The Fictitious Democracy

2021 has been a quick journey from checking instagram stories to checking vaccine slots. It is no secret to any citizen with a phone in their hands that the vaccine policy has clearly failed in this great nation. From being the world's largest vaccine exporter to soon to be the world's largest vaccine importer, it was indeed a walk of shame. It wasn't something that the administration never saw coming. Infact they saw it coming from miles away and yet, the lack of responsibility is costing lives every second. Liberalisation of vaccine market at a time of crisis is arguably required according to some. But excessive liberalisation would result in the charioteer losing control over his horses and that's exactly what happened in India.                               (credits : BBC) The vaccination drive that started in January 2021, was a ray of hope to the pandemic cast world. But when rich nations booked...

We often see and read about the atrocities happening to the Palestinians at the hands of the dominant Israeli military and in the recent times, it has come down to a situation where it's even harder for one to read without shedding a tear. Unfortunately as people die out there, we as Indians can only be spectators and cry out for help or perhaps, learn from it. The Jews of Israel right after the second world war in the late 1940s, made it clear to the world that they are not ready to share the land with the Palestinian Arabs, especially considering the fact that they had the British motivation of division. It eventually lead to the exodus of the Palestinians after a 6 day war to refugee camps in Jordan, The West Bank, Gaza strip etc.  The disputes never ended. The wars raged on from time to time and more Palestinian blood was spilt over as more Israeli dominance took over. As time went on, wars kept increasing. Almost every peace attempt had failed and countless lives w...

Religion. Politics. These two aren't much different from each other today. Infact there could be a day when the blasphemy provision might also include hurting political sentiments as well. The only one little difference that laid between the two was that the former is injected to a person as a child, which has now slowly shrunk down to almost no difference. Injecting an ideology into a young mind that's still in its clay form is the morst cruel act a parent can do to their child. The free will of the young mind is been exposed to an undue influence. I have seen children who are only 10 years old wearing wrist bands and orange threads of a party and its goals they can't even spell. I have seen young comrades March up the roads, hoisting red flags and spilling blood on the roads rather than ink on the sheets. Not knowing for whom, not knowing for what they keep being enslaved to an opinion that was never theirs.  "Modi is the best", said the 13 year old,...

(Photo credits : The Indian express) The well praised Kerala's left government, isn't really left out from the forces of corruption (pun intended). Being praised for its efforts in battling the pandemic and for making one of the highest developed state in the country, people did give a blind eye to its flaws. Drawing a bigger line of goodness parallel to the bad, will definitely make the goodness look better but it will never erase the bad. It is through the public service commission examinations, candidates are selected for the state government jobs in various fields. From ordinary clerks to medical officers under the government sector, every one has to clear the PSC examinations and jobs will be provided according to the ranks. But here's where the tables turned in the state of Kerala. Ironically, the most literate state of the country, decided to ignore the knowledge of an individual and decided to consider the party alligiance. It was during the fall of 2019...

(cartoon credits : Sajith Kumar ) People who have lived their prime through the 1970s perhaps wouldn't need much new knowledge on what and how the emergency period was. The darkest era of democracy as someone once said and I quoted in a previous article. The similarities between the Indira government and the Modi government was pointed out in various ways and by various authors around the globe. The question of are we in a state of emergency today is indeed something that would make one hesitant to say no. Thanks to outrages among the citizens for their basic rights. If that sentence smelt like there was a tad pinch of annoyance in it, you weren't wrong. But this is not my point of view, it's the government's. Ever since 2014 to the present, the graph of conviction in sedition cases have gone uphil in a quicker pace, compared to those convicted in murders, rapes, human trafficking and much more. Maybe the pandemic graph is the only one that could be put on a...

  In the recent times with all the mess going around with the government, their ideologies and phrases being often termed as the death of constitution, end of democracy and what not, there are often times that we tend to forget, which in literal terms was the DARKEST AGE OF DEMOCRACY.      The emergency period. The 19 months emergency period that was declared on June 25th 1975 which then went on till 21st March 1977, was the literal definition of how democracy was murdered. The Allahabad High Court's  verdict on the case  Raj Narain vs Smt. Indira Nehru Gandhi And Anr.( 1972 AIR 1302 )   declared that the elections in which Indira had won, as void and she must step down from the office and also, placed a ban on Indira to compete for any office in the next 6 years shook the nation. The celebrations had started in parts of the country. The underdogs had won the big league but however, the celebrations didn't last for long. The counsel of Indira pleaded f...

       Hinduism, Hindutva, Haindava Dharma, the names go on and on. Perhaps one of the most controversial terms in the present circumstances of India, is Hindutva, which has been shoving its roots deep into the BJP, RSS and basically everything that is leaning towards the right winged politics. But what actually is Hinduism? Many people around have had various definitions among which it (hinduism) being a way of life stands out to be the most common. In today's India, basically every other caste, other than those belonging to the Muslim or Christian community somehow falls under the category of "Hindus". For centuries, the caste system prevailed in our great country that discriminated, oppressed and tortured a great section of the population and kept them aside for various wanna be reasons. These oppressed people have had an entirely different set of lifestyle from the so called privileged part of the society. So the question which grows forward is that How can Hind...