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Digital Writers of Digital India
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By the time I write this stuff, my mind is suffocated by the abject atmosphere as the sky in Indian sub continent is going polluted with the pieces of communal harmony scattered and desperate. As the so called communal quick fix finds it hard to get cohesiveness with the contemporary scenario found in India, the secular fabric of the country has been going to dogs with every passing day.
By the time I write this stuff, my mind is suffocated by the abject atmosphere as the sky in Indian sub continent is going polluted with the pieces of communal harmony scattered and desperate. As the so called communal quick fix finds it hard to get cohesiveness with the contemporary scenario found in India, the secular fabric of the country has been going to dogs with every passing day.
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The Prime Minister of the country, who has been viewed as the epitome of change making by the Indian media sects, perhaps spoke very less when it came to communal and secular aspects of the state. As we move on in the arena of communal debate, the intellectual brains of the country have been returning the highest literary award to the government and the score has reached almost a dozen now.
A sense of the cow- logistics is precipitating all over the country and this sense has generated a fume of hatred and polarization. In a recent spate, the Dadri incident which shook the conscious of whole country saw the new dawn of protests in Indian nation. At the very first it was Jawaharlal Nehru’s niece who returned the Sahitya Academy award with the anger that the government in Delhi has been doing nothing for the sake of minorities. And again it came to Ashok Vajpayee who returned the similar award with the resentment that the country has fallen from the highest aesthetics of secularism. Both Nehru’s niece and Ashok Vajpayee are considered to be the outspoken writers of the state who have kept the candle of literary world burning in times of war and violence. There is a thin line that separates the intellectual aspect of the country from the disguise of anarchy and that line is fine piece of freedom. A freedom that bestows a nation its integrity and a freedom that sets a disciplined standard of things are of the immense value when it comes to the country like India. There had been innumerable incidents in the country when writers were asked to shun the art of free writing and there were immense times in the country too when the writers were asked to come forward for the good public cause.
This combo is a serious disorder which has put the writers at the razor’s edge, the streets of Delhi or the Dardris of India are in need of a dawn and that dawn doesn’t lie in the jargon of political enterprise. There had been times too when the writers were asked to shape the society in a fine picture of peace and tranquility. A time in India came when writers were asked to touch the line of rape culture in India, child marriages, human trafficking, religious and communal polarization, ailing health care and dismal education system and the time has witnessed the role that was or is being played by the politically correct and morally mature writers of the country. Modern Indian society demands a set of writers who can tune the communal facet of the country and at the same time can keep many Mohan Baghwats and Singeet Soms happy so as not to get lynched by their fierce mobs.
The state witnessed a battle of ideas when a scholar like Kalburgi, CPI Leader Panasare and rationalist Dabholkar were murdered within a gap of month and from then a sense of senselessness is being sniffed in India that all those rationalists might not end up lifeless. Drawing conclusion from the murder of three writers all we can note is that there is no scope for rationalists and the superstitious institutions still throng in India. The resistance shown by the writers in the form of returning awards is not only a debatable issue but the crux of it reveals that there is no writer free culture in India to push their art to the highest seat of excellence.
In making of India a Digital India, there is an India which had made its name in the world fraternity and an India where just eating meat can attract lynching and not voting for a certain party can invite murder. The criminalization of system is though not tangible but for the insiders the reality of system is an optimistic character from which they escape, and remain mum, and may be this is the reason that the Prime Minister didn’t choose to spoke about national unity by pointing RSS or its allies as common threat to tranquility. When writers of a country do surrender their titles and show absolute resentment about the clumsy system it then clearly indicates that there is something fishy inside the power houses which don’t allow writers either to write or just either to stand for an opinion. I cannot say that, ‘all writers represent all people’ but when I mean to put this word I mean that there are some writers who carry an ideology or a set of ideas by which they flourish and I strongly believe that these writers get titles just because they represent a sect of political class or rowdy institutions.
When it comes to writing on religious and political morals there are many writers who dip in system, suppose when it came to beef ban in Jammu and Kashmir state all the less classy and highly politically motivated writers expressed their opinion on the issue. Miss Maneka Gandhi the Women and Child development minister of the Modi cabinet had a paradigm shift on beef ban issue, in her womanly and childish way she put her word in a certain daily ‘The sinking ship of desert’ that the camel ban in India should be ensured and Muslims should adhere from making its slaughter on Eid Ul Azha. In her so called political style, Miss Maneka is justified in saying that there should be ban on camel slaughter on the said festival but corroborating this issue on the religious lines of Islam, Maneka has touched that religious ozone which had been getting pierced because such conclusions either don’t work or when they work they are enough to flare up the communal tensions.
By making immature comparisons Miss Maneka not only disgusted her status but also stood firm about the ideology of Hindu and Hinduvta. It must be noted that Miss Maneka by pointing her viewpoint said that Today Muslims are slaughtering Camels tomorrow they will Kill Tiger just to satisfy the religious aspects of Eid ul Azha. How much the said writer is justified in making this non sense comparison, it is all open for the debate. So calling upon the time when writers surrender the titles and when writers go nasty to the level of immaturity it is indicative that who should write and who should politicize.
There is again a line that separates good art from bad one and to maintain the efficacy of that line, it is compulsory for the stakeholders to allow only that art which entails harmony and rational approach of things, gate keeping is a methodology. By giving writers a room to flourish upon, the state should keep it in mind that no art turns bad and hazardous. Much of Indian state has been defined as an epicenter of discrimination for minorities and the reading pulse has been taking all leaps since the NDA government came to power in centre. The writers in this discourse have the obligation to change the existing dynamics of bias and nepotism, when religious and communal elements take over the chemistry of taking sides.
A digital India should absorb the scientific understanding of things and the writers of digital India should entertain news above noise and sense above sensation. Giving room to fringe elements and inviting them in power corridors can stalk India at home and at all those places where the tour lover Narendra Modi visits. A time has come when writers will define the destiny of any nation and may be India is not an excuse. It is viable now to say Good Bye to communal scavengers. All are free to speak but when intellectuals speak it gets written in History and no one wants mystery when history is written on cruel chapters of a given context.
Shahid Andrabi
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