Is India a Fragile democratic country?

That’s the question that I asked myself when I read about the North – Eastern state crisis, whether we are fragile democratic country.

Let’s have a look at the History of India, as per my understanding of the History. India came to existence because of the British Empire. If we look back beyond that, there are only two empires, which ruled our whole state, the Maurya Empire and the Mughals.

So leaving out the Maurya, the Mughals and the Birtish Empire, throughout the history we have been scattered. If we look deep into the History, we are 9500 years old, in this we were together for around 508yrs (137 yrs Maurya, 181 yrs by Mughals, 190 yrs by British). That’s pretty much very less compared to the History of our origin.

In this 508yrs of United India, the large parts of the North Eastern states (except Assam) were never been part of the Maurya or the Mughal empires.

When we attained Independence from the British Empire, it was left to the provinces either join India or Pakistan or given an option to be an Independent state.

As a Modern state, we are a 59 year old county, with 29 different states and 6 union territories. It will be real great challenge to address all concerns and there are bound to be differences. Well we have differences in each state itself.

Coming to the North–Eastern state crisis, I sincerely feel it’s due to negligence from the political parties and due to lack of development. Well how many people know all the states and their capital cities of North-East India.

They feel Isolated from the Rest of India and this has led to the frustration among the people and voices of Independence.

To the question, are we fragile? YES, we are fragile. If we look at the representation of the North-East India, it’s not properly represented in the Parliament of India and that’s where it’s getting ignored.

If India has to be strong and undivided, we have to make sure that everyone is represented equally and everyone gets the share of the development.

If India is going be divided on the basis of Caste, Religion or based on number of seats in the Parliament we will be fragile as a state.

Gandhi re-visited or Gandhigiri

There is a lot of buzz on the air on Gandhisim and his way of living. Thanks to the Bollywood film “Lage raho munna bhai”, this gave us a new word ‘Gandhigiri’. The word ‘Gandhigiri’ means following Gandhi’s principles and living as per his ideologies.

Gandhi’s Contribution to Independence of India

There’s a lot written and said about his contribution to the Independence of India. There are lots of critics who have argued saying that his contribution to the struggle is arguable than that of other leaders who have carried out there struggle.

The critics argue that he stole the limelight & the whole attention that he got is debatable. As there are other leaders like Balgangadhar thilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Chandrasekhar Azad, Lala Lajpat Rai, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and some other great leaders.

His followers argue that he as a leader was able to bring the common people to the struggle of Independence, before that it was only the much higher educated people where taking part in the struggle.

There is a point here; Gandhi was more popular than other leaders because of the way he took on the Freedom struggle. He was able to gather support from the common people because of his way of leaving and the path he took, Non-Violence.

Because the way of he leaved was very simple, the common man was able to relate to him and took note of his speeches. That’s where he stole the limelight from other leaders and become one of the greatest leaders in the History.

What Gandhi did different from other leaders was; he leaved very simple life where common people can relate to him and saw him as the leader who can take them forward. He did lose much of his glory at the end of his life.

Nevertheless, he did what others where not able to; bring the masses together irrespective of their background.

Enjoy the Gandhigiri for know.