Democracy is hypocrisy as long as wall of shame exists in India
World’s two ‘biggest’ and ‘greatest’ ‘democracies are exhibiting their strength today in the most undemocratic way. Gun trotting policemen and security agencies will cover the entire Ahmadabad today particularly the routes where Donald Trump and Narendra Modi are ‘ road show’. Here, the people can’t come at their own but at the whims of the rulers and Trump is expecting 10 million people on the road, perhaps he wish to see and ‘cherish’ India’s millions as he narrated this on a number of occasions on his twitter handle and to the crowd of Republican party in the United States. Both the leaders are loudspeakers and love themselves too much. They speak of their ‘country first’ and nothing else. As Modi is a great Hindu, Trump is a great Christian and feel that India must favour America while Indians feel that they will do more than what they can to ‘please’ the Americans. Indian right wingers even in the heydays of the cold war never liked our proximity to Soviet Union and always wanted to be ‘acknowledged’ by the Americans. Today, when American president is here it is reflected clearly of what Baba Saheb Ambedkar long back said our society. He said, this society can’t treat any one as equal as it believes in ‘ascending order of reverence and descending order of contempt’. President Trump would watch ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam’ that India is ‘known’ for which always ’embrace’ the guests provided they must be ‘white skinned’ and have ‘dollars’ in their pocket. Our Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam is never meant for those who are considered to be ‘below’ us. The wall of Shame and contempt that is erected from the airport till Motera Stadium only shows how we try to cover up our poverty. If Gujarat government was so worried about that Trump should not watch the poverty, actually it exists in the minds of the policy planners. Stories of shame from Gujarat For the last few days there were various stories of shame from Gujarat but neither media nor political leadership in Gujarat and at the national capital bothered about. The girls in…
