We Succeed.
India failed to literate it's people, we failed to literate our society and one failed to literate its family. That's my opinion after watching a National Award-winning Movie Newton (2017). I am a student of political science, and as I have studied in my graduation, that there are many issues within the structure of Indian administration. India lacks its roots of democracy on its a huge land. This movie is a visual representation of it.
How have we failed? Is there something the Governments can't do? Or it's just the people who are happy with their backgrounds of illiteracy? If these are not the factors, then why there is absence of Democratic ideas in most of the parts of India? Having all these questions in my small mind, I am unable to sleep. As I recall, one of my college professors Dr. Ashish uses to teach the issues of the Tribal areas as well as the militancy in some areas. Are these areas militant because of lack of education or there is absence of school, colleges due to militancy?
The fact is that major part of India treated these areas as 'Not Up to Their Mark' and as another professor use to say, "Minority is always suppressed." India exploring the South Pole of the Moon, but still far away from its own land.
India calls itself Largest Democracy in the world, the election procedure of India is a model for newly formed nations as well as established Democracies. But is this election a self-made portrait of India? A huge population is still not aware of their rights and the value of their votes. Or else we can say that Majority of the people casting their vote, are not even aware of the candidates of their region. Either they are asked to cast their vote to a particular symbol by their friends, family members or else they choose the symbol which is known to them, or they can recall from any ads or something. Most of the elections in the Country are just filling the gap of voting percentage, nothing else other than that.
Not only in the Tribal areas, but the issues of gap filling voting are also existing in the majorly rural areas. Women are always asked by their father, brother, husband, son or any male member to cast their votes to Their knowns. It is possible that she doesn't even know the candidate and voting them only because they have been asked to do so.
India lacking its Democratic values and faking it more. Like a heron do in a pond. It stands on a foot, lifting another foot up, closing its one eye and pretending to be a pillar or something and fools the fishes of the pond to capture them and fill its empty stomach. Ambedkar had a vision that enlightening one generation can create our society reasonable and livable. But we failed to achieve so, we still failing. Our customs and our "so called" values are the hurdle I suppose, nothing else.
We are trapped in our values, and our ideas of good and bad. How sarcastic are the words that says, "we are from good family, these things don't suit our values" and we keep neglecting the people who aren't from good families. What are these 'not good families' trends? who knows. These good family humans appreciating their existence and on the other hand, 'not good family' humans are fighting for their existence, or better say, surviving in their existence. Nobody looking at their conditions and trying to lift them. Maybe the idea of 'not interfering with the liberty of other' stopping them. This race of the masses left them behind because they were not fit to run.
I have talked too negative, as some will say. So, let me just correct my statements. We succeed to achieve the essence to Dead Democracy. We succeed in neglecting minorities. We succeed to establish 'good families' and we succeed to mark a few backwards as 'bad ones.' We succeed to achieve the milestone of running the Largest Election, and we succeed to make it worthless.
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