‘Death – Fear – Hatred’
By – Pamarty Venkataramana
Death is the ‘fear’ : fear of ‘death’ !
As one propels the other, the other compels it.
Nothing has brought this truism forward into the eyes of public as has the stormy pandemic of Covid-19 in 2020 A.D.
Even while all of India is yet to walk out of this unusual era just like the rest of the world battling for survival from an unseen ‘natural’ foe, it is our country which faces a most unspoken enemy of evil proportions,viz; the ‘inability to enforce good laws’.
Contrary to a general notion of India suffering from antiquated laws, the actual malady lies in both inability to disseminate knowledge of the laws as also rampant misuse, abuse and a failure to implement the law in true spirit and letters.
Laws are aimed at regulating and streamlining societal mores and lifestyles of asymmetrical population groupings.
Death is a fear ingrained into the psyche of modern civilisations. Quite ironical when science and technology have become twin-weapons to overcome superstition and fear of the unknown.Yet, a strange phenomenon.
Death inflicted by Nature’s vagaries like earthquakes, cyclonic storms, bushfires and tsunamis are sought to be coped with,through relief & rehabilitation measures.
Apart from advanced warning systems which help evacuate animal and human herds from potentially vulnerable areas of a storm.
Fear of death is an altogether ancient trait of mankind. Armours, protective gears, preventive vaccination injections are all indicative factors of a protection system aimed at defending oneself from ‘sudden’ or ‘untimely’ death.
Death tends to instil more fear as gloom and moroseness envelopes a particular community or family in the society. That is primarily the reason to have a criminal justice system.
A society ought to be knit by a common civil code just as its criminal justice system becomes commonly applicable to all sections of a plural society.
We in India have failed to bring about such a harmony between the ‘criminal’ and ‘civil’ laws of society resulting in a wholly collapsed criminal justice system with inequities and inequalities remaining pent up in large segments of population which feel discriminated, differentiated or differently treated even though the Constitution guarantees equal privileges to the majority even as it assures the minorities and historically ‘underprivileged’.
The ability to stand on one’s own toes is what is meant by ‘self-reliance’ or ‘athma nirbharata’. This is achievable only when there are straight-jacket rules which leave no scope for a ‘power or discretion’ to open up doorways for corrupt practices.
At all levels.
‘Hatred’ surfaces during such times of pandemic when law is enforced in a different manner to different sections of a society, in actuality. Few clusters and ‘religious denominations’ have been having a ‘free run’ owing largely to ‘political correctness’ of establishments donning varying ‘colours of ideology’.
Kill ‘hatred’.
End the ‘fears’.
Death to Fear. Death to Hatred.
Law and a strict, honest enforcement of ‘just’ and ‘equal’ laws alone can help drive out the monsters of ‘hatred’ and ‘fear’ from our Nation.
It is with this view in mind that the Laws comprised the fourth L in the ‘Four-L’ mantra announced by the Government of India.
The present emergency situation is a God-given opportunity to remedy the omissions & commissions of the last seven decades of ‘mis governance’ and ‘misinterpretation’ of Constitution by elected People’s Governments in our country.
‘Good Governance’ era will be ushered in only if ‘hatred’ and ‘inequality’ are buried by an equal application of ‘good’ laws.
No educated, literate and civilised person can tolerate the scream of any particular citizen that he or she is firstly led by ‘own’ religious book and that the Constitution is only second in order of allegiance.
It is largely on account of the misreading of one phrase-‘ secular’ that a wholesome society of Humanists called Hindus has come to be oppressed by its own ‘guests’ and ‘fellow citizens’.
The word -‘secular’ ought to be read and understood as re-emphasising the fact that ‘whenever a Public Policy is evolved and announced,matters of ‘Personal Religion’ would not cloud,colour or interfere in its application or content.
On the other hand, successive generations have come to be brain-washed by vested interests, gullible commentators of Law & a glib reading of our Constitution that the word means privileged treatment to a few groups of the country’s population – based on personal beliefs pertaining to matters concerning marriage, progeny, divorce,
Internecine quarrels aside, wanton disregard of general
Laws and a deliberate mass violation by the segment of people professing to follow one particular religion have come to be accepted as an absolute ‘birthright’.
The first measure required to be taken by a well meaning Parliament of India which enjoys an absolute majority is to enact an #UniformCivilCode seated in respective constituencies of the country, via videoconference facility.
Such a historic act of bringing in a necessary Act would go a long way to safeguard the Nation from assaults on its democratic firmament from within its borders.
Rest of the necessary transformation would follow suit.
Death – Fear – Hatred.
Justice- Social, Economic, Political can only be attained by elimination of both ‘fear’ and ‘hatred’ from the mind of each and every Indian citizen.
Freedom of expression does not mean uncaged or indisciplined behaviour just as it does not mean caged population nor does it provide totalitarian power to the powers that be!
We being a civilised society, the ‘Rule of Law’ alone shall prevail : those who seek to rule by the ‘rule of law’ must bring in Rules which are a true reflection of the magnanimity and kindness of Laws.
As a spiritual society, India acknowledges the balance sheet of Deeds and Karma as well as the need for DHARMA to prevail in every act of ‘good governance’.
Both ‘hatred as well as ‘fear’ are monsters to be buried and not exorcised by any political party or press outlet.
Vandey Mataram 🇮🇳
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Good observations