The word ‘routine’ is not a very adored term. It has often been substituted
for anything that is ordinary or mundane. Routines are regular procedures and
practices that are almost performed as second nature. If you look up the net
there are even sites with help to get out of routines and make life more
exciting. Take a look here or
here for samples. If you’re
bored with routines I hope they help. There’s even a ‘Brainy quotes’ page which is a collection of famous people
ridiculing routines.
Reality is a bit different though. In
reality routines form the backbone of our lives. Traffic rules are routine but
imagine one fine day we said, dump those rules. You can imagine the chaos. Which shoe do you wear first? The left
or the right? Check next time, you’ve probably been doing it all your life
(wearing the left or right first) without the slightest thought to it. Most of
us marvel at Army marches. We are amazed how their legs and arms move in such
synchronised manner. To them, that’s
routine. For us, it’s a wonder. They have been trained for it and they
practice it every day. It is in that sense that Secularism is a routine. Being a backbone of our lives, secularism
needs to be maintained and practiced. Soldiers don’t fight big battles with
their marching skills. Do they? At best that routine organises them for the battle.
In much similar fashion secularism by itself does not win any battles. But many
of our fraudulent politicians have been selling this product (in a fake form).
Take a look at some of the chief perpetrators of pseudo-secularism:
Remember, these are only some samples.
The top row consists of the prime permanent criers of “Secularism is in danger” a la “Islam
khatre me hai”. The bottom row consists of the Macaulay Family members who
are the prime movers of this fakery in the media. A long time ago I wrote the
post “Excessive secularism is as dangerous as religious fundamentalism”. In that I quoted the renowned
Mark Tully: “Excessive secularism, which feeds the fire
of people who like to present India as a country that does not respect its
majority, is just as dangerous as religious fundamentalism”. This is the
outcome of fake secularism practiced by all the parties that are now up in arms
against Narendra Modi. One Congress
member has gone as far as threatening to kill Modi and there has already been
an attempt once in Patna.
Sharad Pawar who had met Modi recently
in Ahmedabad was probably rebuffed and now he calls Modi “deranged”. This Pawar is the same guy who said “wipe ink, vote twice”. Mulayam Yadav says “We will not let BJP succeed in making Modi PM”.
The churlish Nitish Kumar in an interview asked Arnab Goswami “how is Modi going to handle relations with Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka”? You know, as if the current govt is on a bed
of roses with these countries and this is a prime concern for voters. But the
Pak and BD reference is more to suck up to his Muslim voters and not out of any
serious concern. Pawar in a rally added “country cannot be handed over to Modi”. What is
that supposed to mean? Is the country some farmland to be scammed and given to
Modi? The people and their votes will decide who will get what. But let’s look
at the latest moron who wants to challenge Modi. Here’s a Johny-cum-lately
called Rashid Alvi who wrote to his
Bossini Sonia Gandhi:
If the pic is not legible you can read
it here. Now, go through the
letter very carefully. All that Alvi claims is that he wants to protect pluralism and secularism and STOP MODI.
There is nothing on one single issue of Varanasi that he wants to represent.
That’s the poison that these guys want people to drink: Fake Secularism. They call Modi all kinds of names which are then
repeated like a box of parrots by Rajdeep, Sagarika, Arnab, Barkha and all the
channels 24X7. The names they call don’t even have any relevance to anything
Modi may have said or done which would have made some sense at least. The only
objective of these so-called secularists is to somehow stop Modi by hook or
crook. And the more they scream the more they endear Modi to the public. Is the
media far behind. Here’s the Category5Moron
who is permanently on a Muslim trip whenever there is an election involving
Modi:
From the December 2012 elections of Gujarat
to now, all that Sagarika has been doing is whipping up Muslim hatred for Modi.
