The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Monday, 30 December 2013

INDIAN POLITICS: GOOD TO SEE THAT INDIAN DEMOCRACY IS EXPERIMENTING AGAIN

Politics is a social science and in a country like India, the science of politics affects the social weaving in a major way – negative as well as positive.

Unfortunately, in India, the political scenario has been mostly negative with its ill-effects of corruption, apathy and elitism.

Family rule, nepotism, dynasties and unbroken chain of tenures have created fiefdoms of politicians, that slowly and gradually, in collusion with the spirit of the ‘political camaraderie*’ (as eulogized by a senior politician), have coalesced to form a parallel kingdom of many ‘princely’ states with politicians and their families ruling with ever-spreading tentacles.

The Kings, the Princes, the Princelings, and the Acolytes, and their Hegemony – and their Rule!


For an India of an indomitable democratic spirit, it has to broken, it has to be revered, to get aligned with the textbook functionality of politics (or the academically defined responsibilities of political science.)

Wikipedia has this to say on politics (in company with its different halos) – “Modern political discourse focuses on democracy and the relationship between people and politics. It is thought of as the way we ‘choose government officials and make decisions about public policy’.”

There are discourses, debates and definitions on ‘politics and political science’ but the crux has to be this. In India ‘this relationship between people and politics’ has been highly skewed in favour of the politicians.

Time has come to change that. 2011 revived a long forgotten spirit of the gravity of the peoples’ power with the anti-corruption movement of 2011. 2013 saw a step ahead in that direction giving power to an ‘apolitical political party’, just one-year old, with almost of the members having apolitical background. None of the ministers in the Delhi Cabinet have had previous political experience.

Yes, experiments these are; no need to certify them as of now; but can certainly be lauded. It is good to see that Indian democracy is now experimenting again, after a long time, keeping in centre the concerns of the common man, the voter, the person-next-door, a person like you and me.

That is the need of the day. That has to be the war-cry demand of the times we are living in, in a Republic that is also the world’s largest democracy.

The terms ‘politics of change’, ‘politics of values’ and ‘politics of ethics’ need to take the centre-stage of the political discourse in the country.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

*Never attack family: Digvijaya Singh's lesson on political ethics to Arvind Kejriwal
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/never-attack-family-digvijaya-singh-s-lesson-on-political-ethics-to-arvind-kejriwal-280101