The Rise of A Yogi!!

With Yogi Adithyanath we have another great leader coming up from the ground to contend for PM of our country after Modi’s era. They are proving there is no dearth of leadership based on Ideology. These are not coming from the Dynasty. But they are coming purely based on the ideology that has held India together since many millennia. And that ideology is of selflessly servicing the society. That ideology is that of helping the downtrodden and ready to become a King from an Ascetic to clean the system. That ideology is to stand up against corruption, lawlessness. It takes a lot of courage to stand up against the lawlessness & cleanse it. You have to take it head on and face the consequences.

Yogi is charged as having his own small army and running a parallel system. How can he bring back law enforcement according to the constitution?

He has built a group of selflessly serving youth organization called Hindu Yuva Vahini. He does support & works for VHP. He is calling for joining hands across all religions and caste to build an iconic temple for Sri Ram in its original place where it was destroyed by the marauders 5 centuries back.

He & his group do respect the Law of the Land. But the Police, the Law enforcement agencies do not have independence & strength in implementing the law & order. They are weakened by the goondas running the Jungle Raj in UP till now. The goondas run their own business of extortion, abduction, threat and terror. When normal hard working people are under threat, and police are reduced inefficient, there is not law & order.

The volunteers with good intention serve the tribals, labourers, and downtrodden people. They set up healthcare units. They help in getting government schemes, ration card to these people. They help in getting children education through government system. These enable and empower the downtrodden. They become empowered & raise questions and rights against the extortionists & goondas who contract these labourers to high profile industrialists, large farmer, estate owners. This creates clashes and police reduce to be spectators as they are under threat of suspension from the powerful people running the politics of the area. These clashes are reported by outsiders as goonda wars. But the stakeholders are the normal people who know who is in support of them. Democracy gives them an opportunity to voice their support silently and through secret ballot.

So through the good service works and taking head on violently when and where required on to the law breakers, Yogi has emerged the people choice over the years. Now with the peoples stupendous mandate and the state machinery at his hands, it is a double edged sword. He has to deliver. And he has a huge state machinery to turn around to service the people. It is chance. But it is a very big responsibility. Peoples expectations are stupendously high.

What guarantee he will reinstate law & order? Will he give freedom to Police to act by the books of Law?

This is a hypothetical question. Answer lies in the ideology through which he has come elected. It is based on Hindutva Ideology. Hinduism says: “Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavanthu”; “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”. Now as an election slogan they have adopted is the same “Sabka Saath; Sabka Vikas”.

But this is basically answered looking back on our history. In the Mughal’s period, the law keepers perpetrated atrocities targeting the Hindus. They all went to their Guru – Guru Arjan Singh the 7^th Guru of the Sikh order. He took up the lawful route to raise the question of atrocities committed by the armies on the normal citizens. But the law keeper Jahangir promptly followed Islamic ideology to behead him.

Next the same kind of atrocities continued. When the Kashimiri Pandits were given ultimatum to convert to Islam by Aurangzeb, they approached their Guru – Guru Tegh Bahadur. He took up their cause to take up legal fight with the Mughal Emperor. True to his religious diktat, he promptly jailed him and later beheaded him.

This meaningless legal route and getting beheaded was not really helping the normal faithful people of the country who looked up to their Guru for some peace. So Guru Gobind Singh the 10^th Sikh Guru started a Khalsa movement. He called for selfless sacrificing group of volunteers to form the army. And this army fought for the political dominance. Thus a saint became a political head of the people. A saint picked up sword for restoring peace. He gained independence of many areas seceding from the Mughal Empire. And in his areas, based on the ideology of equality to all, he maintained peace and prosperity to all including the Muslims. When he restored peace, the same officers, takedars, killedars, who were running the administration of the country in local areas continued. But, now with much more confidence in the law enforcement due to independence given to them to follow the written principles. When principles run the country, the whims and fancies of individuals do not confuse and change course of the country. It will follow predictable principles in letter and spirit.

