My India, the India eternal...

This is the title of a book I read long time back on the life and work of Swami Vivekananda. It also had some essays on the India he envisaged. I was in class 10 when I read that and was mightily inspired. A dozen years later, I am pissed off with the excuse for a nation called India!

I have refrained from talking politics on my blog, there are too many people who talk about it and not too many takers (not that many people read my blog anyway! :) ) but it was a deliberate choice. I felt that the caste/regional/communalist/communist political stands will not affect me ever, so always ignored the political mire. Never voted (not because I did not want to, but because I was never in my hometown at the time of elections), but have followed the happenings closely.
Today is a different day though. I feel angry, and I feel like I need to slap Raj Thackrey today. And the spineless Congress and toothless BJP. I feel like slapping every politician from every political party.

Firstly, over the last week there have been a huge debate over the singing of Vande Matram in madarssas. Honestly, I don't believe in nation, I have no patriotic sentiments. The only act of patriotism I have ever done was to donate blood for Kargill relief and that was 10 years ago I guess. It was the hangover of Swami Vivekananda's book. I am over it. I feel standing for national anthem is an exercises, but I do it. Because the sensible people of this country while giving me freedom of speech asked that as a price and I am cool with it. I get to pee where ever I want and for that if I have to stand for 52 seconds in a cinema hall, its not that bad, is it? So I cannot understand why there is such huge furore over singing Vande Matram. Either you make it compulsory or abolish. What the hell is voluntary patriotism?

Secondly, MNS beat up Abu Azmi for taking oath in Hindi, our "national" language. Well, my respect for nation is well explained above, so you can well understand what I feel about the whole incident. I love Hindi, am pretty good at it, but my love for language is not shared by MNS, too bad! They don't respect the constitution, well, neither would I if I had the choice. MNS is above law and I have already talked about my faith in the Judiciary.

What makes me angry is the cheapness of the show put up by our politicians. Look at Madhu Koda, what a brilliant con he pulled on Jharkhand. Brilliant. And here in Maharashtra we are fighting about whether or not an oath can be taken in Hindi.
I want to slap politicians not for their ineffectiveness, but for not entertaining us enough. In Karnataka the CM did a decent job by weeping in front of cameras, admitting that his priority was to save his government and not the flood relief. Good job sir, that's why they elected you, to save the government and not the flood victims. Who cares about the flood victims anyway, they don't have enough to bribe.
Madhu Koda taught us how to milk a bull. Did he robbed Jharkhand well!Loved it. (Jharkhand is my home state, and I think it is quite oxymoronic that I don't like the idea of nation, state is not that bad. The lesser of the two evils perhaps!)

I think we should be sending our ministers. MPs and MLAs to Europe. Learn for Sarkozy's and Berlusconi's of the world. Give us some value for the taxes that we pay!