Politics is holy for it is the profession relating to governing with a conscience that requires purity of purpose like no other. Hailed as a science, a study of the government of states and other political units, politics suffers from the same question which science is oft confronted with – How does one use politics for the constructive development of society. And like how science in its many diabolic forms genuinely defeats the very purpose it is so revered for, politics in its very many avatars is doing the same thing, but at a far perilous, grassroots level, shaking the very foundations on which tenets of humanity were carefully constructed.
But what distinguishes politics from science is who bloods it. Degenerative science, be it toxic weapons or nuclear waste, no, lets not debate the efficacy of MY examples of baneful science, is the brainchild of a few people perched atop the throne of a kingdom in which the lay man educated or otherwise is but a mute spectator. The kingdom of complex scientific math entwined with vested entrepreneurial (read government where necessary) interests produces a knot which the man on the street has no clue about till the day it raises its ugly self and trammels him to submission and devastation BUT…
Politics is a totally different ball game. Forget not, merely a game where a ball made of imaginary promises and surreal ideas, a round convoluted obloquy, thrown amidst us, the people of the land, who enlightened or not, gleefully play with it knowing for most parts what it would beget but discounting all its consequences to bring about our own fall. Unlike science where the common man can accuse his pseudo chaperons, the scientists and the governments for all the vices he is made to wear, he cannot do so in politics for the thorns twinging him come from the very tree the seeds of which he sowed, the roots of which he nurtured, the fruits of which he always knew he would never taste but gave into fostering a fiend in all his consciousness or should I say callousness…
The world’s largest democracy is today, but a mockery of the very basis it derived its pride from, the power of its people. We, the nation, must proactively push for the progress of this country through thorough deliberations about the political future of India and treat with utmost respect, our power to mandate our representatives. Let’s not be part of a wretched history which will have only one entity to blame for India’s peril, the apathy of the Indian public towards scientific polity…
Vote with a purpose!
