India needs to ink ‘present’ history

People are at their wit’s end. Power and politics make normal life of the common man miserable every passing day. The rich are getting richer and poor poorer. More and more people go to bed hungry and food security of the nation is threatened by myopic reform measures and hardhearted approach towards farmers and their pressing needs. And life goes on as usual with a lot of din and bustle and nowhere is a politician seen suffering from any sort of shortages. They are leaders and their deeds are recorded as history. That is the ‘most unkindest cut’ of all, the worst a nation could do to its future generation.

In this nation of millions and millions and millions, nothing great gets recorded or noticed, nor is anything getting abhorred either. Here everything goes. Look around and see for yourself how happy politicians and their henchmen are, how self sufficient they are when it comes to their positions and power sharing practices. They all have only one colour, the colour of power. They all have only one mission. It is election and its manipulations. Taking the nation forward is naturally done by the people who have the least say in what we call democratic participation. It is a kind of participation which means, one party or the other or a set of parties will come to rule the rest after every election.

How many elections have this nation seen so far? How many leaders worth the salt have passed by all these election processes? What has the proportion of their representation been? Are we going to have visionaries like Nehrus and Patels and Gandhis and Tilaks? Do we not have them around us? I strongly believe that we have plenty of such souls around us. Unfortunately, it is our nasty political order that keeps this nation undermined and underdeveloped. Cleansing is the need of the hour. Political cleansing. All other social, administrative and governmental evils will stop to exist if a few visionaries could be spotted from these millions and let the reins of the nation remain in their hands. Their deeds will have to be recorded as history. At present we have no history worth recording.

We do not need politics and politicians anymore. India needs true Indians. All these so called political leaders who claim to have their slots in the history of the nation need to be dumped in the bins or back burner of history, and thus redeem the nation from the clutches of corruption, red-tapism, nepotism and favouritism. These evils have done the nation enough damages, and these damages are their legacy. It is not history. We need to have a new history written by true Indians.

History need not be the record of actions that happened in the past. Rather history needs to be the record of the present. It is time our nation had some men and women of vision to ink its history as it happens day in and day out through their own words and their corresponding deeds. Power needs to be wrested from positions of all types, and positions of all types need to breathe in power to the populi. History is their words and deeds. India can hardly afford to have these ‘political brokers’ any longer.