What do we-the-people want from the government?

Do people really want the government to govern them?

People can't seem to govern themselves but have disproportionately high expectations from the government to govern over them. But ... when they do, we-the-people don't like it.

If the adage 'freedom comes with responsibility' was ever true, it is now - as freedom is seen to be running amok. 

We really need to build a Statue of Responsibility next. 

Why do people have so many grievances against the government? 

One wouldn't have dared to utter a word against the kings but ever since we have replaced them with government, somehow we feel that it is our job to keep showing them their bad side in the mirror. 

However, those who have attempted governance on Self or at their own residential society, work place, community gatherings, industry association, etc. may view other's governance from the lens of empathy. 

They know, and deeply so, how difficult it is to maintain integrity in the immediate circle of influence while still having somewhat alignment with those outside in the circle of concern. 

In governance, there are so many interest groups, some opposing the other & pleasing all is a Herculean task. 

Development in a poor democracy is indeed a slow process. 

At a level, it is like solving a Rubik's Cube, requiring patience. 

A bystander could easily mistake the guy working on the Rubik's Cube, for someone who is just fiddling away - if one face of the cube is sorted, the other looks defaced. 

Those who have not attempted serious governance on any entity themselves, simply vent - blame, moan or whine ... the "poor me" / "bad them" syndrome. 

Notice their language, it is always locked in morals for others, like "They should" / "They must" ... in which government is the best punching bag. 

As if government employees aren't members of we-the-people community & ministers haven't been voted in by us. 

But blaming the government employees is a national pass time. 

And so the government is forced to focus only on the poor who are a larger vote bank, bribing them with freebies. Those who blame, moan, & whine don't even vote. 

In such a scenario, is it any surprise if development takes a backseat? 

In the final reckoning, the buck stops, where it begins ... me !

Let's talk Kashmir Files?

There are so many movies - watch Gestapo's Last Orgy; you'll get a sense of repugnancy, i promise.

There are both stationary & moving museums (they go city to city) on the atrocities on Jews arising from antisemitism across Europe & America. 

Go to Detroit and see the museums on atrocities on Blacks by Whites. You'll cry like a baby.  I did, along with other visitors Black & White alike. 

Nelson Mandela's illegal detention cell at Robben Island prison of 27 years is a tourist attraction.  

Recall, he was confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing, forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He could write and receive a letter only once every six months, and once a year he was allowed to meet with one visitor for 30 minutes.

The atrocities are well documented. The truth was revealed in Mandela's life time by the Whites, he became the country's leader. But to South Africans, he's God.

The erstwhile White supremacist regime have agreed to what they did to Blacks in South Africa. 

No riots have happened in any of these countries due to movies or museums or truth revealed openly. 

Had those countries kept hiding it all and if people keep learning from the WhatsApp University, it would be worse - a mayhem. 

Few years ago, there was a debate - if Ram Mandir should be built or not. 

Because the Indian population had then decided to dumb down their critical mind, that debate had the least attendance. 

The 2 of 3 speakers opposing the Mandir said something to the effect of - even if Ram Mandir should be built, it shouldn't; else the day the judgement comes, the whole country will witness riots and killing. 

Nothing happened, only the judgment did become - they found a hidden temple below the mosque. No riots. 

Dear Liberals, you have got it all wrong. 

The psychology of the Bharatia people is intrinsically plural.

There's not a single example in the world's longest history, where the people of this great land have attacked another, just because of difference in faith.

On the contrary, there are examples of the people of the land who have gone out of their way to offer comfort to the other faiths. 

It is this Indic philosophy's different & distinct "Cultural Secularism", which allowed for the Hindus to accept the Jews, fleeing from religious persecution & to provide them shelter; it allowed for making of one of the earliest mosque in the world i.e. Cheraman Masjid by a Hindu king for the convenience of his Muslim visitors; it allowed for the Ezharappallikal Churches in the first century itself within the Brahmin community at Malabar Coast, it allowed for a Hindu king to resettle the Parsis who were displaced from Persia including building a fire temple for them - one in which the builder king himself or his subjects agreed to not enter as requested by the Parsi immigrants.

If the movie Kashmir Files shakes up our population from it's warped morality induced stupor and ensures that it is becomes an alerted principled democracy, it would have served it's purpose. 

It is very important to forgive but it is imperative to not forget what happened. 

Those who don't learn from history are condemned to be taught a lesson by it again.

India is awakening by learning real history. 

Either we call ourselves as Liberal and celebrate the movie's freedom of speech or call ourselves as hypocrites. 

The unidirectional approach to freedom must end. Has to be multi-dimensional.

Just because fact is stranger than fiction, it can't be erased. Period.

All political & religious leaders must unabashedly call for an introspection on the Kashmir Files & deliver justice, so that it doesn't happen again.