India in future

I wonder what British imperialist would think of India today. Will they be sad to see that the country they divided geographically and socially is still standing? Or, Will they be ecstatic to see that their policy of dividing India into tiniest possible pieces is aggressively persuaded by Indian policymakers, lawmakers and politicians in post-independence period? I guess, they will be happy to see current state of India and it won’t be long before they start partying as our ‘democratically’ elected politician finish dividing Indian society thoroughly. I am almost heart broken to write this but the way India is proceeding right now, it is clearly courting disaster and bleak future.

This sad story began with Mr. Gandhi, our numero uno leader of independence movement. The biggest blunder he did is to force Mr. Nehru as our first prime-minister. We have Kashmir problem, a legacy, perhaps, first gift of Mr. Nehru to India. Actually, to his credit he did great job in fostering scientific and industrial growth in initial years and his choice of socialism was certainly one of the best decision. But he made sure that he leaves India with another legacy, heavy defeat in India-China war. Plus, he legendry forced policy of Secularism is creating havoc in modern India by failing to unite India as a nation and destroying India as a civilization. We can’t say that he started Muslim appeasement policies but his weird notion about secularism certainly set up the stage for future congress leaders to stretch secularism to an absurd level. The next in line, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, was extremely ambitious and that increasingly fuelled her quest for the power. She did wonderful job as a political leader in 1971 war with Pakistan but to avenge her good deeds she made sure that she leaves India with institutionalized corruption and reignite the ‘divide and rule’ policy. When India needed gradual shift to liberal economy but Mrs. Gandhi was so busy in keeping her power absolute by making sure no state government in Indian state is ruled by non-Congress government that it was almost improbable for her to pay attention to economy.

During Mrs. Gandhi’s era, Congress party turned into personal fiefdom of Gandhi clan. Rampant corruption in Congress gave stimuli to regional parties and though, we can say that regional parties gave option to the population, the problem with regional parties was that they were myopic and concerned about their home state more than about India. These parties seems to be programmed to cling to the power at all cost and they had no ability to think on larger scale.. And, all though Congress was firmly in power till 1995, the gradual decline of congress and failure of BJP to fill up the shoes increased the power of regional parties. The minority governments that formed in post 1988 (after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated) were more concerned about sticking to the power by all means, even if they had to dived India further on the basis of caste.

With such a roller-coaster past, the future looks more rickety. The recent overture of central government to introduce inane policy of affirmative action in virtually every facet of Indian social life is not a nadir of political ineptness but rather culmination of long process, during which our political class established a sinecure and yet powerful place for themselves. They grew more selfish, with absolutely no regard towards India’s future they became obtuse to the extend of being anti-national. All these problem can be taken care of if India remain democracy. But it is fast becoming a mobocracy i.e. rule of mob not of consensus. The general populace is increasingly oozing lassitude and turning their back at the predatory political class. And obviously, this helps our useless politicians enormously.

The infrastructure is in shambles, judiciary system is a pure joke and a detestable political class, I don’t see any bright dawn on the horizon, but rather long bleak night.