It is with a really broken heart that I write this.
India faces imminent danger from the trinity of social disharmony, economic slowdown and a worldwide health epidemic. Social discontent and financial ruin are self-inflicted while the health contagion of COVID-19 illness, triggered by the unique coronavirus, is an external shock. I deeply worry that this powerful mix of dangers might not just rupture the soul of India but likewise reduce our international standing as a financial and democratic power in the world.
Delhi has actually gone through extreme violence over the previous few weeks. We have lost almost 50 of our fellow Indians for no reason. Numerous hundred individuals have actually suffered injuries. Communal tensions have been stoked and flames of religious intolerance fanned by unruly sections of our society, consisting of the political class. University schools, public places and private homes are bearing the force of communal outbursts of violence, similar to the dark durations in India’s history. Institutions of law and order have deserted their dharma to safeguard people. Organizations of justice and the fourth pillar of democracy, the media, have actually also failed us.
Charred soul of the nation
Without any checks, the fire of social tensions is rapidly spreading throughout the country and threatens to char the soul of our country. It can only be snuffed out by the same people that lit it.
It is both futile and puerile to indicate previous circumstances of such violence in India’s history to validate today violence in the nation. Every act of sectarian violence is a blemish on Mahatma Gandhi’s India. Just in a matter of few years, India has moved quickly from being an international showcase of a design of economic development through liberal democratic approaches to a strife ridden majoritarian state in financial despair.
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