators across the border. On the other hand we have such internal terror organizations in making. Today, the organization might have done something saying we are just moral policemen and tomorrow, they can even go ahead and kill someone and say, they didn’t have the right to live anymore, so we just helped them leave this world and may be one day, they will decide that some group of people have done bad things so let’s go and get rid of everyone in that group, after all we know what’s the best for running this country. Our overall system fails to take appropriate action in time. All we do is, SAY that we will take action.
Why that is when something goes wrong in India, SIMI activists are taken to the task and every one justifies it. However, when such criminal activities in pretension of moral policing takes place, the Hindu Fundamentalist groups are not banned and not taken to task?
Dictionary Definition of Terrorism
The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
What part of this definition doesn’t justify that the Mangalore incident wasn’t a terror attack? If India was democratic, then every man and woman were equal and they had the right to live their life they choose to live, who on earth are these organizations which are telling us what to do? Why these organizations shouldn’t be termed as terrorist organizations. Why everyone who has been arrested shouldn’t be treated like a terrorist?
All this makes me wonder, Why? Why does this happen? Well I can think of few reasons…
• No Single Leader
• Lack of Vision
• Lack of Trust
• No fear of police system
In a corporate setup, one thing a CEO does is that he delegates work and makes his team accountable for their actions. Also, he makes sure that he has a Vision based on which he is acting and driving his team. He is able to run the company with a strong will power, focused approach, tough decisions and sticking to his vision. If we translate it in context of a country, India as a big team driven by local politicians, MPs as the managers and Prime Minister as the CEO, then I guess, we lack a vision, just to start with. Laziness amongst managers (lack of political will), corruption, as the red-tapism and chaotic anarchy as the ruling system.
In India, probably, democracy is the real problem. We can’t have 10 CEOs running the same company. We have a political system where no one comes to power with majority. We do not see any leader for whose party we all can vote for. There is at the end of any election 500 CEOs fighting to run the country, and the worst part is, no one knows what they will do. There are no leaders who have a clear vision of where will India be from 10 yr and 20 yrs from now. So essentially we end up in voting or abstaining from voting for any political party at random.
Is autocracy the solution? Or some revolution which spans across India and changes everything? Who will be the leader who can drive the country to a growth path with his or her vision? Who can restore the trust amongst common man in the political system? How do we really save our Democracy from dying?
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