You are meant to have everything
you love and desire. Your work is meant
to be exciting, and you are meant to accomplish all the things you would love
to accomplish. Your relationships with
your friends and family are meant to be filled with happiness. You are meant to
be living your dreams- all of them. Because you live in the country called India,
Democratic India. US took 144 years for
confirming voting rights to women and 188 years for African American, our constitution
has allowed it within 3 years after India’s Independence. With such vividness,
on 26th January 1950 we became World largest democracy and secular
with all its diversity. But the recent incident of Salman Rushdie is harming
the secular image of our country before the world.
There is difference between being
secular and pleasing every person of country.
The main reason behind all this controversy was UP election, where UPA
and BJP are trying their level best to please their vote bank. Media is also not behind to spoil our India’s
Image just for gaining higher TRPs. For discussing this bold topic they are
introducing orthodox people like Imam ##### and Praveen Togadia in their talk
show; wtf, why not Azim Premji and APJ Abdul Kalam who are not flag bearer of
any Community. Obvious reason is that, they don’t give damn to such Incidents, they
know it very well that Education can only curb this gap.
Same thing happened with M F
Hussain, till his last breath he wants to visit India. But on his death, every newspaper
from English to Hindi, everyone was remembering him. It was only because of his
inviolable contribution in Indian Painting. In the stage of Jaipur Literature
Festival, which is largest literary event in Asia-Pacific, government are not even
allowing Author to address via Video-conferencing. All these events are
organized in order to motivate the upcoming talent of our Country; possibly
after seeing all such controversies no writer will be motivated.
But it’s for sure again some
Rushdie or Hussain will be born, again he will break the boundary and again
same controversies will happen. Biggest question is when will all such things stop,
when are we going to enjoy the real democracy? How many republic days and
independence days we need to free from communal knots?
Some people say, it’s not
possible in country like India. History has proven that those who dare to
imagine the impossible are the ones who break all human limitation. These
people are not born to struggle, not to worry about society preferences, not to
suffer each day. They are born to experience life to the fullest. That’s the
reason, people like Rushdie wins prestigious Booker Prize and gain worldwide
acclamations. They never felt to be limited under certain boundary for pleasing
society, they believe in freedom of expression. Every decision they made in
their life is based on how they believe. If such conservatism continues, even
after 100 years of republicanism we will be environed under futile issues.
