Jago India

Partition of India or creation of Pakistan was the result of ‘Divide and rule’ policy of the British, or of ego or personal aspirations of a few individuals who were at the helm of affairs at that time, or the natural outcome of intolerance of two communities for each other, is a matter of debate.

But one thing is clear that it caused a huge damage to both the communities and nations, and left deep wounds and a burning fire.

As would have been natural, this fire should have died down and wounds healed, with the passage of time and cooling of passions. It should have happened fast because two people had lived together for thousands of years and had common culture, language, food and values.

But it did not so happen.

One of the reasons was that this situation of hate and enmity for other country did come handy to the governments of both the countries, first for consolidating the newly created nations, and later to keep the attention of its people diverted from real issues, in which their own performances were not dismal but shameful. So both of them kept fueling the fire. Situation remains unchanged even today.

But in this process they did great disservice to both their nations. Scarce resources, that should have gone into improving the health and education of populations and creating vital infrastructure went into military build up and fighting wars with each other. This resulted in both the countries becoming poorest of world’s countries, with half of their populations going to bed with only one diet a day.

The situation, however, provided a gold mine to the weapon hardware producing countries of that time mainly USA and USSR. These and other countries dumped their rotten weaponry systems in these two countries and took away whatever was in their hands. Rulers of these two countries unmindful of the pitiable condition of their populations, kept on doling the meager wealth of their nations in exchange of the weaponry, which was mostly to remain unused.

So intense was the propaganda unleashed in these two countries against each other that even finest of the brains failed to understand the game. This negative propaganda has blindfolded us to such an extent that our minds don’t receive anything positive on the other side.

A common perception planted in the minds of Indians is that there is hardly any Hindu population in Pakistan and none of them holds position of any significance in Pakistan.

Following news item which appeared on the first page of ‘The Times of India’ news paper on 18th March,2010, proves contrary to this perception:

“Pak Hindu MPs stage walkout over terror slur”

Islamabad: Chaffing at a Lahore high court judge’s comment that Hindus were financing terror attacks in the country, nine Hindu members of Pakistan’s National Assembly staged a walkout in protest on Wednesday.
‘‘The sentiments of four million Pakistani Hindus are hurt by Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif ’s uncalled-for remarks,’’ said Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker Ramesh Lal. No sooner did he say this on the floor of the House, he was joined by other Hindu lawmakers who then walked out. Members of the Awami National Party, too, joined in, and their protest was described as the first in Pakistan’s House against the judiciary…”

There are a large number of other misconceptions planted in the minds of populations of both the countries, which are far away from the truth or reality .

There is thus a need to change these wrong perceptions against each other, in the minds of both the people, as these are doing a great deal of harm to both the countries.

Friendship between India and Pakistan shall benefit both the countries in following ways:

1. Reduction in defense expenditure of both the countries.
2. Increase in trade between them.
3. Availability of health and educational facilities of India to the population of Pakistan and vice versa.
4. Greater say for the region at international forums due to their putting up of joint front.
5. More tourists coming to the region due to peace.

Hi, let us make a new beginning.  Let us start  thinking  on how can we make India a better place to live in.

Some people are of the view that most of Indians are so uncivilized, illiterate, backward, dirty, undisciplined, selfish, corrupt, irrational and lazy that nothing can be done of this country.

But there may be some valid justifications behind these properties of some or many of Indians. 

Many anti social elements have sabotaged, and have taken over India’s parliamentary system, and  have become leaders of this country.  Writ of these musclemen politicians run so large that even when they are in jail, people of their area cannot dare to vote against them. Population of a country of corrupt leaders cannot remain honest for a long time.

Corners of Indian ‘metros’ which are jam packed with human beings  are full of human waste, because there are no public toilets in large areas. Floating population, who have no houses in that area, is left with little choice.

Indians masses are uneducated, sick and dirty because of bad education system and poor food quality control, sanitary and health services. Corruption and uncontrolled growth of population, particularly in families who even cannot support themselves, does not allow the things to improve.

In the nutshell there may be some valid reasons for all the ills of this country. 

If optimistic, positive and like minded people of this country can come together on a platform, discuss these problems, find out solutions and start working on those solutions, definitely things can improve for better. 

Unfortunately the section of Indian society, who can really make a change i.e. educated middle class, is not aware that it is only they who can make a change.

Time is waiting for them to wake up.

Tragedy of this country is that we all are looking towards politicians. But all politicians, whether of this side or that side,  are well aware that they shall not have their say,  if population of this country becomes educated and well off. It is in their interest to keep the population illiterate and poor, because only then it remains their vote bank. It is this uneducated and poor  section of population that brings them to power. This is the reason that after 60 years of independence, no policy worth its name has been made to control the population that cannot even support itself. Any normal person knows that with this unchecked growth of poor illiterate population India cannot become an advanced country. Recall the hordes of pregnant women beggars with huge number of starving tattered children in their laps, begging on the traffic signals of Delhi. Also recall the other poor children begging there, who have been left to starve and die after given birth. Limbs of some of them physically damaged to make them more pitiable.

Jago India is an attempt to create a forum of Indians who want to participate in the  efforts to do something for this country.

First step in this direction would be to identify and prioritise areas where maximum efforts need to be directed. This would be done by taking views of maximum number of people. Some way would be devised to arrive at a consensus on this matter. When such priority areas are identified, we shall start discussions on how to address the problems.

So start thinking on the subject and come out with a list of problems, which if addressed, would make India a better place to live in.

Your response is eagerly awaited.

Jago India.