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Hypocrisy in our political times

2014 has been an eventful year in terms of politics. The last 2-3 years, especially, have been all over the news, social media and on every Indians’ mouth(that includes a chaiwala to a BMW driving executive).

Battle lines which were blurred from ages got clear. Camps began showcasing their arsenals and firing on all cylinders. Politics was the buzzword and rightly so, India seemed finally awake to issues like corruption, rape, inability of ministers to deliver. All the moves by the politicians were under the radar.

This was the part, of which every Indian should be really proud about. Indian youth finally had a vision of development and was willing to fight for his right. After all he is a citizen of the World’s largest democracy.

But here’s the catch. (There’s always a catch when it comes to politics).

The battle lines, the camps and ideological battles got more and more specific, targeted and got spread from being just display of point of views to becoming hardcore “fan boys” (even more than what Rajni fans claim to be) and believe me it wasn’t limited to just one side.

The idea of democracy keeps getting challenged every now and then, but the campaigning around this time actually redefined a lot of these parameters.

The government ruling the country was challenged, shouted and even abused for each of their wrong-doings, which are far too many to be listed. Every move was put under scanner, skeletons were dug up and a lot of political gimmick took centre stage. All of this was done by each of the opposing forces and highlighted by the media. Some even pointed out biases by each of the media houses as well to describe their innocence and adding another excuse to the ill treatment meted out by the media to them.

Time went on, elections became more of a marketing promotion scheme, where one brand scored over the other by winning more number of votes. And a new government was formed.

So, if you wonder what has changed ? Except new faces and names of politicians, nothing has changed.

The same opposition party (which is now in the government) now continues to toe the same lines when it comes to price rise. Ironically, the highlight of their campaign was the same price rise issue against the ruling party.

Nothing changed. Even the sight of a suffering common man.

Sadly, this remains out of bounds for the fan boys, who continue to dream of a changing India and are now busy propagating the line that “country needs development and for that price rise is essential”. Wow!! So much understanding??!!

Where was this when the previous government was making similar decisions?

Anyways, if this understanding does not highlight the kind of hypocrisy that these followers (aka fanboys) have, then nothing else will.

Everyone was right to blame the previous government for price-rise, but this government which “promised” to change it all, now has the right to do it all?

I haven’t used names anywhere in the article. Of course, it is no-brainer to whom I’m referring to. The main reason is, now even my thought process or criticism would be questioned. The same set of people who would abuse other politicians, are now ridiculing any criticisms regarding the “government”.

Hypocrisy could not have had a better example.

Hypocritical environmentalists!! Who me??? No way!!

By farooq

On September 26, 2012

In Random Philosophy

Hypocritical environmentalists!! Who me??? No way!!

I went out to buy some stuff from the nearby market with my friend, after it was all over, he requested for a poly-bag to the shopkeeper, “Bhaiya!! Ek polythene dena …”, which the shopkeeper didn’t entertain (of course, the reason for that for him was to not incur that cost of extra poly-bag). I obediently kept all the things in the other bag we had and moved on. On my way back I just thought, even after knowing what all effects a poly-bag may have on the environment, we still don’t think twice before asking for one. Don’t we know that polythene is non-biodegradable and hence when we throw it out into the open (which we do quite regularly) will remains there for a long time. Long time implies a really long time (Seriously, this thing just doesn’t refuse to let itself die as if poking fun at mortals like us.)

Polythene pollution( if at all I can term it like that) affects not just human life and society by clogging down drains and being an irritant littering agent but also for animals ( terrestrial as well as aquatic) who swallow it and let me tell you it does not get digested. There was this story I heard that some kilos of poly-bags were recovered from a cow’s body!!!

Even with so much of ill-effects, it is still used widely because of no close substitutes. One can of course afford to carry their own bags instead of poly-bags (but who bothers??).

Government had even banned those small guthka/pan masala sachets as these are the naughty little ones who are omnipresent to litter around the town. Similar things had been done with poly-bags (but then again, who bothers??). Who cares about government banning anything?? Even music downloads from illegal websites is banned. The thing is, we are happy with disobeying the government orders but cry foul when the government does it. We protests in the form of calling a “bharat bandh”, where we make it happen by forcefully closing down shops and stopping public transport and even resorting to violence in the name of bandhs. As our finance minister P.Chidambaram remarked during a recent bandh (there are so many, I can’t even tell which one exactly), “they have called a bandh to protest against the government concerning economy and it is ironic that the form of protest has caused greater economic losses”. So, apt.

What I intended to say was, we are a hypocritical society of uncivilized people who only try to portray themselves as something which they are not.

Hypocritical environmentalists. Who me?? No way!!!!

We shout out to others, to help save the environment yet leave out water taps or lights switched on, throw away used stuff into places, thinking the whole world is our dust-bin. I can surely brag about the fact that one night (during some sleepless night before the exam), I went to each of the rooms in our hostel floor and switched off some 10-12 lights!!!! This is just the case of one floor of 10 rooms, now go figure what all things happen in each house in each city. We say we care, but do we??? We don’t think twice before asking for another poly-bag from the shopkeeper. We “forget” switching off lights and fans as we are in a hurry; we just can’t help ourselves from ablution the dirt of this whole dirty world by using as much water as we can and at the end of it all, we still say, we care!! But seriously, lemme ask again, Do we????

I don’t want an answer. No one wants one. But just for a thought, that the next time we say “we care”, we mean it.

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Hypocrisy of the Indian Political Times!!

Hypocritical environmentalists!! Who me??? No way!!