Traders of Divisiveness

Indians basically behave like a group of famished rats crammed in a small cage having lesser grains and more hungry mouths. It's a poor mass of squabbling souls. Chaoitic, noisy, errant and blatantly oblivious to the advantages of orderliness and peace. It's basically a fight, a mere existence, just survival. The air is full of insecurity, suspicion, anxiety, jealousy, negative complexes: as many dark shades of human behavior as can be expected in a situation defined by few morsels and many hungry souls. It's a twilight complex stretched between need and greed. Ever unmet 'need' is even riskier than 'greed'. With massive population and scare resources, need always lurks even more prominently than summer noontime sun. When need overrides the particles of air that one inhales day in and day out, it goes into one's guts, it suffocates the higher self buried deep inside. The pollutants of ever-persistent need dehumanize the self, narrow the vision, suffocate creativity and limit sentiments.

Thanks to the universal applicability of the concepts of marriage and having a male heir for after death salvation, India is full. Crammed to the gills. Overpopulated to the extent that the core of individual philosophy is solely defined by the fight to survive. It makes them, the people--both individually and collectively--self-seeking. They cannot see beyond the basics of life. Of making a few well defined ends meet, at whatever cost. In such a mad rush breaking the rules becomes the rule itself. That's why Indians are so comfortable in flouting all the norms that go into making a clean, humane society. They run, they fall, they side step, step on others, pinch each other down. It's basically a mad race.

With so many hands grabbing the same basics in the same little plate what can you expect. They just identify themselves with their lower selves, the ego, defined by fears, insecurities, complexes and jealousies. The stage is so small that they don't have the opportunity, or the will, and consequently the ability, to get connected to the higher self, the stage of consciousness about one's role, responsibility and duties as a contributing entity of the larger, collective environment. This attachment to the lower self makes them terribly self-centered. It's a mass apathy. As long as they get the survival crumbs to pamper their lower selves, they care a damn about any self responsibility. They allow themselves and others to violate any socio-legal norm. The offshoots of such behavior include spitting anywhere, defecating almost everywhere, flouting traffic rules, tendency to take short-cuts to reach their little journey to meet the same puny destinations, grease palms of government employees, take bribes whenever possible, molest women, commit petty crimes, shout at the top of their voices for pettiest of things and over littlest of issues, and last but not the least take any short-cut to reach the smallest of a goal.

You name anything and Indians will not disappoint you in flouting the norms. All because they inherently and instinctively connect with the lower self. Out of all these huge mass of self-seekers, the most potent ones become the politicians. They are the best self-seekers who have hardly any restrictions, moral or legal, to stop them from meeting their desires and destinations. No surprise, the small self-seekers deserve only bigger self-seekers to lead them. There is no need to comment about Indian politicians and their oft-used tools of dividing society on caste, communal, regional and class bases. Indian democracy functions on divisiveness. Individually Indians are very low in self-esteem, creativity, guts, courage and enthusiasm, so they identify themselves with collective identities in the form of caste, creed, religion and region. This tendency is smartly used by the traders of divisiveness, the politicians.