There is a certain expectation in the society when we talk about certain professions.
A doctor, or an engineer or a lawyer commands the highest respect in the Indian society, mostly in that order. The Indian community puts the well educated in a very high pedestal, probably because much of the country's junta still struggles to put their children through primary education. With such high respect needless to say there goes an expected behavior. We expect these people to be professional, ethical, honest. Well we just expect them to be decent human beings. That is why if you ever hear a scam involving these people, we all go like " Gosh, he was a doctor, can you believe this?"
If you looked at the riot or the mayhem in Chennai Law college, you would change your definition of professional education. It was downright shocking to see students, probably 20 year old indulging in such maniacal acts. 10-20 people beating a single guy to pulp is not something you assosiate with a college, let alone Law college. The irony screams out aloud hoping for some attention.
The reason behind the whole scene would shock you even more. Why all the inhumane acts. "Oh, one section forgot to include Ambedkar's name in a poster". Did anyone go "holy cow, how can anyone do that?". I certainly did not. In a poster! Seriously! And hence the students go around like mad guys beating helpless guys. I find it difficult to breathe for a second when I hear this. So the basis of all this dastardly acts is caste. I am sorry if i dont understand, but did you guys who got involved in this act not attend school when they taught you about secularism. Lawyers like doctors and engineers are probably the highest educated strata of the India society. Is this how an educated class behaves. If so, what purpose is that education to these fellas. A rag picker who respects others is better don't you think so.
Everyone in India who saw that video knows that this was just not a student agitation. It obviously had some political backing to it. What else would explain the police standing there like dolls adorning the living room of a house refusing to take any action. They had people going up to them begging them to take some action, but our very own guardians of law and order stood there, happy to be the onlookers, obviously on order to not do anything. It was a mockery, a travesty of our law and order system.
What next? There will be murder on the streets and maybe the police will join too!
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Welcome to the largest democracy in the world!!!!!
We Indians have successfully changed the definition of democracy. The definition is that anyone who takes the stick is a fighter and the rest either obey him or mutely follow him.
Sorry for being a pessimist, but I believe that after few years of watching democracy being mutilated up close and personal by our people, I buried my optimist. The average politician of India has minimum 2 cases registered against him and common ones are rape or inappropriate wealth ones.
So cant blame if law college students look up to them as 'role models'. After all they are just 'practicing' what our leaders do in assembly halls and parliament (remember Gujarat assembly where they threw speakers and chairs or TN assembly where Jayalalitha was Draupadised?)
It may sound radical, but we have f*****d democracy every way possible. We no longer need any Gandhi. What we need is a Hitler!!! Hang few hundreds. Might even sacrifice few tens of innocents. But trust me, lakhs of them will be back to order!!!!!!
What say?????
@Harish
i understand and sometimes even share the anger. That is what one feels when he/she faces such incidents. None of can forget the fate of those girls in the bus that got burnt or this incident where people are being beaten to pulp and the police are onlookers, ONLOOKERS! I simply cannot fathom it. What have we come to! Is politics just all this. Is there ever going to be a change. Are we ever gonna weed out these asses and make sure only the educated get nominated to lok sabha.
I think thats what we need. We need to rewrite the constitution. Sounds radical but we need it.Rewrite it.
1. Make sure any person contesting in election has to be college educated. No buts
2. Strip Kashmir of its special status. Its ours! Period.
3. Open up road construction and even railways to private with some government regulation.
4. Restrict the number of times a person can contest in elections. We dont need anyone more than 2 times. No we dont.
We need someone with balls. Someone with guts. We seriously need change!
@Harish
Sometimes I share the same views as you do . That we should probably replace the Indian democratic system with an Authoritarian system . Maybe democracy really does not carry meaning in nation of approximately 1.1 billion people with about 60% literacy and voter turnouts of about 48%. But , what keeps proving me I am wrong is the fact that if the ruling class of the country can exploit the ruled in the absolute glare of the media and in a system where they could be thrown out in the next election , imagine what would happen if they were able to control the media and the people had no voice.
The few cases of authoritarian regimes that have been successful have been associated with machines that have uncanny ability to attain cohesiveness,a kind of single-mindedness towards the collective goal. They are very disciplined and have a strong work ethic. Hitler was successful because he had the Nazi party machine working for him. Its discipline is public knowledge. Everyone talks of the human rights violations that China indulges in. But little is said about the mammoth political machine that the Chinese Communist Party is. Similarly you can quote many cases in South Korea under Park Chung Hee , Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew and what not . But the authoritarian failure in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America are the worrisome ones.
At the time of independence , the best choice that India had was a democracy. It was the only system that promised to integrate a bunch of princely nations under a single umbrella and it has delivered on its promise. It would be unfair to the Indian polity to say democracy is fucked up. I mean look around your country , you would find fairly worse example of how much more fucked up democracies can be.
The problem with a lot of us is that because of the pace at which the world is changing and the impatience that comes with it we expect the country to transform itself into a United States of India. But the USA did undergone the same perils before it became what it is today.
So don't lose out on your optimism. We after all need to back our country at precisely this time where it is beginning to grow into a wonderful nation.
But, I would be unfair to you if I were to say we have to live with whatever happened at the Ambedkar Law college in Chennai. I am totally for the radical changes that Nivi proposes in her comment. But it will take sometime and we need to be patient !
Yes. well said. I happened to see that video in you tube (only means :( for ppl like me) and I was shattered. I didnt hv the strength to see that for the 2nd time.
Its real shame that these guys will be lawyers soon and they r expected to uphold the law. We must be kidding. As per me they are not even humans.
@Cm-Chap
You are right! My insides turned when i saw that video.
It was inhumane.Its a pity a huge pity.
Good post, stirs the sleeping minds, ignorant of the atrocious behavior. Hard to digest these (Though movies like mudalvan portrayed it)when it happens for real.
Agree with aravind, on democratic views well said.
@Potter
Yes, a real meets reel scenario is it not?
Well we need to pull ourselves together and organize law and order
@nivi
Good post!
i like your mandatory education requirement for politicians.. and agree that we need privatisation. And I'd like to believe that Kashmir could be resolved so easily..
@harish
couldn't agree more with your point about politicians being abject role models.
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