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This August 15th we as a nation will complete 61 years of independence. Independence from British imperialism and a period of exploitation of the country, its resources and therefore its psyche. The Indian Psyche was crushed under the fierce desire of the English empire to colonize the whole world.

The British Empire started its Raj after the Battle of Plassey, in 1757 when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the Company by granting the ‘Diwani’ or the right to collect revenue. The Indian sub continent saw many upheavals since then, violent and non violent, but not much inroad was made till the entry of Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi, a stranger to India and its politics, did not enter the struggle with a call for an independent nation but was an opponent of basic discrimination and abusive labour treatment. His satyagrahas were a major shift from the violent movements and an appeal to the conscience of the British, by highlighting the immoral face of the British enactments by the use of non violent civil disobedience. In his own words “civil disobedience is civil breach of unmoral statutory enactments.”

Gandhi’s ability to inspire millions of common people became clear when he used Satyagraha during the anti-Rowlett Act protests in Punjab. The Rowlett Act, also known as the Black Act, vested the Viceroy’s government with extraordinary powers to quell sedition by silencing the press, detaining the political activists without trial, and arresting any individuals suspected of sedition or treason without a warrant.

Today, as a citizen of independent India I am seeing another kind of slavery, which if not addressed will result in a devastating end for all generations. The dominion and Raj of the mind, by thoughts, ideas and arguments which sets itself up against the knowledge of the Truth. The right to decide what is right or wrong and the freedom to stick to it, which seems as if it is there but is not. The imperialistic ideas and ambitions of colonizing the mind, by a few.

We are getting exploited by ideas of those few who have control over the media, government, industry and entertainment. The minds are being led away as slaves of concepts and movements which can be termed as only immoral and unethical. You are seeing in the media mighty proponents of loose living through homosexuality, pre marital affairs and sex, rave partying and use of drugs and alcohol by the rich and the famous. See some of the newspapers and you will find the truth. They are setting the agenda and everybody has to follow it, anybody who opposes is termed as narrow minded and an enemy of liberalistic thinking.

We are seeing our government representatives showing off bundles of money on TV which were used to buy their votes, who got away without being reprimanded by the nation. Corruption at every level, setting examples for the young to use any and every method to achieve their goals, bribing everybody who comes in the way, to keep their mind and mouth shut.

Indian Industry is selling dreams to young people, who are toiling it away in BPO’s, aviation industry, retail and buying their time for peanuts. There is no space and time left for the youth to think about their lives and the wreckage in their homes, when career and goals have been so glorified that anything else that comes in the way needs to be crushed, integrity and ethics have become words of the past. Corporates where manpower is abundant but value for human life is in shortage.

The entertainment industry is selling sleaze and exalting the use of tobacco, drugs, rash driving and porn. The smoking Shahrukh, the speed demon John Abraham and socialite Paris Hilton are youth icons getting more than their fair share of media coverage. Internet and other forms of entertainment are flush with immorality, any desire to protest is crushed with the modern day concepts of existentialism and new age cults and motivation gurus. Life on your own terms and philosophies which help in establishing the new wave of looking inwards and seeking the power within when everything that we see in us and around us shows us a Creator.

2000 years back, Christ came to earth. Born in Israel, a nation ruled by the Roman government, using its people and collecting revenues which broke them financially and morally. But he addressed the moral issue first and was clear that the spiritual kingdom needs to be established first before any earthly kingdom was removed. He like Gandhi did not even propagate a Civil disobedience but said to his people to remain subject to the earthly rulers by paying the taxes when drawing their attention to spiritual dominion of the evil in their hearts. He said ‘Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God’.

HE was the one who showed the way of nonviolence and the way to address the moral issues exemplified by Gandhi and many others who became the founding fathers of great nations. Christ said that ‘If somebody hits you on one cheek, show the other’ also telling us that being freed by the truth that HE brings us is above all types of redemption. Today’s Rowlett Act cannot deny my right to create an opinion, an opportunity for fair trial (listening) and without a logical reasoning (warrant) it cant arrest my belief ,as Christ had suffered all this and more on my behalf when HE died on the cross.

All those who wish to join this struggle can say with me ‘Halla Bol’.

Tags: Alcohol, British Empire, civil disobedience, Drugs, Gandhi, homosexuality, Independence, pre-marital affairs, rave party, sex

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