Remember the call for boycott of the Tanishq ad last year where a hindu girl was shown married in a muslim family? The ad was intended to address the secularism in the nation. And that was their fault. They tried talking about something people in our country don't like. People like Godse and Savarkar are considered patriots by many. Few days later, we got boycott Bingo trending on the internet because of an ad where Ranveer Singh told some science terms and people claimed it was a jibe at late Sushant Singh Rajput and his love for science. Our collective love and sympathy for SSR led us to collectively hate the Bollywood community where we were enjoying seeing some of the celebrities being pulled in and probed and criticized and defamed. We are worrying about our privacy which would become vulnerable because of WhatsApp's revised policies, not realizing our media channels openly broadcasted somebody's private messages for weeks.
We enjoyed seeing JNU students getting beaten up in their campus. Because they are anti-nationals for some reason. Anti-CAA protests were claimed to be a plan of Pakistan to infiltrate India. Some of our politicians were never called out for inciting mobs and making hate speeches but some activists who showed up in Shaheen Bagh and extended their support to the protest have been facing criminal charges ever since. A stand-up comedian, Munawar Faruqui has been in jail for two weeks now because he is believed to have insulted Hindu gods and our Home minister, regarding which the police has no evidence whatsoever. Kafeel Khan's fault perhaps was that he showed the inefficacy of the UP state government in stressing much about the basic infrastructures in hospitals and hence had to stay in jail for years. The state government still can't believe they don't have him in the jail anymore. They even went to court challenging his release.
We found Hathras gangrape manohar kahani (fantasy story) and GDP fall not a serious issue worth talking about. COVID-19 is a serious issue when protestors are on the roads, but it's not that serious when the politicians take on the roads. As if that was not enough, we even talked about how India needs to suppress the dissenters after the Capitol Hill violence. And it's as if we made it happen by forming a committee to investigate the farm laws with people who have directly or indirectly extended their support to the government in favour of the new laws. The farm laws were brought as ordinances in the parliament and were passed and made into laws despite much opposition. The farmers were not consulted before framing the laws, as per a response from the government responding to a query filed under the RTI. And our government can't seem to find a way out to resolve the issue the farmers have with the laws and the farmers have had to be on the roads for over 50 days now (much more than that if we consider the period they were protesting in Punjab and Haryana). And they will have to be on the roads in the future as well. Because the government is clear that it won't repeal the laws. And the farmers have decided they are not going home without having these laws scrapped.
All of that I mentioned above can be covered in detail in separate articles. But that's the thing. This country doesn't have any shortage of issues if you want to talk about it. Don't forget I didn't mention the anti-conversion law in the above paragraphs. And oh yes, don't forget that Shivraj Singh Chouhan wants to come up with a plan of action where women will have to report in a police station before leaving their houses so that they could be tracked. And despite so much of problem in the country, we still find time to debate about how good our PM is on prime time shows.
Things look bleak for sure, but is everything out of hand already? Not yet. Atleast we will have to believe that. It's the toughest times our country faced when we found our biggest heroes. And the country is in a tough state right now. The whole world seems to be heading a wrong way for some reason. But we have fought back and we will fight back. When you see people not giving up in front of the government and the biased institutions, you know work for revival has already begun.
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