Need to Become Humans…
Who is saying this?
Is it the Indian ruling party itself and that party’s followers who are saying this? Telling others to “become human”???
Doesn’t that statement sound just like wolves saying “don’t shed blood”?
Does the Indian ruling party and its followers have the right — or even the capacity — to become human, let alone tell others to become human?
What they have is not the right, but shamelessness.
The shamelessness to call chili “sugar,” the lie and hypocrisy of saying such a thing.
Those who, purely through religious bigotry, kill people and turn them against each other,
who kill people and turn them against each other even in the name of a cow,
who seize power only by sowing lies, riots, hatred, and enmity through rivers of blood,
who hold power only in that way,
who gained power only in that way,
who have wielded power only in that way —
pointing to such a Prime Minister,
pointing to such a Home Minister,
what right do this ruling party and its followers have to tell others to “become human”?
At this point they will say:
“It’s time to deport and perform last rites on those who, while living in India, criticize the Indian ruler.”
If so, here is the answer for those poised to deport and bury such critics:
From where other than India should Indians criticize the Indian government?
Which government other than the Indian government should Indians criticize?
Isn’t it the Indian government and its actions and decisions that affect Indians?
Isn’t India what matters to Indians — not the ruling party of India?
Isn’t it India that Indians must love and protect — not the ruling party?
India does not mean the party in power, does it?
Won’t Indians have to protect India from a ruling party that is unworthy of it?
Isn’t that exactly the situation prevailing in India right now?
Let me ask further…
During Congress’s rule, didn’t the current ruling party come to power precisely by criticizing Congress’s rulers?
When you criticized India’s rulers from within India back then, weren’t you doing the very same thing — criticizing the Indian ruler from India?
If what you did and said then was not wrong, was not sedition, was in fact patriotism —
then how does it become wrong, how does it become sedition, how does it stop being patriotism, only now, when we criticize today’s hapless, incompetent government?
Even today, can this ruling party and its followers manage to sleep without blaming Nehru and Congress for everything, including their own failures, running away from the real problems facing the country?

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