And these aren’t reflex responses by the Muslims she meets; she provokes them
with questions spiteful of Modi. Secularism
demands that people be seen as one nation under one roof. Politicians may
act divisively but why should media morons act divisively? And when rapped for
such illegitimate behaviour all that these fools can do is cry abuse. In the
context of such fake secularism what Modi says resonates with people. He says
whenever the Congress and its clones are asked any question they wear a “Burqa of secularism”. The Congress
scams are unbelievable in terms of money and the sheer nonchalance with which
the party protects its corrupt ones. A summary of its Himalayan corruption
looks like this:
Perhaps the fear of Modi is that he will
seriously set up SITs and fast-track courts to prosecute the corrupt filth. And
this must be done if this country has to send a clear message of intolerance of
corruption and the corrupt. Sonia Gandhi, who the media treats as if she is the
new Mother Teresa, behaves like she has no taint on her from all these scams.
Both Sonia and her “Balloon” son Rahul go around the country talking about corruption.
With what face does the media let these two pass without a single question on
their corruption and their giving tickets to corrupt members? Whenever the
question comes up, like the Congress the media also points to only ONE member
of BJP: BS Yedurappa. Whether
Yedurappa is corrupt or not courts are yet to decide and in some cases he has
been exonerated too. How the media finds equivalence has to be the biggest scam
in India.
Secularism is a routine practice and not
an issue on which any election should have ever been contested but the
Sickulars and the corrupt media have brought it down to this level. I consider
myself a secular person but except for the media discussions or election season
it doesn’t cross my mind even once. People brush their teeth and have a bath
every day. It makes them feel good, clean and freshened up. But that doesn’t guarantee
them luck, job or food. Routine hygiene is a “maintenance” job for the body. Secularism
is a maintenance job for a society. It need not get any premium. No one
deserves to be rewarded for being secular; certainly not with a vote.
As an Amdavadi I know of the history of
water problems in the city and state. Till 2005 or 2006 almost everyone in the
city faced a water problem (especially those living outside the municipal
limits). The bores would dry up and frequent drilling deeper would be done and
so on. There were days when there was no water at all and people borrowed a
couple of buckets from neighbouring societies which had some supply to get
through the day. As it got worse, the only option was regular purchase from
water-tankers. All that ended around 2005-06 when the Narmada waters flowed
through the Sabarmati. There has never been a problem since then and most
households have 24X7 water. Now nobody
talks about water anymore. Nobody
talks about good roads anymore; it has become part of routine life. No one ever
knew when the autos had turned CNG. No
one talks about it. No one talks of bus services. It has become routine.
When basic facilities become routine then residents think of higher planes. Not
having to struggle with these basic issues gives them the time to rise to other
accomplishments. What the hell does
all this have to do with secularism?
It is in the absence of the very basic
performance as a govt that many of the sickular political parties resort to the
chest-beating of “secular, secular, secular”. Secularism is a prostituted word as Arun Shourie said and many
people have been fooled with this nonsense for over four decades. In one of his
books Bill Gates narrates an anecdote about MS Word software. I am quoting from
memory and it is not the exact verbatim quote: “When we
gave WORD, people said we want colours. We gave them colours. Then they said
they wanted word-count. We gave them word-count. They said they wanted multiple
languages; we gave them Chinese, Japanese and so on. They said they wanted
spell-check. We gave them spell check. We can give people all the tools in Word
they want but we simply can’t tell them how or what to write”.
That’s right, one can be given all the
tools in MSWord but the software can’t tell you what or how to write something.
That is true for secularism too. Secularism
is a tolerant way of living but it’s not a cure to disease, it’s not a cure to
hunger. Secularism doesn’t eliminate
backwardness or poverty. It cannot give anyone employment. The Congress and
its clones have fooled the country long enough with their fake secularism as a
solution to people’s problems. This is the fool’s secularism. Change is
inevitable and no matter how much these parties and the media try to make the
debate secularism vs communalism it is increasingly dawning upon people that
this is a fake debate. Development and progress can be felt and seen. A country’s
progress and power is driven by people’s aspirations not by the fool’s
secularism. This election season people should listen to the real debates that
will seek to meet their aspirations. I am not a big fan of the Shiv Sena but
for once I have to agree with their hoarding.
