The Second Uprising

15th August 1947, the birth of a democratic nation; 15th August 2011, a wake up call to a sleeping beast or beauty, different perspectives, but same identity! Our times and recent past have been wrecked by massive political and economic riddles ; riddles we have created but without the privilege of having the answers to them. What the Pandit and the Mahatma had dreamt through countless, sleepless nights with passionate eyes and an even more passionate grit, in a decade which was sitting on the explosive side of the Second World War, was not the Sovereign in which we call ourselves Indians or Bhartiyas! The country today is like an artist's painting gone bad! And not because the canvas ran out of space to contain the ideas or the colors didn't show its true self but because the artist didn't realise that when the painting goes up for sale, the marketing is not in his hand!

Our governments, be it Congress, BJP or any of the umpteen coalition of stupidities that brought together a mob of dullards and cretins,has had an sweet romance with corruption. Its on their job profile. If you have character, you should be not in Politics, that's what the message they have given! Somewhere then we the people, and we the Nation have failed our selves by choosing the Governments, by a system what we frailly call as Voting system. Its like giving a fire arm to a chimp and hoping he has been trained enough not to shoot you!

But again, keeping that folly aside for a moment, did the Government make a colossal mistake by arresting a septuagenarian in the desperate attempt to keep its head up in drowning tsunami of suppressed anger slowly making its way out? Did they mistake the strength of his knees with the strength of his beliefs and reach! The answer is a resounding yes, such a deafeningly loud one that its going to resonate through the times and pages of history.For you have not entrapped the angel, but the beast he was guarding! The sound of democracy is ear splitting!

Every society needs an inspiration and more importantly a channel to voice and vent the oppression. A country fighting the daily struggles of inflation and its side effects, could do away with a few Rajas and Kalmadis, and if the people who are trusted with the responsibility of keeping it clean are doers of mess, they better have answers and course of action.

For people who sneer at the thought of what I regard as the Second Uprising, endorse the ideology and not the idealist.

For what the young bloods of yesteryears and today failed to do; providing a wakening call if not anything; a man in the twilight of his life has done. Age is just a number, our beliefs make what we are!