Of Statues and Bridges, Giants and Dwarfs

This too, as the Buddha stated, shall pass. We will soon move on to some different titillating distraction. The skeletons within the CBI cupboard will absolute confidence maintain tumbling out and as the election campaigns warmth up, disastrous disclosures and revelations inflicting collateral harm are going to multiply. But we digress. Why should we in India stay enthusiastic about statues? True, we're a kingdom of idol worshippers and will be predisposed to raise politicians to status of deities. Sycophancy has lengthy changed hero worship. Whoever occupies a seat of electricity is considered an incarnation of Maryada Purushottam Ram or Yogeshwar Krishna. If it is a girl she will be able to effortlessly be idolised as Durga. But will we must explicit our (andh) bhakti in terms of the size of the statues we build and set up? Is commissioning statues the handiest way to honour folks who fought for independence, or to set up a simply social order? Can the opposition to 'undo the injustice' executed to forgotten remarkable men be allowed to keep all the time exacerbating sour divisions in society? The 'Statue of Unity' has served us properly via drawing our attention to 'opportunistic appropriation' in addition to the forget of the Makers of Modern India who failed to belong to the Dynasty. It's futile to pit Bhagat Singh or Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in opposition to V D Savarkar and M S Golwalkar. Contemporary India is very exceptional from what the aggregation of the territories dominated with the aid of the British and Indian Princes become almost one hundred years in the past. From Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore to Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Baba Saheb Ambedkar, now not each patriotic Indian had 'fought the British and long gone to Jail'. There are many freedom combatants whose memory is alive only in faculty history textbooks which can be constantly revised with the change in authorities. As a count of fact, Sardar Patel has fared a lot higher. The merger of princely states inside the Indian Union is ungrudgingly credited to him and ever since the Sino-Indian War of 1962, he is remembered as the man who had warned then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru about the Chinese threat. Nor can it's denied that folks that worship Nehru as an earthly, liberal, moderniser with a systematic outlook had a majority of these years controlled to portray the Sardar as a traditionalist conservative with an authoritarian streak and at coronary heart a sympathiser of what we call today forces of Hindutva. He can also had been restricted to ban the RSS after the assassination of the Father of the Nation, but then didn't he favour the reconstruction of a grand temple at Somnath? It's going to prove tough for the Congress to wriggle out of the tangled internet of its very own making. What the talk over the statue has exposed is the difference in stature of leaders then and now. It's no longer the scale that subjects however the style and substance that in the long run determine the mark a man leaves. A top notch man does not want a giant statue to preserve his memory alive, it's far men of smaller stature who worry about their vicinity in history. The unseemly fracas on the inauguration of the Signature Bridge ought to set off extreme soul-searching most of the leaders and supporters of both the AAP and BJP. Delhi government become graceless in not inviting the nearby MP, Manoj Tiwari, as protocol demanded. Nor did Tiwari conduct himself in a way anticipated and required of a Member of Parliament. In this age of virtual reporting, no longer an awful lot is misplaced in transmission. There is little scope of pleading 'miscommunication' or 'malicious reporting' in defence. The conceitedness of elected representatives isn't constrained to those political parties. A video published on social media confirmed Jyotiraditya Scindia flouting visitors policies oblivious of the presence of others on the street. Rules and regulations, it seems, are most effective for lesser mortals. Those charged with the duty of making sure the rule of thumb of law and protecting the citizen have luckily absolved themselves of this assignment. Policemen in uniform are content material to function minions in their masters. The dwarfs who are strutting the degree reputedly stay under the illusion that they could emulate the Vaman Avtar at will with the aid of reworking themselves into Titans. Pushpeshpant@gmail.Com Dailyhunt https://issuu.com/zeesenemaa

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