Same is the case with the Raise of Shivaji. He rebelled against the lawlessness under the Bahmani Sultans. He appealed to the Mughal Aurangazeb to reconcile. But he promptly put him in jail. Shivaji made a miraculous escape and installed himself as the Chatrapati. Under his rule, there was benevolence. The normal people wished his era to continue for long. The peace returned. Law was implemented in letter and spirit with independence of interference by the powerful.

These people were principled. Their principles were strongly hinged on Rama and Krishna’s Ideology. Rama and Krishna themselves lived this ideology of fighting demons for protecting the rights of the common man. And in our India, this will keep repeating. The bad is always there in the society and rises often. The bad people are there in Hindus, Muslims or any other sect. When the bad rises slowly, the good becomes weak and silent. But soon, the good will emerge again and rise against the bad and re-establish. This is India. All our Heroes are keepers of Good. Good means selfless service to the humanity. And all our stories end with Jaya. Vijaya of Good over Evil.

This is not the case of just one leader/party overthrowing another. In the examples of Mamata Bannerjee overthrowing CPM rule; or in Kerala one time Left comes to power, another time UDF comes to power; similarly in Karnataka one time BJP or JD and one time Cong comes to power; But the common man is still getting exploited. In these examples, the ideology is not based on giving freedom & rights to the common man. But it was about just yanking power for self. 

For example in West Bengal, with the CPM overthrow by Mamata everyone expected a cleaner governance. But the common man who was shaved off his earnings by hafta, goondaism, extortion etc., still faces the same. He has not got independence to do business and keep his earnings as per law. Because the power struggle was not based on ideology of transferring power to the common man. But it was just yanking power for self. 

In Yogi's case, it is similar to the Ideological wars of Guru Gobind Singh, Shivaji, Rama & Krishna. The power struggle is not for self but to give the power to the common people to lead normal life and remove threats from the bad elements. The bad elements to be under threat by the state Police who will be given independence to implement law by the books independent of nepotism. 

Is Violence necessary to overthrow an authoritarian rule? How then Gandhiji could win through legal, non-violent, peaceful persistent battle? He never picked up a gun.

It is the British narrative. Their propaganda mechanism is emphatic almost flawless. People even today think British rule was benevolent and argue and write about it. Even today, British believe they uplifted the Indians. Many Indians think the same. Their propaganda is such strong that it may seem impossible for us to master and defeat them in that.

British atrocities are unparalleled. Shashi Tharoor in his recent books & hugely popular talks going viral in social media, writes they were as bad if not worse than the Germans in killing people except they don’t burn them and keep their records and then claim it. British are polished in killing through policies & not keeping a count of it.

The protests against their misrule was raising. They handled the protesters with iron hand. The likes of Tilak was jailed for long in distant Mandalay; Subhash Bose was jailed in Mandalay in Burma for long term; He was later house arrested; He finally escaped out of the country in disguise; Veer Savarkar was chained and put in distant Andaman in a dungeon.

But to the world British claimed their rule was democratic. They needed Congress to represent people. They listened to people through Congress. Gandhiji was a perfect leader for them. He was a mass leader. He connected well with people of all class and caste. People thronged to him because he could connect well with them. He talked people’s ground level problems like untouchability, illiteracy, water, employment in villages through khadi gramodyog etc., He created a mass movement, mass appeal; He was a true leader of the masses.

At the same time he was not hard on British. He launched Non-Cooperation movement in 1930. There was a minor clash in a village called Chauri Chaura in UP. British chided him, why he is turning violent? Does he have any control over the crowd? He immediately called off the nation wide non-cooperation movement. So in future, whenever Gandhiji was jailed for any reason by the courts, British authority released him on pretext of health or any other silly reason, in less than an year to come to mingle with the masses. Their propaganda was to respect Democracy and respect Gandhiji.

