For the last year or more Ive posted links, given data, opinion pieces and a lot more on one of our PM candidates. Ive engaged with you, debated and persisted. Tonight Im going to stop because it wont matter once youve cast your vote. I am deeply shocked and horrified by those who choose development over human rights. Mostly because were all educated people who can read the data, watch the video clippings and make up our own minds. Yet some of us have chosen to be brainwashed by the Modi PR machine. Which leads me to wonder if its not brainwashed but a deliberate choice to turn a blind eye towards Modi and his Hindutva agenda. If in fact its not just a blind eye, but at some level a belief that it is justified. That those people need to be put in their place. If it is, perhaps I have made poor choices in my friendships. Please dont allow yourselves to be turned into cold, compassionless people. Please dont believe that development is a higher goal than secularity and humanity. Theyre not mutually exclusive. Please dont be a part of the horrible history that our children are going to look back at in disgust, like Hitlers Germany. Please dont believe that 1984 cancels out 2002 - every life is precious. An eye for an eye makes us all blind. Please remember that we have a Sikh PM at the moment and the community has never been persecuted again. Please remember that every riot is something to be ashamed of. Dont justify it as a reaction. Please remember that the BJP has shown its corruption too (Adani, land allotment, petrol pump, Kargil coffins...) and really cant be the first one to cast a stone. Please remember that youre voting in corruption again, this time with the added topping of fascism. Please remember that you might be a smug majority today, but someday and in some way you wont. Once theyre done with the Muslims, they will, like the Shiv Sena, come for the South Indians, the women, the gays.. the list is endless. When theyre done with everyone, theyll come for you, as the old saying goes. We have a history of bloodshed and to reward the man who masterminded one of the worst, is something our country should be ashamed of. When we talk of inventing zero and yoga, please remember were wiping out all our past glories with one fell sweep. Well be the country that voted a murderer in to the PMs seat, not inspite of his failings, but because of them. If anything, this election has shown us up for the people we are. Shown up our prejudices and our deliberate, wilful denial of what is. Yes, it is important to have friends from every walk of life, with differing points of view so that we can have a dialogue, learn. But there are some non-negotiables and this, is one of them. Its a shameful display of power and just the sort of thing cowardly bullies indulge in. Elections are fought every five years and everyone has an opinion. This is the first time there has been such vitriol and polarisation and its for a very good reason. Rarely do you get to see the face of evil so clearly and rarely do you see people you like and respect, go over to the dark side. Am I going to cease to be friends with those whove shown their inclination for this sort of thing? I suppose not. But things will never be the same. Well see each other in a different light and its not going to be pretty. If youve ever felt defenceless, ever felt marginalised, ever felt like a minority, ever felt vulnerable, have family who live in a country where they might be minorities, think twice before you vote for Modi. If youve ever thought of yourself as fair, compassionate, open-minded, just, think twice before you vote for Modi. On a different note, I wonder if theres any hope of them giving us someone else as their PM candidate. That would be too much to hope for, wouldnt it?
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:36:35 +0000
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