Amidst massive upheavals in the immediate neighbourhood and stirring domestic incongruencies, India is all set to celebrate the 75th year of Independence. Even as the tremors of the external uncertainties and domestic political rumblings has put the nation to a crucial test, the usual murmurs about the fate of India have begun to surface.
Over the past seven decades, India bore the brunt of
numerous travesties and weathered them with elan and poise. Despite the
assumptions of portending disasters of an eventual fall owing to a calamitous
partition, the deep scars and trauma in the aftermath of the independence,
India proved the World wrong and steadily rose to its feet.
Instructively, notwithstanding the perennial
anti-India propaganda and orchestrations of a discourse inimical to national
harmony which have become more shriller with every passing day, the Idea of
India seems to be growing in strength. India has been under a state of assault
from 6th century and the new mechanisations to undermine this Oldest
Civilisation which is fighting back to assert its identity is witnessing a new
trend.
A trend which led to crystallization of Indian society
into an entitled class and the aspirational class. Since independence the
entitled class, comprising a motley group of highly influential, well-connected
with higher offices of power laid the path and framework for the country. Managing
the discourse and producing deracinated generations of Indians, they sapped out
the vitality of the nation. Taking over reigns from the White colonists the brown
skinned, anglicized Indians derided the idea of India.
The harbinger of the hope in the form of rise of an
aspirational class, desperately seeking to connect to the civilizational ethos,
reassert their identities is inspiring confidence. Dispelling the dark shadows
of disdain and frustrating the insidious attempts to widen the societal
fissures the new aspirational class is marching ahead and leading the way for
progress.
Revving up attempts to explore the history gaslighted
by the elite class, demonstrating a new pragmatism of reviving our culture,
tradition and culture, the aspirational class is reigniting the passion to
connect to roots. This renewed outlook and approach of the new tribe who
identify themselves as Dharmics are reinforcing and bolstering the idea
of India. Disapproving the pessimistic portrayal of India, the sense of pride
infused by this new tribe is turning out be the oxygen catalyzing the wheels of
civilizational, societal and economic growth of the country.
Throwing spanner into works of vested interests trying
to defend every act of bigotry, hypocrisy, betrayal and defection under the
banner of secularism, the new tribe is debilitating the break-India forces. This
characteristic aplomb in challenging the warped and blinkered narrative by the
aspirational class slowly and steadily is inculcating a new pragmatism about
our identity, squelching the servility.
In the run up to the Independence Day when the
national contours are etched by the despicable hooliganism and a rare political
unanimity to exacerbate the societal differences, the news of the Indian
unicorns becoming a guiding light for our economy is suffusing new momentum.
Instead of ducking or lying low, refused to be pushed into a corner, India is
assiduously coming up with new ideas to circumvent emergencies and threats.
Emergence of sudden urge to rediscover our
civilizational values spurring a new renaissance has started to take shape now.
Sri Aurobindo said, “Nations, like
individual men, cannot evolve to their fullest potential as long as the swadharma
is not able to express itself freely in the collective life”. Clearly, it
is time to look inwards to rediscover our own strengths and secure our national
interests.
As a nation,
India has made lot of progress. India is currently the fifth largest economy in
terms of GDP. Though India’s plans of becoming a $5 trillion economy are
torpedoed by the pandemic, after an initial slump, economy is showing signs of
recovery recording high FDI flows. Caught unawares initially, India quickly checkmated
Chinese incursions during Covid. Enduring the long-drawn peace negotiations
with the Dragon, India is working towards reducing tensions at LAC. While the
real test for India now seems to be the tumultuous Afghanistan, India in the
recent past has resolutely upheld its national interests in foreign policy.
Truly, even as intellectuals and the entitled class is
whining about the idea of India, India @75 is more optimistic of its rise than
ever.
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