What We Need To Talk About… As Indians, As Individuals & As Humans

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We’re talking about reservations; we’re talking about beef; we’re talking about rape and riots. But there’s a huge problem that we’re not talking about at all. We’re not talking about wrongdoing. We’re not talking about hurt and misery. We’re not talking about losses. And we’re definitely not talking human.

Our government is talking about cracking down on negativity on social media. Our ministers are talking about sex, religion and terrorism. Our classes are talking about quotas and threats while our Prime Minister, well, he isn’t talking at all. But we’re not talking about violence, death, or love; we’re not talking about women and children. We’re not talking about students and education.

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How is it that a country with a population of 1,306,727,573 approximately, can have no actual worth for life? How is it that a country that freed itself from British Rule 69 years ago, today cannot even free itself from its own dogmas? How is it that a country that was already ahead of its time in the Harappan Civilisation has today become one of the most backward thinking nations? But, that, of course, is not what we must talk about. We must talk about price rise, a 1% tax for Swacch Bharat which is going into the same dump that we’re seeing day after day on roadsides even though we’re supposedly paying for the cleanup. We must also talk about how a cow’s life is worth much more than the life of a human being in this country and that even though our Prime Minister urges students to dream and grow, the law enforcers of our country are lynching them bloody just because they raised a voice, or had an opinion.

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Yes, we must talk about how much the Jats in our country need reservations, even though they earn an income of at least 10 lakhs per annum, but women cannot even count on help from another human being on the road. We must talk about our Prime Minister’s shining moments with foreign dignitaries while the nation is falling to ruins. Because, a selfie is worth a million shares, but the outcry of a nation is worth maybe a tweet at the most…

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We talk about anti-nationalism. But we don’t talk about the meaning of nationalism. We talk about development. But we don’t talk about progression. We talk about campaigns but we don’t talk about change. We talk about trivialities. But we don’t talk about vitalities. That is the problem we are not talking about; that, at the root of it, we are a petty nation running after madness with no method. We are, the majority of us, like hungry dogs begging for a bone which we are never going to get. How are we better than animals, then? No wonder our law lynches the citizens and our men rape our women. We are a barbaric hound that doesn’t understand Darwinism. We are happy being in the well because we’re afraid that the light may burn our skin. But we’re breeding dirt and filth all around in the dark and we don’t realize it because we, as a nation, are only too used to it by now. Isn’t that what we should talk about, too?

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We don’t talk about how even the mention of the word ‘Free’, or the asking of a simple question like, ‘Why’ can deem us anti-national, terrorists, traitors, offenders, sinners, unethical, immoral, or unholy. I don’t remember the mention of those words in the constitution, or in the preamble we solemnly swore to.

We talk about how everyone outside is the enemy but, we don’t talk about the snakes that are inside the house. We talk about how great and worthy our government is, but we don’t talk about how twisted the common mentalities are. We talk about reinforcing order but, we don’t talk about those breaking the laws. Why?

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We talk about sections, amendments and proposals. But, we don’t talk about constructive action, justice or implementations. We talk about the police, the books and the men. We don’t talk about the deaths, the atrocities and the women. We are not a talking nation, at all. We are a crying nation; a barking nation; a thundering nation. But we are not a hopeful nation; a promising nation; or a human nation.

We are not a nation at all. We are just a country with an ever-expanding population of savages trying to hold the chains and the reins so that the humans don’t get out.

But, we’re not talking about that at all.

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