Politics of Change

Let me greet you, at the very outset, with a traditional ‘Namaste’ – which mothers a pious meaning that of - "I salute the God within you."
The cultural and spiritual heritage of this motherland has always professed and cultivated in its children a spirit of oneness, equality and sacrifice. As Swami Vivekananda says – “The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no ‘I’, but all is ‘Thou’.”

Looking around at today’s so-called tech or TED age scenario, we have almost lost the very in-evitable strength of spiritual, cultural and moral divinity. The era seems to be pregnant with blasphemous and chauvinistic terrorism; human, and in particular, women atrocities; social in-equalities and the like - all these at the cost of whimsically wheel-chairing the rampant and nasty politics breeded by the corrupt heavy pocketed netas and dadas.
Is it, thus, correct to define politics merely as governance? Or is it more of a concerted game of superiority, shrewdness, cunningness and conspiracy– or more pronounced a game of Change but mostly for the substantial worse!

This eight letter word, astonishingly, has the most number of collocations – left-wing, radical politics; party, partisan politics; contemporary, modern politics; sexual, gender politics; student politics – and what not ! Of course, to my mind, a part of the above enumeration is healthy, but majority paint a polluted picture of encroaching one’s time and career. To cite a few common symptoms, this grave disease of politics may engender owing to favoritism, bias, ego, entice, romance, professionalism, blind vying, and the like. And once infested, it deepens its roots to an incessant perpetuation and calamity.

The consequences are dire for a victim– from a psychological collapse, to displacement of shelter, to chained and orphaned freedom, to a dead life languishing in the shadows of shame and fear– too much to eat away one and change him, at once. Let us, therefore, try and combat this cancer - of the handicapped head line on a cruel palm, of the very infection off a dictator of whims and conspiracy and be-fittingly a mastermind of life-destructive politics of change!

Let me conclude, again, with the words of Swami Vivekananda –
“…Good motives, sincerity and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessing all these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.”