Lets revisit some lines from the past and see how the popular mood, ethics, and thinking standards were in those times.
Jis khait say dehqan ko mayassar na ho roti,
us khait kay har khosha-e-gandum ko jala do..
[Iqbal, the great, referring to any land that does not produce any thing useful for the farmer/people calls to burn every grain of wheat of that land, because britishers used to force the farmers to work hard and produce crops and then at the right time they used to capture the land and take everything away...leaving only penury for the already exhausted farmers.]Deh khudaya yeh zameen teri nahin –
Teray aaba ki nahin, teri nahin, meri nahin.
[Iqbal referring to feudal lords and their tendency to capture everything for themselves, and in todays context where everyone is too willing to take ownership of anything he can lay his hands on.]
The current Indian leaders (politicians, sportsmen, film stars, MEDIA-PRESENTERS et al) are contributing their level best to the all-pervasive rot that has set in. If a person is 'simple and uneducated' he is helping in mines or fodder kind of ghotala, and if some one is 'charming and educated' he is getting into 3G and sweat-equity kind of ghotala, and some others are contributing their 'two cents' by promoting and popularising such trash events and personalities ignoring their very responsible goal. There are few others too who have either been virtuous or haven't got their 'golden chance' to get enlisted in this in-thing. Like any good phase this phase also wouldn't last forever and the silent majority will get up soon saying enough-is-enough. I am certainly not referring to Naxals.
The Gandhians will rise but they won't need Guns.
