Belief is Peace - A shameful cover for Incompetence

For the first time in my life (27 years) I feel sad and depressed after winning a big bet. Today we celebrate the 59th year of a foundation that made our country weak. Like fools we sit in front of our televisions watching the celebrations of ineffectiveness in broad daylight. Like fools we feel proud of a nation that has become a laughing stock across the world. We stand tall this day that to show the whole world that we are nation led by weak and fragile government that does not have the courage or desire to save and protect the lives of 1 billion people. We pride ourselves for the belief we have in Peace, Forgiveness and Tolerance. We have given this world the symbol of Non-Violence, the great man Mohandas Karamchandra Gandhi. But, I feel Mahatma Gandhi has done nothing but given Weakness as a legacy to this country. We have been doomed to always beg for our rights rather than have the courage to stand up and fight for it.

26th Jan 2009 marks 2 months of the biggest and most shameful day of our lives. As a nation we were reminded of how incapable we are, how fragile we are, how vulnerable we are. It’s been two months are we are still begging in front of the so called “International Community” to help us out. We are pleading again in front of Pakistan to give us 20 terrorist that live happily there. We are pleading to the new Bangladesh Government to ensure that they help us fight terrorism. Just a reminder to all of you, this Bangladesh is a county we fought for in 1971. And they had the audacity to kill 7 Indian army personnel and treat them like animals and all our government could do is to lodge a “Strong Protest”. We are sacred of new Maoist government in Nepal as they are closer to china than us. I feel, today as a county all we do is plead, plead and plead more. If only begging could have given people rights then I am sure we would have got whatever we desired for.

Let’s go back into history a little bit. People say “Quit India Movement” 1942 gave us our freedom. People say we fought for our freedom. People say Gandhi united this nation into one. But if you ask me British left India only because they realized that it was not profitable any more to continue ruling India. The had already taken away everything they wanted and there was nothing more left. They walked away from here leaving this county divided forever. Jinnah and Nehru laid the foundation of two new nations, one confused about their existence and one confused about its survival. We got a Prime Minister who was just a good politician, a good orator and weak decision maker. The seeds of today’s conflict were sowed in Kashmir by our very great Chacha Nehru.

Today after 61.5 years of independence we are more exposed and helpless than ever before. More than 45000 Indian lives have been lost to terrorism. We are a nation which has most casualties due to terrorism in this world. No other country has suffered so much for so long. But still we believe in Non-violence, forgiveness and tolerance. I say, we are just a nation of 1 billion people who are incapable of defending our own dignity. Non-violence is something that in today’s world has become a shameful cover for incompetence. Tolerance is nothing but a better word for our incapacity and Forgiveness is nothing but a way of running away from reality.

After two months of Mumbai massacre all our government could do was submit a dossier to Pakistan. Indian Politics and Indian Constitution has been the biggest bane for our nation. 26th January is not a day for us to celebrate, but a day for every citizen to mourn for the future of this country. The very constitution that we adopted on 26th January 1950 put the future of this country into hands of 5000 politicians who can do what they want to without being questioned, without being responsible and without being accountable.

Politics has gone to a level where only thing that matters is votes, even if it is at the cost of the nation and its citizens. Indian government cannot take any action against Pakistan as some may see it as an action against Islam and Muslims which can affect their Vote Bank. Government cannot take any action against Bangladesh as it will have adverse affect on Vote Banks in West Bengal (courtesy illegal bangladeshi migrants). You and I can’t do anything about the situation as the educated middle class of India only makes 10% of the voting population.
Only thing that bothers me the most is how soon we changed from a nation that had Chandra Gupta Murya, Ashoka, Akbar, Pritvi Raj Chuhan, Tipu Sultan, Shivaji Rao, to a nation that is on its knees pleading and begging for some help to breathe and survive.