Sunday, July 14, 2013

The two extremes

There are certain natural phenomenons in a society which will always exist no matter what is the situation. As we can't overcome our instincts, we can't overcome our flaws. Can I say flaws are part of society and in order to reinforce it I will take an example of the biggest democracy of the world, India. This democracy inherits another record of having the biggest constitution. But the interesting part is that the extreme of this multicultural society always escape this huge bulk of constitution. In the lowest extreme of poor tribal living in the lonely forests and the upper extreme of rich industrialist and public representatives living in sybarite metros. Recently I was going through a special edition of a nationally acclaimed magazine listing the richest youngsters in the country. I was expecting a trend of nepotism but the extent of it was tremendously beyond my expectation.

It was easy to observe several dynasties of industrialists who bug inside our lives in form of our needs and sap our money to pass it on to their next generation. Doesn't it indicate that there forefather did the same with our forefather's, so that they can do the same with us and the process can continue. Looking at the industrialist profiles I realized most of them are in 3rd to 6th generation of there industrial family line. Even in some cases they legacy continued from the time of Mughals. If the facts are true then isn't this indicate that no matter what is the status of the country, anarchist, imperialism, democracy, a part of richest strata always remain fixed. I wonder whether these changes affect there life at all. On the other extreme the tribal were tribal in all these situations and they are still not aware of any nation like India.

This thought sparked a revolt of ideas in my mind and took me to a frame where I see the whole nation with an alien eyes. The perception about the system made me feel that we are living in a democracy of not more than a name. Where rich get richer and poor get poorer , the unaware tribal not only remains unaware but also get exploited by the players of democracy.                   

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