“Ignorance is the night
of the mind, a night without moon or star” ~ Confucius
Starting with this quote of Confucius, I wanted
to draw our attention on the ignorance we are carrying forward in our daily
life. It is not about being a pessimist or being a critique, but an
observation from real life situation.
Talking
about our society and country... a high level of ignorance could be found at
every aspect. It is not only political, economic but also societal and
personal.
One
of the most common attribute to the ‘educated’ class, when you talk about ‘politics’
or ‘public policy’ they make face of disgust. It a fashion and its contagious. They
would flaunt it and say, ‘I hate politics’. Majority of them, never go and
vote. However, they never miss a chance to cruse and abuse the criminal type political
leader who was elected due to ignorance of such people.
But
they love their ignorance! And you cant convince them to do... not to blame.
The Ignorance [Image Atribute: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com]
The
fundamental rights of a human being are being systematically ignored. Identity
politics is part of daily life at cost of poor. In primary education, secondary
education, higher education, in government programmes and even in business and
public sector jobs.
Demoractic
rights are curtailed too. You cant contest elections on more than half of seats
in local bodies, and almost one third of the seats of Parliament. You have only
voting rights that too, only once to elected! Our ignorance dint allow us to
rise above the level of being apologist to the rough sectarian politics.
Courts
are continuation of British era, with a sole purpose to justify the ruler’s
act. Our ignorance does not allow questioning a verdict or functioning of the
court. Thanks for Justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha of the
Allahabad High Court, only once, court did it duty and the ruling class got
furious. The resultant is known as the darkest hour of Indian
democracy.
Since
then courts are almost doing what government wants. KGB was best last example
and he is enjoying chairman of a national commission after retirement. Oh! Sorry,
If you dint understand the above para, I was only talking about the ignorance
of ‘educated-aware-able’ class.
Well,
ignorance is bliss for many... after all you need not to worry about things which
have nothing to do with you. But that ignorance also hides the fact that every
public policy is related with the life of an individual.
- Amit Srivastava , Lucknow
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