Intelligent Indian is a truth, intellectual Indian is a misnomer (part-2)

'YES WE CAN' MOCK BUT DO NOTHING

Narendra Modi is a polarizing figure. People either love him or love to hate him. He is quite evidently the darling of BJP cadres and supporters and sticks out like a sore thumb in the eyes of congress supporters and AAP volunteers. He is that irritating grain of sand in the eyes of SP, JD(U) and owaisi’s which they try and rub out only to find their eyes burning more, much to their frustration. He is clearly the hottest topic of discussion in present scenario.

So it is evident that when Modi speaks, the social media has to go into frenzy. Everything he says is heard with a stethoscope so as not to miss out on a beat or a murmur. Every gesture he makes is studied microscopically. Every line he mouths is dissected minutely in order to find something to outrage about. A cyber war breaks out with both his fans and his detractors firing cannons one after the other, in order to bring down the opposition’s fort.

Alas! If only these intellectuals would pay more attention to the ideas rather than the persona of the speaker. 

Now  I am no Modi supporter( although I expect myself to be labelled so henceforth) and ii oppose him on various ideological grounds. But when it comes to listening to his speeches (or even those of Rahul Gandhi), I prefer keeping an open mind. Sadly, I seem to be a part of negligible minority as the self proclaimed patriots and armchair pundits indulge in mind numbing socio-political discussions. The stuff they utter makes me say conclusively that ‘intelligent Indian is a truth but an intellectual Indian is a misnomer’.

Take for example his speech today in Hyderabad (11^th august 2013). After a marathon speech of about an hour, you will find the twitter abuzz with tweets like this :-

Now make no mistake, these tweets are not just a random rarity. These are just an example of the vast number of tweets flooding the trends, all on a similar note. Either people are trying to glorify his speech or trying to run it down. Is that what you expect from an intellectual society?

Take for example today’s speech and his ending lines of ‘yes we can’. Now his detractors are going overboard calling him a copycat. Why? Because evidently this phrase was used, by the president of USA Mr. Barrack Obama, during his presidential campaign. Modi is being mocked for using the signature phrase of some other leader by the same people who croon in delight the plagiarised musical numbers by pritam or watch (ogle) at screen as Mahesh Bhatt and co. serve them blatant rip-offs of Hollywood movies.

Then again, aren’t we all using someone or the others signature phrases in our life, sometimes overusing it uselessly. I don’t suppose the quotes like ‘honesty is the best policy’ or ‘ignorance is bliss’ materialised out of thin air. They were all grains of wisdom dropped by someone and we use them as ours. Did people accuse Anna Hazare ji of copying the ‘jai hind’ from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose? I don’t think so. But no, how dare Modi use Obama’s line.

And no, we will pay zilch attention to what else he said. The so called educated members of social media with their iPhones and blackberry’s have to speak on predictable lines. the modifans have to sing praises of Gujarat and Modi’s model of development, congress has to remind us of 2002 Gujarat riots (1984 doesn’t exist, nor do other countless riots post 1947) and AAPians have to rant about janlokpal, RTI and Radadiya.

Why? Because nobody pays any attention to the other ideas which Modi shared. Now for example, in today’s speech he spoke about the shortage of medical colleges and the dearth of trained, well qualified doctors in India. But I dare you to show me one tweet, one debate, one news program discussing that issue. It just shows how responsible we are as citizens of India and how much do we care about its progress beyond the usual jingoism and chest thumping patriotism. Leave alone act, we cannot even discuss real issues without being condescending towards the counter view. And till we develop that level of neutrality, that level of intellect, no matter how many Kejriwal’s come and go, no matter how many years Modi stays PM and no matter how educated is our youth force, we will never progress the way we must. We will remain a nation of bright minds with a dark future. 

That is an intelligent truth and 'The Truth' always hurts!!

Intelligent Indian is a truth, intellectual Indian is a misnomer.

Intelligent Indian is a truth, intellectual Indian is a misnomer.

Part-1

Ever been to twitter? Yes, it is the same place where celebs go to post their lunch and dinner schedules. It is also the same place where they try and show how intellectual they are. Where they post their opinions on anything and everything under the sun. Seems like a cool place to be, isn’t it??

Sadly it is also the place where sunny Leone trends more than a national issue. It is where Sherlyn Chopra’s nude pics beat Dara Singh’s death as the top trending topic. It is where people actually listen to KRK. And it is where you see how shallow an educated Indian mindset is.

Twitter is swarmed by celebs ranging from actors, politicians and news anchors to sports person, social activist and what not. Most of the time they come across as really humble, well-educated and thinking human beings but every now and then they drop a deuce which reveals their stink.

Take for example a hot shot news anchor named Sagarika Ghose. She was heckled by a few right wing fanatics so she went ahead and blasted all Hindus on the twitter. She takes pride in mocking Hinduism just because a few bigots challenged her. She believes that every person who is speaking of Hinduism on twitter is a fanatic. If that was not enough, she once tweeted about how all Indian men are ugly. Can you get anymore moronic?

Then there is Sherlyn Chopra who posts nude pics of hers and she has hordes of followers. We have @ipoonampandey masquerading as a cricket fan, ready to drop clothes at the drop of a hat. And yes, she too has followers. Well, I have nothing against their fans and followers but it gets downright silly when they step in to defend their antics against those who request them to respect Indian culture.

Ah, the long dead Indian culture. When a girl is groped and molested in Guwahati by few scoundrels who were heavily drunk, the twitter goes kaboom with outrage and people start tweeting showing their disgust but the moment kiran bedi  tweets about the role of booze in this, the same educated Indian jumps in to defend his drinking rights. Why don’t they go and read about alcohol and its harmful effects??

Twitter, is like a sample of Indian mass mentality and it shows no matter how educated we become, we will always be uneducated and uncivilised.

Twitter is full of such glaring examples. We have Muslim haters whose every tweet has to highlight how bad Muslims are, we have muslim fanatics crying for jihad and massacare of hindus, we have chief ministers who are busy tweeting while their job is to care for their state. We have Hindu fanatics, who believe Guwahati girl invited it because she went to the pub.

Twitter, is like a mirror in which one gets to see how stupid Indians are becoming. It is a reflection of urban India. The India where educated intellectuals thrive. Guess it is an illusion because the intellectual Indian is indeed a misnomer.

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