The Death of a Nation
1947 saw the Birth of a Nation. Will 2026 to 2027 see the death of a Nation? Towards what? A Post Democratic satellite state of a neo-colonial global order? What we are witnessing in Delhi as of right now, is the death of democracy as we know it.
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Death of democracy in a land where will of the people has been what guides the supreme responsibility for whoever/whatever body assumes the role that requires the practice of Raajdharma. Governance in this sub-continent and geographical context has never thrived without the will of the people. Ever, in History. Even Akbar had to bend the knee for the Mughals to thrive. Civil war has destroyed Hindurashtra(s) in this geographical context before. Case in point the decline of the Vijaynagara Empire after the death of Krishnadevaraya. And the current Hindurashtra running from Delhi, is failing its Raajdharma, by creating ideal conditions for civil unrest through disrespect of the will of the people. For what? Or maybe the more urgent question, is for whom?
Personality cults dont make kings. Discipline, service, practice, reflexivity, and the capacity to adjust statecraft to the will of the people without embedding one’s personalised agenda, is what makes for good leaders, even within the Hindurashtra model. That a version of Hindurashtra can be interpreted as a functioning hierarchy for labour extraction, is a colonial intervention, and one that has not worked out to the best interests of this nation. Everytime Hindurashtra has been in control, post-Independence, India has suffered. Maybe the India in patronised godi media newsrooms, inside faraday cages protected by networked caste capital, has thrived, but India has suffered. The people have suffered. The heat got worse, the waters got dirtier, the air became unbreathable, the oppression become unmanageable, and the coercive dependency regime enforced through the state apparatus, has made it impossible for India to move in the direction it needs to, in order to upgrade to its best potential within the changing global geo-political order.
A hundred years from now, when we wonder why things went very wrong, this government will be remembered with the same if not more disdain, as we remember Aurangzeb for selling our asses to the British East India Company. You can suppress knowledge, but you cannot erase it. No matter what the RSS-BJP networks do, through their enforcement of this coercive dependency regime, humans are not scientifically engineered to exist inside cages. If you build one, they will die trying to break it. It did not work with the slaves. It wont work with us. Hindurashtra needs to recognise its shortcomings, and listen to the will of the people. The people demand accountability. Not meeting this demand will kill the nation, and leave its people vulnerable to neo-colonialism in the emerging global techno-fascist order.
