Bharatiya people are settling for bogus leadership

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--- Mohan Gupta <mgupta wrote:

 

> "Mohan Gupta" <mgupta

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> Bharatiya people are settling for bogus

> leadership

> Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:55:45 -0400

>

> Bharatiya people are settling for bogus leadership

> The old adage is surely true. "Without vision,

> people will perish" And future historians will

> define our current political leadership as

> functionary rather than visionary.

>

> Our leaders appear to be obsessively

> concerned with maintenance status quo and distracted

> by worries regarding their own wealth. This desire

> caused them to ignore urgent national needs.

>

> Near sighted as it is, concern with the

> bottom line means the adopted formula for success is

> entrepreneurial skill and comfortable capital, and

> the myth of upward mobility is being on the A - list

> rather than a sense of community. Such a posture is

> exclusively mercantilistic, aggressively,

> acquisitive and determinedly jingoistic.

>

> One of the results is the achingly

> painful lack of a feeling of Bharat's greatness.

> Cynically, Bharatiya people have settled for bogus

> leadership and lost faith in our political system.

> Look, for a moment, at the embarrassingly low

> percent of registered voters who bother to cast

> their votes. Even more embarrassing, what per cent

> of young voters made any effort to cast their

> ballot?

>

> Perhaps such apathy was the result of

> the uninspiring and uninspired candidates who wanted

> the power to rule, but did not possess the political

> integrity to govern. Or may be it was because none

> of the political aspirations had any conception of

> the redemptive power of Bharatiyan idealism.

>

> Sadly, rather than responding to John F.

> Kennedy's assertion: "Ask not what your country can

> do for you, but ask what you can do for your

> country," Bharatiya leaders typically respond with

> "Ask not what your country can do for you but what

> you can do for yourself." Hunting for that honest

> person, one might argue: "The currency of our lives

> has lost its value."

>

> While we hope for visionary leadership,

> we get management: we hope for stature, but we get

> posturing and image refining; we get glibness or

> dithering for insightful wit. Instead of national

> pride, we get egotism and instead of innocence, we

> get wholesale forgetfulness.

>

> Indeed, when we look at the quality of

> our county's leaders, some past and most present,

> many people are convinced that the people of Bharat

> are indeed greater and perhaps always have been

> greater than its leadership. It is no wonder that

> ethnic and racial identities have become more

> significant to each of us rather than a community of

> Bharatiya people. We are living in a culture which

> has lead you and me from respect for the human

> individual and worship the image building

> falsifications of commercial products, to

> politicians more interested in personal financial

> reward than public service.

>

> Can we conclude that we are living in an

> era of decadence, in government, education,

> communication, reading habits, art, music, as well

> in our collective attitudes to what life and

> happiness meant?

>

> We have not been concerned with our

> common needs and common difficulties; we are easily

> seduced by those who canonize private desires into

> rights.

>

> In such a world, one philosopher has

> asked: "But if the rich are too rich and the poor

> have nothing to support them in bad times, then how

> is liberty's tree to be nourished?"

>

> Jacques Barzun, a teacher and scholar;

> defined human tragedy as that which is devoid of the

> spiritual elements: Great populations without a god

> outside themselves will turn to national war or race

> hatred to find that glow of common sacrifice and the

> call of transcendence the human spirit requires."

>

> We live in an age where six percent of

> the world consumes 50 per cent of the wealth

> generated overall; where $ 2 million is spent on

> armaments each passing minute; where 30 children die

> every 60 seconds, where a country where education is

> compulsory, education has become a problem not of

> fluency but of mere literacy.

>

> For many of us, one of the antidotes to

> such degradation is education. Universities exist to

> preserve, disseminate and contribute to our culture.

> It is no accident that we speak of cultured people

> as cultivated. They are those who have been enriched

> by study, writing, dialogue, by the versatility of

> subjects pursued. John Henry Newman once said, "We

> perfect our nature, not by undoing, but by adding to

> it what is more than nature, and directing it toward

> aims higher than its own."

>

> We can be, as a matter of habit like

> Socrates or Diogenes and deflate pretense or

> chicanery with honest skepticism and tolerate

> mediocrity.

>

> But this takes care, conscience, craft

> and concentration, reminding us of Goya's warning:

> "In the sleep of reason, monsters are born."