Then the whole world plunged into the WWII. Gandhiji opposed India to join. But nevertheless British pulled India into it. Nethaji Subhash used this opportunity, took the reins of INA and stormed towards British India with Japan’s assistance to free India from British. This rattled the Congress who was considering a safe option of taking over the India’s reins after British or continuing under them. So Gandhiji called for Quit India. Till now, Gandhiji being non-violent calling for non-cooperation, suddenly turned violent calling Quit India. He had written in Hind-Swaraj in 1900s and I agree with him that British need not quit. They are welcome to assimilate as any others from all the world who have assimilated in India as long as they live peacefully and democratically. But now in 1942, he suddenly took a U turn on non-violence. During Quit India movement, many violent outbursts happened across the country. Several Police stations, rail stations, post offices were burnt in outburst. It did not move Gandhiji. It reminded British of the 1857 horrors of the War of Independence. They are smart. They said we’ll give independence. But how? They raked up the issue of Muslims demand for a separate state. They told Gandhiji that Jinnah is adamant. They released Gandhiji from jail to go and negotiate with Jinnah. Gandhiji’s mission diverted. British mission accomplished. (Referenced from ‘India Wins Freedom’ by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad)

So it is a British narrative, that India got Independence through Non-Violence. It is questionable. That narrative is well carried forward by the Congress. It is a good narrative for primary education & it should stay there. But for adults & college education, it should evolve more deeply questioning.

Gandhiji stood for Non-Violence. But Non-Violence alone did not bring Independence. So he also ultimately authorized violence for Independence through a strong slogan – Do or Die.

Gandhiji definitely deserves to be the Father of our Nation purely for bringing about the mass movement and awareness about Independence movement amongst the masses & eradicating social evils. He is also an icon of Non-Violence. We need such icon for a peace loving nation like ours. But we should not forget so many other leaders who architected the Independence movement for us. 

This article is not an endorsement of violence. Violence is wrong. But when the ruler rules by violence perpetrated on the normal hard working people, only Non-Violence will not help to restore peace. Somebody needs to fight 'Do or Die'. The good people should openly support if possible or at least secretly support through secret ballot. 

Europeans formula to dominate the world

Europeans started exploring the sea routes all over the world around 15^th, 16^th century. Then they over threw all forms of civilization, tribes in America and Australia by their brutal force. Some remnants of the old civilization and tribes remain completely confined and controlled in those continents today. The original inhabitants of these continents are confined in areas “ranges”. They are completely relegated as just museum pieces. They have nothing of their own country, constitution, leaders, and ruling. They are at mercy of the occupied Europeans completely.

In Asia and Africa also Europeans took political power. They controlled for most part of 18^th and 19^th century. Their greed to control earthly resources all over the world created conflict and flared up into 2 major world wars in the 20^th century. It was centered in Europe but spread to include others due to their Imperialistic ruling all the world. After 2^nd world war by 1945, they realized their own people are suffering due to fight for perishable and limited resources. Also India exemplified, concerted synchronized “Indian National movement” by both armed resistance and non-violent mass movement. The Indian Independence in 1947 triggered a series of successful ‘National Independence Movement’ across the Asia and Africa. Today almost all countries across Asia and Africa are politically Independent. They have their own leaders governing. They have their own constitution, laws, property rights and controls over their resources.

In spite of this political independence, the Europeans dominance is still persistent and in fact increasing in all countries in all spheres of life. It is an important study for sociologists and economists to delve. Firstly all the universities, institutions, think tanks & intellectual lot are modernized. That means westernized or Europeanized. And these institutions will carry forward the legacy of European intellect. In this article we’ll just scrape the top surface of their deep rooted dominance.

Global and Local

One concept which Europeans have conveniently used to dominate the world is – Global Vs Local. By terming something as local they belittle it. Generally they market their ideas as anything European is Global. All others are local.

The local things are considered as not job generators and economically unviable. So it is relegated as last resort for poor performers in academics. For example: Study of language, study of art & architecture, study of water management, study of local economics, local administration & governance, local medicine, local food & agricultural practices etc., Everything is relegated as backward now.

Medicine & Medical Science

For example, the Tulsi leaves, Curry leaves are miraculous medicinal plants. But they are local perishable medicine. So no global market, no big industry, no money circulation etc., but if you extract chemical out of it, add preservative chemical, package it as tonic or tablet then it becomes globally marketable. Then it takes the global status. Money cycle will be there. Economics counter will be there. So Globalization means money cycle. Money cycle means measurable economics.

