Telling The Hate Tale

I read a very appealing book by Amartya Sen during my undergraduate – “The Argumentative Indian”. It glorifies the Indian culture of making arguments using logical reasonings which is deep rooted since centuries when our very own ancient and mythological scriptures like ‘The Mahabharata’ tells the tale of conflicting opinions and how to deal with the good and get rid of the bad ones efficiently. Since then, it inspires people to take the best route that India has always taken at least if we look at its decision taken under the pressure of the colonial regime to the days since we got independence. A lot has changed starting from the social, cultural to the political landscape of India along with the world. But even there, India has always made the difference in the geopolitical stage with its completely bold, unbiased stand that only helped herself to be a self-sufficient one.

But instead of glorifying that image of India, I am worried about the degradation of her values which is on threat imposed by our own politicians. I don’t want to refer them as leaders because there are very few of them left now – better to go with the larger representation of the politicians in India who knows nothing than doing politics for the good of one’s own. In this twenty-first century, I would even go to an extent in calling them as the most radical Hindu politicians or the most radical Muslim politicians and so on for the other groups too. But what I hate more is about the process how these politicians are running the country – they are doing so by their words and not actions. And more concerning is about the emptiness of these words which seems no more intellectual, logical, reasoning, or fact-based. Their languages are fun based and limited to the blame game. This is so much fun that even the comedian Prime Minister of the Ukraine do not hold the humor these days as the Indian politicians hold. I would not have even expressed my concern till these fun making speeches turns into a discriminatory note for the political gains.

I am now talking about politicians spewing poison through their speeches and turning one community of people against another. India has never witnessed the communal polarization as intense as it is today. I agree that India had witnessed one of the world’s greatest tragedies in its soil – the Partition based on religion led to the deaths of thousand innocents from different communities and religious backgrounds. This may be a very cruel to make this point, but I believe that unless the violence erupts – the communal tensions grow more intense. And if we see the period of the communal tensions that was stored till the larger violence during the partition took place – we must consider the grave consequences that India had to borne after that. So larger the period of the communal tensions, greater the loss it bears. This imply that either the idea of Hinduization of the radical Hindu groups in India or the idea of Islamization of the radical Islamist groups in the world have been nurturing these communal tensions for so long now. This long period storage of communal tensions has already converted into hates and leaking these hatred into the riots and violence from time to time and may worsen the situation till it bursts into a genocide like situation.

This is for sure that a genocide is much awaited in India and in different parts of the globe too and we will see it soon. I only agree to the fact that as quickly as we see the genocide, there will be a release to the tension soon.