A sea of fools as Carlyle irreverently in a variant manner said about the population of England, devoid of understanding of their own good and disruptive at that too.
You say that the masses are democratically alive and aware as they exhibited during the 1977 Lok Sabha Elections when they voted Indira Gandhi out of power for her dictatorial ways as exemplified by the infamous Emergency. Yet, for all this apparent wisdom of the masses, the country is in political shambles with ethical principles exiting from public life and daily debilitating the already abysmal state of the populace.
You say that you harbour hope for the future and have faith in the next generation who will bring about a better state of things in national life. I, too, have hope but do not posit much of it in political gatherings with malefic intent. Where sounding the depth of one's control over the electorate dictates the calling of rallies, at once disruptive of civic life as also directed to misleading the masses on contentious issues that affect national life, I stand clear at one with Swami Vivekananda to call for renunciation and service as the basis of national life instead of holding congregations hostage to political agendas like this.
You say that you are apolitical, that you are devoted to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and that you accept my mission of spreading the message and life-giving principles of Swamiji and Netaji but differ in perspective on mass rallies that block civic life, holding the same as imperative to the democratic process. Well, then you ought to have by now understood the import of my statements, never in contradiction to Netaji or Swamiji but in affirmation of their highest principles of national reconstruction.
You say that you agree with me much in principle but not quite in practice on specifics. Very well, you are welcome to your judgement and I to mine.
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