>

> We can become dissenters, demanding only

> that which is worthy of life and worthy of us. The

> poet John Ciardi once said that we often judge a

> person by what engages his/ her attention and that

> is doing things as well as possible.

>

> Henry David Thoreau once wrote: "That

> which is done well once is done forever - the power

> of the imperishable example.

>

> In May 2005 Left parties held a conference in Delhi

> at Constitutional Club under the banner of "Sahmat",

> where the topic of communalism in education was

> discussed. Many people from left as well as secular

> parties expressed their views. To Irfaan Habib, who

> is associated with History department of Aligarh

> Muslim University, saw saffron colour all around in

> education, He said that for the secularism in

> Bharat, purification of education is essential, and

> saffron colour must be removed from education. He

> said without removing the safforisation of

> education, Bharatiya education is useless. His views

> about safforisation in education was broadcast by

> many televisions in Bharat, even many stations

> broadcast commentaries on the views of Irfaan Habib.

> One commentator even said that during BJP rule, it

> was not the safforisation of education only; even

> culture was turned to Hindutva mold. That

> commentator said that Bharatiya culture should be

> purged from Hindutva mold as well.

>

> Many Bharatiya people and Hindus want

> that in education and culture, there should not be

> any change or pollution by foreign views, education

> and culture should be associated with the soil of

> Bharatiya earth, and people do not want education

> and culture should come from the biased from

> pseudo-seculars and leftist parties and Muslim and

> Christian communal parties.

>

> In educations only those people should

> comment that are associated with the soil of truly

> Bharatiya culture and Bharatiya soil. Card holders

> of communists cannot be experts in educations, who

> got inspiration from China and Russia and have no

> roots in the soil of Bharat. Communism has abolished

> from Russia and China, but Bharatiya communists keep

> carrying the corpse of Communism on their shoulders

> for ever. Islam and communism has no roots in

> Bharat, but has come together under the umbrella of

> secularism to oppose anything which is associated

> with Hindus or Hindutva.

>

> So called historian Joya Imran, wants to

> review all the books used in all schools run by

> Hindu organizations like Vishva Hindu Parishad or

> RSS. But neither Ifraan Habeeb, nor Dr. Joya Hasan,

> nor any body else made comment on the type of

> education given in Madrasas, while even West Bengal

> government has said that the activities of Madrasa

> are objectionable. Many teachers in Madrasas are ISI

> agents. In all the Madrasas, education about Jihad

> is given. In all madrasaas, even nation flag is not

> unfurled on Independence Day 15 August. In the

> conference, all participants expressed sympathy for

> Muslims and expressed support for Madrasas and

> opposed expressed anger over those Hindu

> institutions where human and universal education is

> imparted and love for the mother land Bharat is

> taught.

>

> ''Every Hindu is convinced as ever that

> our Nation and Hindu Parties both need-now more than

> before-the vision, wisdom, superior understanding of

> issues, unparalleled experience and rare human

> qualities of selflessness and generosity that are

> embodied in the combined leadership of leaders like

> Lok Manya Tilak, Swami Vivekananda, Sardar Patel,

> Arvind Ghosh, Madan Mohan Malviya etc..'' Bharat

> does not need leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal

> krishan Advani, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Mantama Gandhi,

> Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav etc.

>

> Bharat has been ruled by foreigners for

> a long time now. In 1947 we got freedom, but only

> partially. Anti-Hindu Nehru was imposed by

> Mountbatten on Indians who believe in personality

> cult. Even now we are not totally free. A large

> section of the media is on the pay-roll of foreign

> powers, thanks to rampant corruption and craze for

> money among

>

> Indians, mainly Hindus. Hindus are not only cowards,

> but also fools, who fight among themselves and

> strengthen anti-Hindu forces just to safeguard their

> egos.

>

> An example of foolishness of Hindus is their talk on

> Ram Mandir, which was aimed at uniting Hindus, but

> which has been a cause for infighting among Hindu

> organisations. Many Hindu leaders love an enemy of

> Hindus in preference to a Hindu, who differs from

> them in an opinion.

>

> Hindus need not gloat over the survival of their

> culture when it is under severe threat from

> anti-Hindu forces at present with a Christian super

> prime minister as the executive head of the country.

>

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