Democrazy is a Democracy with religion-centricity.
Whatever said and done. It is our country. New wounds have been created that will take time to heal if we ever can recover. We, yet again found new means and tool to trace another line of no-control.
The reasons could be different.
We could keep shifting the blame.
We all have our own version of what the solutions can be.
The truth is Delhi Burned. The protests happened, and the relief was late. The reaction was cautiously slow. False news won hands down, and the right new failed to become viral. And anyway, you never had the way to differentiate them.
Religion-centricity enhanced polarisation. Events radically and rightly coloured in with Political hues. Ultimately, the man on the street lost. The common man fear got exponentially amplified to take bizarre shapes. The expression of angst fuelled by the religion skew found newer expressions.
We avoid a protest and any crowded assembly. We only check the wellbeing of our immediate surroundings. We are immune to events till they don’t touch us. We refuse to say anything, not because we did not have much to add, but because we are incapable of protecting our family members and ourselves. And we do not have confidence in the government-appointed agencies.
Democracy is the rule of representatives elected by the majority. And in the current situation, it may not be right to call us a democracy. All we have is the dominant majority is stifled by rules and regulations, constraints and coordinates.
The rule of the land is not even secular in nature though granted its status through the constitution. The minorities may use every possible way to keep their culture and religious learning’s protected and be immortalised by passing them to the next generation. Their religious donations can then be leveraged to further amplify this understanding of religious literature, culture, rituals and expectations.
The secular state does not provide the majority with a space to grow. The result, the constraints are chocking the process of passing the culture, ritual and religious expectations to the next generation. The impact is diluted and is questioned. In such a situation, it is natural that the majority culture and religious understanding is threatened to get extinct with time.
Everything seems to be created to help minority to flourish and the majority to be curbed. It is becoming tough to stop unidirectional mind conversation and conversion. Add to it the element of unidirectional religion expectations, and you have the model of Democrazy with religion-centricity.
Even if you remove the majority and minority issues, the CAA and NRC, the national issues are being challenged under the pretext of freedom of speech, which needs a new definition. Any challenge to national unity must be severely punished. Any call to agitate against the allow enforcer- police- intelligence or the army must be severely punished. Nothing of this nature must be enabled to bloom into an issue even in the name of peaceful protest.
The regional-polarity and religion-centricity must not have any space to create harm to the nation. It must not be allowed to bloom. And for that, what is required is complete secularity or complete religion-centricity. If the latter cannot be the way forward, then the nation needs redefinition and moves to real secularism.
In simple term, it means that the same rule applies to everyone, irrespective of caste, creed, religion, language, region or gender. All regional freedom in aides and teachings get replicated or withdrawn from everyone. Every Indian is treated with the same yardstick. Meritocracy becomes the rule rather than reservation.
Democracy needs an elected representative. Maybe Democrazy or dictatorial democracy, that is democracy in the time of religion-centricity is the need of the hour. Where everything is transparently simple and uniform.
BLOG/16/2020
