My dear citizens of India

It is high time that we Indians stop shielding ourselves behind phrases like ‘caste based politics’ and pound off the blame on the political strategies of some of our other follow citizens (who just happen to be sitting in the parliament). Mark it, I am not defending them. They may have well played a role in dividing us, the Indians, by playing the caste-card. But shouldn’t we blame ourselves just as much to be pitted against each other just for a third party to benefit? Enough is enough. Does pinning the holocaust on politics really make sense? More than an act of politics I would call it an enthusiastically pursued contact sport of otherwise ordinary citizens, drawn from all walks of life, who were united in the unflagging enjoyment with which they inflicted every possible form of suffering on their powerless victims.

You can deny but the fact remains that the prejudice is within us. That is the only possible explanation on how these politicians have aced controlling our whole life and lifestyle, by simply tampering with this one small black spot within each of us (but we deny admitting it). There is no point making a mystery of how some citizens get talked into it (social disparity) when there are so many of us who cannot get talked out of it. And ironically, we are the ones more educated and qualified but yet so adamant.

Today I want to blame the whole population of India, including myself, and not just for the prejudice but for our participation, actual or potential, in mass murder. It is only fair, and more just, to stop fooling ourselves from holding the politicians responsible for the slaughter, the vandalism and all the unrest within the country. I’ll simply like to call the perpetrators ‘the Indians’. What we have always failed to recognise ourselves is as INDIANS. It is only after we cross country borders that we claim ourselves to be Indians, but till then we’re just Guajarati’s, Marathi’s, Punjabis, Dalit’s, and so on. Nationalism is what we lack, and on top of that, we lack basic decency of HUMANITY.

If we blame the government policies that put us in a position which allowed our contempt to express itself as a mass murder, shouldn’t we clear the air and pay heed to the sheer detail that is evident enough that there simply is a ready-to-fight attitude, and disdain for each other within us. It is, after all, the Indians who are killing and also only Indians who are getting killed in the names of these caste based violence.

The real revolution is the evolution of consciousness.