Yesterday Plato woofed a very interesting point about the Indian democracy। He philosophised that, “the price Indian men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by Congressmen”।
Now, to be fair to Kangressis, Plato, my rabid dog with profuse anal wisdom and sensitive political nose, was actually applying analogism on the quote of a more famous Greek namesake of his.
But is that entirely untrue?
The recent public apathy witnessed in the aftermath of the desi watergate scandal is pretty revealing in this context. Despite my shameless hindu skin, I remain amazed at the nonchalance of the Indian middle-class regarding the circumstances surrounding the phonetapping incident. Just the thing Plato was talking about.
The governmental impropriety in infringing the sanctity of the political opposition is most blatant. That’s because, the essence of a genuine democratic polity is the ‘right to organisation’ for all its dissidents. And the phone-tapping incident clearly points out the fear and the eagerness of the establishment to set these dissenters in their places.
In a political system, wherein the establishment does not shy from undermining its dissenters using immoral means, it doesn’t take too much to imagine the fate of the mango-man who is devoid of any political influence; and has had an unfortunate brush with the system.
Case point: Ruchika Girhotra. The tyranny mounted on her is indicative of vehemence which the neo-colonial system extracts on its hapless victims. It also underlines the fact that India is an autocratic police state with quasi-democratic façade that wants’ to perpetuate the interests of the ruling class.
So, in a setup where the predominant resource of the intelligence apparatus is dedicated to political intelligence (Read: espionage and covert action on opposition), we can hardly clamour about us being a liberal democracy.
As for the mango-men, we shouldn’t be protesting about the seeming unstopability of the terror attacks from now on. After all, our agency is all too hard-pressed and undermanned in eavesdropping on Advani & Karat to get distracted by the Hafiz Saeeds of the world.
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P.s:
To Quote Desi version of Patrick Henry: “…..I don’t know what you people may decide, but as of for me, give me dollars and give me H1B”.
