“Time” and “Tide” waits for none. Because, both of them means business.
In the latest report of “Time”
magazine, it meant only business and nothing else. “Time” knew it very well
that as on date nothing sells like “Modi” not even “Trump”. Hence, It took a
prudent marketing decision to place Mr Narendra Modi on the front page with a
sensational headline “India‘s Divider in Chief” written by an offshoot of
Indo-Pak parents.
“Time” is fully aware that
cover page with sensational tagline is itself more than enough for making the
opposition of India to celebrate and ruling party to outrage. Both ways it is
going to add to the market of “Time”.
However, when you go through
the article, you will come to know that this article contains nothing more than
a compilation of allegations and counter allegations hurled by BJP led NDA and
Congress led Opposition on each other.
Let us analyze “Time’s
Divider in Chief Article”.
When Rahul led opposition is
all up in arms quoting the report published in “Time” magazine, they forgot to
notice that the same report has ripped apart Nehru, Congress party and Mr Rahul
Gandhi, Priyanka and associates. Here is the extract of the report:
1. Indian
Muslims were allowed to keep Shari'a based family law while Hindus were subject
to the law of the land. Arcane practices such as the man's right to divorce a
woman by repudiating her three times and paying a miniscule compensation-were
allowed for Indian Muslims, while Hindus were bound by reformed family law and
often found their places of worship taken over by the Indian state." --
Secular Congress??.
2. "Nehru's political heirs, who ruled India for the great
majority of those post independence years, established a feudal dynasty, while
outwardly proclaiming democratic norms and principles. India under their rule
was clubbish, anglicised and fearful of the rabble at the gates."
--Democratic Congress??
3. "The country had a long history of politically instigated
sectarian riots, most notably the killing of at least 2733 Sikhs in the streets
of Delhi after the 1984 assassination of Indira Gandhi." - Congress of
Gandhian Values??
4. The incumbent may win again - the opposition, led by Rahul
Gandhi, an unteachable mediocrity and a descendant of Nehru, is in disarray"
-- Strong Congress led by intelligent Rahul??
5. "Modi has won- and may yet win again - but to what end?
His brand of populism has certainly served as convincing critique of Indian
Society, of which there could be no better symbol than the Congress party. They
have little to offer other than the dynastic principle, yet another member of
the Nehru-Gandhi family. India's oldest party has no more political imagination
than to send Priyanka Gandhi -Rahul's sister-to join brother's side. It would
be equivalent of the Democrat's fielding Hillary Clinton again in 2020,
with the added enticement of Chelsea as VP." - Politically bankrupt
Congress
Last but not the least--
6. "Modi is lucky to be blessed with so weak an opposition- a
ragtag coalition of parties, led by the Congress, with no agenda other than to
defeat him"
I do not close the study
half way. It is noteworthy for BJP led by Modi and NDA led by BJP to appreciate
certain genuine concerns being raised by various quarters of Indian ecosystem and
some of them have rightly found place in “Time” magazine report.
We as a civilized society
need to invest heavily on strengthening our old age philosophy of “सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः” and ensure that every citizen of the
society gets due respect and dignity. We have been failing on these account for
so long but if you want to be the change, if you want to be known as different
political material you cannot afford to keep caste and religion based
differentiation for long and yet try to maintain political niche.
My
appeal to India, stand united against all intellectual aggression, be self
critic, improve where need to improve, but for god sake don’t celebrate any foreign effort of your
degradation just because it may give you a bit of political mileage.
Jai
hind
