Denizen - Wake up!

Hello Readers

Hope you are fine today.

India has a vibrant history, the level of maturity and advancement of our ancient civilisations is still not known to us, and we have also not made an effort to understand and realise it, as I always say we get easily attracted to orthodontic methods and systems as they are easy to perceive.

Even before the English laid siege to India, Hindustan had a great patronage and history so many stories to tell, which was just snubbed and hushed up by all the invaders who started insisting on applying their methods here, like vernacular education, policies, bureaucracy and organizational structures that would directly reflect the way affairs went on in Britain.

Do we all know during the golden periods of the great kingdoms of, Magadha, Kadamba, Chola, Vijayanagara, Mysore, Marathas and so on they all had a perfect organisational functioning system and departmentalisation to deal with different issues of the state?

But the sad part is we are seldom proud of our own culture and not interested to read more about the real Indian history, we all just still understand and look at the Indian History in the eyes of a white man.

We have never made our minds to move on and go back to the thinking of great people like Chanakya, Sri Krishnadevaraya, Ashoka, and Chandra Gupta Maurya, Chatrapathi Shivaji.

I was reading this excellent book written by Sri Subhas Chandra book himself “the Indian struggle from 1920 to 1942", in Netaji’s own words the first chapter of the book describes numerous references to the ancient history of India and Netaji applauds the great civilisations discussed above.

Unfortunately, we fell into the trap of a Britisher and started thinking in the view in which he believes, including this language ( English) in which we all are so proud that we are so fluent.

So if you imagine that there is a curtain and you are behind it, then that curtain is modern history that is the period after 1600s’, now try to open that curtain you will soon see the forgotten beautiful history of Hindustan the great velour of our kings their methods of cultivation of land, law and order principles, the advanced engineering techniques which they used in machinery and manufacturing.

Turning the clock forward,  I have asked this question in some of my previous blogs, what do you think the situation of India today would be minus the British invasion and the slavery of 200 years? Do you think was it like a meant to happen case and that we did not have any other option than to get exploited, or you think we could have kept our values high and threw them out with mighty arm of unity? Let me know your thoughts on that.

Anyway, the reality is that we cloned ourselves to their system and today our country continues to function in the British administration methods.

Why should we vote?

We all know that India is a democratic republic; we all enjoy the fundamental rights as per our constitution, not to forget we also have specific fundamental duties which need to be carried on.

Even though the universal adult franchise or commonly known as the power of voting a member of legislative assembly or a member of the parliament which is given to each and every citizen of India who is above the age of eighteen, is not a mentioned in the list of fundamental duties, I would say we need it add this to the list.

My appeal to each and every citizen of my dear country is that please cast your vote, consider elections as a severe matter please note it is merely not pressing a ballot button and inking your finger and just forget about it for the next five years.

The real responsibility as an educated citizen is to make sure that the leader whom you elected is trying to move in the direction of what he claimed during his election campaign and fulfil his promises.

If there are any diversions in his or her plans, we as citizens should question the leader and government which we elected.

Please note to all my friends who still consider polling as a joke, the babus whom you vote are the servants of the country who pledge themselves to serve, so if you keep voting some person randomly and be very callous about it, you are not on cheating yourself but you will be responsible, or you may call it helping a person to become a hero in the wrong way with his wrong doings!

The need to become proactive citizens has increased substantially.

There is a new trend now, that people show they are apolitical and vote for the “none of the above option” or popularly called in India as " Nota" , I would leave to them to decide: well do you want say you do not support any party and become a helping hand for an undeserving candidate to become your leader or you will think otherwise.

Please note voting is almost the spine of democracy, please do not consider this a joke, read manifestos of political parties before you vote, do your homework like your boss evaluates you in your workplace for a year, you need to be proactive and then talk about dynamic leaders.

Life should be great, rather than long.

- B.R Ambedkar

By doing this, you would never say what we always end up saying: “this country has no future, and all the Netas are useless” please remember you also have a part to play in this system other than just getting inked.

Please think freely about it.

Thanks for your time, have a great week ahead.

Helios.