Does real Democracy prevails in India?

India is a democratic, secular, socialist, republic. This I remember studying in my third grade history class. When I think today how true it actually was/is, I am not sure.

A democracy does not mean merely having periodical elections where everybody has a right to vote. Democracy means people really participating in various public affairs and being the important part of the system but in today’s world, common people are the only ones who are left out of the system. They have no voice in the rule, cannot express their rights fully and let alone, them deciding on governmental policies. With microscopic lenses, I am trying to figure out where democracy applies in India but to vein.

When people are suppressed by the corrupt administrators, or should be called economic blackholes, who should the people turn up to? When everyone in the hierarchy is either corrupt or turned into one by the top command, and when good people who don’t fit in this structure are thrown out, what options do we have? We are left out with options but to take matter in our own hands.

when government fails, we begin. There is an imminent need for the thoughtful and honest youngsters to start a bloodless, or if needed bloody, revolution to stamp out the evil dictators out of power and lead a clean, envisioned and pro-poor government.

Yes, Revolution is the key.

My Greatest Hero: 2

Che Guevara

Though communism may have lost its fire, he remains the potent symbol of rebellion and the alluring zeal of revolution. Ernesto Guevara, famously known as Che Guevara, was a famous leader and a communist who wanted to eradicate poverty from this earth. His struggle against oppression and tyranny gave him the larger image as the savior of poor.

The story of the obscure Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth is an epic, at least to me. Che, along with his good friend and confidante Fidel Castro and other comrades entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas.

It is true, as Che said, that in a revolution one wins or dies. Many comrades fell along the way to victory but they are the steps to the path of victory, the glorious path of revolution to establish a society of equality and justice.

Che described the revolution as the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism wherever it may be. This is a source of strength, and more than heals the deepest of wounds.

Che, on his letter to his leader Castro said: “I am not sorry that I leave nothing material to my wife and children; I am happy it is that way. I ask nothing for them, as the state will provide them with enough to live on and receive an education”. Soldiers don’t believe in living for themselves or their family but for everyone. They live and die for people who they don’t know or will ever see. How can we describe these great men’s ferocious love for others? Che is a great soldier, an inspirational leader and a famous revolutionist who still lives in many people’s heart as their love for poor.

Che’s valiant words, when he was shot by the imperialists, still echo in all brave men’s heart: "Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man".

How many of us are ready to die for what we believe in?

My Greatest Hero: 1

Subhash Chandra Bose, one of most prolific and vibrant freedom fighter of India, man behind the famous Indian National Army (I.N.A). He gave to the nation the Salutation and slogan of “Jai Hind”. His slogan "Jai Hind" still acts as a great binding force of the nation. "Patriot of Patriots", this is what Mahatma Gandhi described of our Bose.


"You give me blood, and I give you Independence" – famous words of my greatest hero. These words hold same or more value now, in the present day India. Non-violence proved to be the better strategy against the British but it is not the same now. British, even though being our worst enemies, had a face but modern-day criminals - yes, our corrupt netas and babus - have no face. They hide behind some good words like government, law, democracy and oppress and tyrannize people.

Does anyone still believe that non-violence struggle can be used against them and this will actually help in restoring people’s rights? Not me!

Netaji, as Bose is fondly remembered forever, wanted unconditional and complete freedom. He dreamt of a classless society with no caste barriers, social inequalities and religious intolerance. He believed in equal distribution of wealth and destruction of communalism. Isn’t this the need of today?

In early 1940, Netaji Bose in his rare but very inspiring speech asks Indian students to emulate the example of youth in Russia, France and Italy to take part in freedom struggle and serve their country. Bose call was well responded immediately but remains history and unanswered now. Participation of students and youths in the politics to deliver India from clutches of corrupt politicians is very essential. If this does not happen, birth of naxals and strengthening of their ideologies to deliver India from corruption and misgovernance becomes inevitable.

Long live Bose's legacy!