The BJP Manifesto

BJP released its Election Manifesto 2009 yesterday on the occasion of Ram Navmi. I downloaded the entire text and printed it, otherwise really cumbersome reading the tome online. (Full text here). Now I felt it a necessary and interesting exercise worth the effort and time for two reasons - 1. My political alignation with BJP 2. To find an answer to the overarching question 'Define India'.

Now this post is not meant to highlight the key points in the manifesto. For anyone interested in that, more qualified and erudite psephologists are dissecting and trisecting it all over the media. My intent here is to focus on point no. 2 above. Being a nationalist that I am, I am happy to have found a beautiful document which captures India at 30,000 ft level. The adrenaline content in my bloodstream shoots up just reading the scope, the magnitude, the diversity, the spellbinding richness of something which has been sadly pedestrianized in the 21st century - 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti'

To all the cynics of Indian democrary, I make out a earnest, resounding yet humble appeal. There might be corruption, depravity, debauchery all over the Indian ethos - in its people, in its polity, in its corporates; but there is a remarkable method to the madness!! Please appreciate that. Please acknowledge how over 1 billion people use their fingers to collectively resolve their destiny. Please avoid lambasting the system when you yourself are a part of it. Please live and let live.