But anything locally grown and consumed doesn’t create an economic cycle. So these local things will stay relevant still due to the passion of the general people. But the Government, administration doesn’t fancy it. Now, only after Independence Ayurveda is studied as Science. There are institutes, degrees, universities in Ayurveda studying it as medicinal science. But still government support for chemical Pharma industry, Pharma institutes, degrees, medical degrees aligned with allopathic medicine is dominant. Because there are global players in that. It has global industries with global markets. The research funded by Government in this rather destructive science can be diverted to more harmonious science for people friendly areas. But they don’t; because, it is not global. It doesn’t attract money by Global standards.

Even in cold countries and continents like Europe, America there are medicinal plants and other means to handle medicinal needs. But there is not enough focus and research. They are also relegated as local, tribal etc., by vested interests.

Administration & Finance of Local Resources

In pre-british era we had Rama Rajya conceptualized by all Kings all over India which was more of “Grama Swarajya”. The administration was local. The financials were completely localized. There was no Central loan, state loan, World Bank loan for tank building, road building. They had to manage their own resources. Because they had rights over their land, forest, river etc., Kings were asking what people wanted and let them use it if it was in their territory. For example Chitradurga, Bellary, Kolara are rich in minerals. They were rich then also, and are rich now also. During that time, the locals made their own rules of how to extract gold, aluminum, iron etc.,. They had caste based professions for these work. The communities had access and rights to these resources accordingly. There was local demand and market for them to extract, manufacture and sell. The locals made their own guild, community, rules, regulations, etc., King approved their self-made rules. If the King was cruel and levied wrong rules and taxes, then people used to revolt and depose him with their own leader who gives equal rights to all communities.

Today, if a locality is rich in minerals, it belongs to some state or central government. They don’t give it to locals. They auction & contract it through complex tender and other underhand means to ‘Individuals’. The giver of land doesn’t have any local interest; the taker doesn’t have any local people’s interest. Both have money as the only common interest. So with an Iron hand they handle local unrest through police, paramilitary etc., they extract local resource and export globally. Then it will be considered Globally acceptable norms of the trade and manufacturing. The ‘Individuals’ involved become rich leaving the locals lurching for rights & basic needs.

Manufacturing by large destructive Industrial means is considered Global. Mining & Mineral extraction by large earth mover machines is considered as Global standard.

In the ancient India metallurgy was far superiorly developed. Large scale metal & alloy manufacturing & export are recorded in history studying Silk routes. This was made possible by people’s guild’s, communities etc., And also it was due to people’s ant like culture of working together contributing small ways for a big cause together. So they could construct large edifices, bridges, tanks, dams, forts & temples. Also they could export quality metals. It was harmonious and people friendly. Now it is completely ignored due to Globalization in which Individual interests over rule people’s interests.

Tribal, Local, Regional, Colloquial, Dialect, Cult etc.,

The above are some of the words to describe anything indigenous, locally developed culture, science, methods, processes or theories by the Modern educationists and Intellectuals.

By describing such they would put a stop for any further studies, interests or investments in those areas. By these descriptive words they would give a special emotional status, putting it on a pedestal and putting away from the common living.

So in every area the European stamped Global standards & processes over rule the local way of dealing things. We can observe this in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Economics, Sociology, Legislation, Judiciary, Philosophy etc., In every one of these areas there is rich heritage which can harmoniously meet People’s needs. We just have to find our roots and enhance it.

But unfortunately we are in this vicious Globalization cycle. This helps some individual entrepreneurs, business men to become exorbitantly rich. It will widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Those rich will influence Government & Politics. And ultimately they even influence institutions, research, by pumping money further into destructive science and engineering rather than harmonious science, philosophy etc.,. And they in turn stamp Global markets, Global economy, Global markets, Multi-National Companies only as the savior of any country.

So that’s how today we, which means, the entire world’s all sovereign countries are under the grip of European (neo-American) idea of Globalization. This will further the “Money” (economic) Interests of those few ‘Individuals’ & MNC s.

However it is detrimental for the people of the countries. It is high time now, the people across countries lead by India to drive another Independence Movement to find their roots in every area for harmonious people oriented theories and practices.