Sugata Bose: LAY NOT THE BLAME ON THE POLITICIAN BUT ON THYSELF FOR THE SOUP THAT THOU ART IN

Sunday, 5 July 2020

LAY NOT THE BLAME ON THE POLITICIAN BUT ON THYSELF FOR THE SOUP THAT THOU ART IN

LAY NOT THE BLAME ON THE POLITICIAN BUT ON THYSELF FOR THE SOUP THAT THOU ART IN

We have to develop far greater patriotism than we have thus far exhibited. Each one of us can and must be a miniature India with national interest first.

Nation-building is not buffoonery on television but is serious business involving real human sacrifice. We must, each one of us, lay down our lives for the national cause instead of mock-manifestation of patriotic zeal online or on that mighty medium which has of late been reduced to a marketing farce, television, and that too in its primetime nocturnal news hour when men of eminence shed all sense of propriety and honour to make a mockery of all civic values of decency and culture in the name of raucous exhibition of perverse patriotism.

If we are sincere, politicians, corrupt though they are, will be whipped into sincere action for dear survival. A strong polity full of the fire of national fervour will scarce allow the wicked politician to siphon off funds to the detriment of the nation.

It is the absence of character in the common man and its multifarious manifestation that is the real festering wound in the corporeal frame of the country -- the gangrene that needs immediate surgical removal -- rather than the corruption of the vast body of politicians who rule the country, for these latter ones, numerous as they are, are a minuscule fraction of the national population and spring from it as well, bearing all its degenerate traits which then taint their dispensation of law and social justice.

So, stop blaming the politician and start doing your wee bit for national reconstruction. Our cumulative contribution to national well-being will wipe out the blot and rebuild our national hopes and aspirations, refocus our country's energies and reshape our motherland's destiny. Unto us then lies the responsibility for such an execution of our national fate for unto us has been entrusted the key to unlocking our nation's future.