On the warpath for India - Part I

The title is misleading in the literal sense but is true in another way, as you will find when you read this.

I was reading Naveen's blog when he said its republic day today "And do we wish for something good to happen to our country? No, we do not, as India is what it is - always!!". I have to agree with him on this count.

But then I was thinking why can't we get on the warpath to make India a better country than it was and could be.?

Alistair McLean in his novel "The Last Frontier" says, that all young countries make a lot of mistakes. Young is not the same as in age, but in growth and economy. When you take the US and other European countries, they have seem to have grown a bit. Almost matured, ( I am sorry I can't say they are fully matured). So only the growing countries should be learning that peace within the country and unity within one's boundaries is the first path to bringing world peace. The mistakes in not encompassing the masses in your own country can lead to world wide chaos and panic alongwith distrust.

To Naveen's comment, "Lets get on the warpath to make India great. For that the road is simple - get the muslims to like the hindus and the hindus to like the muslims and christians and other minorities. Phew... I am sweating already. The worst part is that 50% or sometimes less number of today's generation does not have this so called hatred to other religions. But in the end when they are grown up they get raped - yeah I did say raped - from their almost pure minds by older generations or other people who can easily influence the thinking process of young minds. This is one obstacle."

When we look at India from the early 20th century onwards we find numerous instances of religious intolerances. When we go back a couple of centuried the religious intolerance seemed to be very less and in today's context we can even say that it was non-existence. So where did we go wrong? I honestly do not have any data to comment on that.

But lets take a look at what we could do or what can be done. Let me see, I love and respect my Dad too much. So if my Dad had told me or even made references to or even talked about it to his friends or other peaople, about the greatness of religious intolerance, I would be 60% in the same mindcast. Now, after this, if some of my influential school teachers too had the same mindframe as hypothetically my Dad's, I would have been 80% down the drain. What I am trying to convey should be plain now in the reader's mind. This is how influential growing up may be. So don't you think if this happens in a young child's mind, it is statutory rape of a young mind?

So how do you we cross over the first obstacle - religious intolerance? How do we get people to respect a human being deserves. Please note that point that I have referred to a human being and not a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian or any other person who claims to be of some religion. That should be the main thinking process and should be ingrained in each of us, so called Indians. I say so called because until we have attuned ourselves to think of people as humans and not by their religion, I insist, that none of us has even the right to think of as Indians.

I will continue this monologue in coming posts, as it is getting longer and longer.

Is it me or is it really me...