The culture of work in India must change. We vaunt ourselves as the most spiritual nation in the world with a civilization dating back to more than 5000 years and yet in practical terms today we are nowhere in the comity of nations as a leader guiding the world towards higher spiritual living. A great deal of this has to deal with our slavery to alien powers for over seven centuries ever since the onset of Muslim rule in 1192 when free expression of our spiritual culture was largely restricted by widespread fanatical tyranny of the doctrinaire cult of Islam as espoused by barbarian Afghan-Mughal invaders with the notable exception of Akbar and Dara Shukoh. Later, European tyranny of the capital and Christianity and the most inhuman form of colonial exploitation conducted by the corrupt British imperial power systematically transported India's resources to London to build its vaunted empire across the world where the sun never ever set. India in the process was made to bleed, her coffers emptied and her culture offended by aggressive proselytization, the same offence committed for ages by the marauding Muslim invaders who despoiled the ancient culture of the Hindus by desecration of their temples, forced conversion to the Islamic faith, imposition of religious taxes like the Jizya and the creation of an environment of overall antipathy to Hindu religious culture. The Britishers followed suit only in a far more vicious way, the scientific looting of our national wealth which left India a famished country at the time they left us in 1947, a nation partitioned by their Machiavellian designs and its population reduced to a mass of marooned millions mutilating each other across the borders. So much for the weakness of Gandhi and his vaunted non-violence! He literally played himself into the hands of the British and the Muslim League led by Jinnah by his misreading of history and misinterpretation of Hindu philosophy, and by his impractical idealism and often political deceitfulness as evident in his foul play with Subhas Chandra Bose, later Netaji. Had Bose been allowed to function within the ambit of the Indian National Congress as he rightfully ought to have, having been democratically elected the President of the Congress in 1939 at Tripuri, had he then not been forced to resign from his post by the undemocratic, utterly unlawful designs of the Mahatma who forced the Congress Working Committee to resign, the fate of the Motherland would have changed, Partition could have been averted and a glorious chapter in Indian, nay, world history would have begun with the renascence of undivided free India. Gandhi realized his mistake when it was too late. Then none, not even Nehru, was listening to him as Jinnah, Nehru and Mountbatten made common cause to split India along communal lines thereby bringing to historical fruition the old British policy of 'divide and rule' on the grandest scale they could have ever conceived of. Non-violence had paid its debt among the bloodbath and the carnage that stretched from Lahore to Noakhali and the peoples of new India and Pakistan had been born among the terrible labour pains of the Ancient Mother India. Does Great Britain realize the magnitude of her sin? The original sin of Christian theology may be washed off by baptism in the waters of the Jordan but what will wash off this Himalayan sin of dividing Punyabhumi Bharatvarsha (India, the Holy Land) that like the fabled albatross is hanging on the neck of Great Britain? And Mr. Jinnah, where has your myopic vision of fractured politics led your own Muslim brethren beyond the horrors of the dictatorship of the Army and the conjoined mischief of religious clerics and, worst of all, the political slavery to the United States of America? Has it made the life of our millions of erstwhile Indians and their descendants across the border any better? Nay, we all know, it is an emphatic 'no'.
This then is the backdrop of the work-culture prevailing now in India where politicians and industrialists have joined hands to re-loot India whose wealth never seems to get exhausted, such is the grace of Mother Lakshmi and Mother Annapurna on her, but whose children remain enslaved now ever more to the capital and all its concomitant evils. A new approach to work is the urgent need of the hour if we are to save our people from the ravages of all that is the unlawful heir to industrial avarice. Remember, when unscrupulous politicians indulge in scams, it is the industrialist devoid of principles who whets his appetite for money for his own equally unscrupulous business ends. Now you decide who is more culpable. The problems have been set before you with their historical background. The solutions will be laid before as well soon with further analysis of past historical mistakes and future visions of the Rishis of yore whose climactic evolution is the spiritual duo Ramakrishna-Vivekananda in whom we shall seek solutions as well. Jai Hind!
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