The Indian political spectrum of all the parties hinge on 'contrastive politics' characterized by an approach based on identifying and stigmatizing the performance of opponents all the time and at all the places. Finding faults in opponent's policies and programs and advertizing them in such a way as they all were fools of the time and projecting themselves as only helmsman for the public. This is the basic mentality of all political parties in our country. The lies and propaganda used to complicate the people. The confused responses are replete with an unacknowledged despair at ever arriving at clear and certain conclusions. We cannot take it away from our memory the remarks of PM in China and South Korea somewhere in May 2015 that 'Indians ashamed of being born in the country before his government came to power and he assumed office' was a step towards projecting himself as self-obsessed person to glorify himself. This triggered one of Twitter's top trends, that caused People's uproar and 'Twitter' outrages were there with the comments such as; 'no right to insult India and that it was not Modi's call to say that people are ashamed of being born in India, on their behalf', 'India is more, much more than you can ever understand', 'I respect PM's chair, but I can't respect a self-obsessed person who glorifies himself at the cost of my nation! Sorry', 'Prime Minister should maintain the dignity of the post and should not try to play dirty politics everywhere', and many more. We cannot safely brush away these comments by merely linking them as of opponents but must realize that even last person, proud of his country, cannot think of speaking in such a tone. In no way such words confirm the patriotic touch. How is patriotism to be defined? Patriotism is an attachment to a homeland. This attachment can be viewed in terms of different features relating to one's own homeland, including, cultural, political or historical aspects. It is the essential part of countrymen, but when it goes to extreme, when this unanticipated vibe overcome everything else such as generosity, civil rights and fare mind, it becomes fanaticism, thereby people disregard the life of others. The Bertrand Russel, a British philosopher, logician, historian, writer, political activist and Nobel laureate, has described the fanaticism as; "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts". The most dangerous silhouette of fanaticism is patriotic, religious and political fanaticism. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting or forcing one's own political views among people. The successful political leader is one who deduces and adhere to the quotation "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies" handed down by 'Groucho Marx', an American writer, known as a master of quick wit. In general if success at all is to be exemplified, we catch on that it stand outlined as an acquirement of activities, within lay out time or period or within an indicative criterion.
The prevailing environment categorize the denizens all over India as; 1. The few who make things happen. This category is considered to rule the nation politically as well as administratively. 2. The many who watch things happen and doesn't believe in themselves or in their ability to make things happen. They often pass up opportunities and are master in coming up with excuses why certain things can't be done. 3. The overwhelming majority who has no idea what has happened, prefer to sit by the sidelines and just dream of the wealth without work, knowledge without character, and pleasure without conscious. This category is mostly responsible for undesired representation in parliament as well as in assemblies.
A Nation is said to be successful, if overwhelming majority of people fall in the category "who make things happen" and not with the populace just watching and idealess. We all fall in one of these groups or have vacillated between them and probably never wondered or asked ourselves why? It is reality that the affairs of a country are run in a well suited manner by politicians and bureaucrats and both are inter related components appeasing one another. "The politician is a type of creature known for its propensity to lie, exaggerate, embellish, and use all kinds of hysterical or bombastic attention - getting" - Rich Gaber. The job of a bureaucrat is to implement government policy, to take the laws and decisions made by elected officials and put them into practice. We find a definition of bureaucrat as "rule by desks or offices," a definition that highlights the often impersonal character of bureaucracies. The bureaucracy is an important component that plays a great role in getting success to a particular political person or the government by proper implementation of the policies and schemes of the political governments and the bureaucracy on the other side retain their positions on lucrative posts only by the kindness of the politicians that compel the bureaucracy to be the hunchback of politicians. The politicians harp on the public opinion as to be seated on power platter and it resort to weird trickery to appease the voters and applying the techniques of appeasement and to make someone believe something by repeatedly telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them, street plays, mobile video vans, CDs, pamphlets, and poster war by the political parties amount to brain washing of voters and in real sense it is political torture that can also be defined as psychological torture on the public devoid of non-physical methods. It does not hurt, truncate, or even touch the body. Rather, political torture refers to modus operandi that deeply infiltrate and shake-up the human mind and individuality and the use of marketing to create connections between political parties, individual voters and society at large, is an important area. We notice that political pronunciations, by way of advertisements, sloganeering, are basically a method of winning over the minds of people and are psychological torture of simple minds rendering helpless/incapable of taking independent decisions and is deprivation of vision, alter the attitudes and behaviors of the voters. It is the process by which political candidates promote themselves through masterly-crafted communications aimed at gaining public support. The modern political marketing vista provides variable opportunities to connect with budding voters and shape public opinion, including email campaigns, direct mail leaflets, radio spots, social media outreach, and television news and talk show appearances, understanding such connections are vitally important for effective and efficient use of marketing in politics. All these measures are psychological torture of voters.
Concluding I like to put into public colloquium the lines of Henry Louis Mencken one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century, as to deliberate its relevancy in the present time: "People constantly speak of the government doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect" Should such idioms carry any value weight in present or have become obsolete with a sea change in Politics/Politicians/Bureaucrat is a million dollar question? |
