Just recently, we were hailed as an 8th powerful nation in
the world and simultaneously lampooned as a nation having most “insecure
capital “in the world. First garners fame, latter disperse shame. Quite
visibly, there is a Grey chasm of paradox between optimism and pessimism. And
herein lies the seeds of hypocrisy, dualism, and double standards. Which is as
lethal as venom of cobra for the nation.
‘We the people of India’, as stated in our preamble, since its inception, of a ‘new
India’, have derived and adopted two separate standards to practice our lives
than our constitution. Our politicians are axiom and epitome of this practice -
"double standards’. Since they
are our representatives, so, we too, are eligible to share the same guilt of ‘hypocrisy’.
The practice of dualism exists in two forms. First, at political platform,
which is staged by our so - called statesmen.
Second, at social and individual platform,
a domain, in which we exist. We are now-days quite accustomed to digest
regressive actions and progressive preaches of the government. To understand this,
take latest example of coal gate (coal scam). Govt. preaches in terms of giving
more autonomy to CBI, but without any fail, through regressive actions, solemnly
committed to emaciate its soul.
We may trace the sign of prevailing double
standards in society by considering two contemporary examples. First one is
about glitz and glamour of IPL.
second is about screams and squalor
of Vidarbh - Marathwada (region in Maharashtra) which is horrendously inflicted
by drought this year. First one is religiously supported by public and government;
latter is indiscriminately ignored and sidelined by the same. First one depicts
the shining image of the nation; latter refutes it by its cruel display of
reality.We love to count and learn the statistics of sixes hit by Chris Gayle,
but same statistics marinated in death toll of famished souls in some deserted
locations creates no frisson.
Some news hungry reporters may make it quite newsy but
they too loose the battle for keeping such reality as breaking news. On logical platform we may put it as, "it is just
next to impossible to revolve around such decay". But on the moral platform
we must ask to ourselves first, whey does the bruised life of a skeleton like
malnourished infant not create any ripple of disgust? Why its unwarranted death
is just meant to be added in the register of statistics so that, so called
intellectual can flaunt their complex opinion just to win the war of gaudy, vulgar arguments.
At personal level, we need to introspect as well. We are taught
in our childhood – ‘dahej lena buri baat
hai’( it is immoral to accept dowry). At school level, we, all write, an
essay – ‘DOWERY- A BANE’. We compose it with utter beauty of expression. But, in
later stage of our lives somehow or the other, citing social custom, gluing it
with prestige, we subvert this bookish moral into an utter acceptance. When a
corrupt practice breathe over a long period of time. It returns to us in the
guise of specious dogmas, rigid culture and baseless traditions. This way we have come, and this has become our
modus operandi – hypocrisy.
In time, when we are witnessing heart rendering incident
ranging from horrific Delhi (India) to
Kot Lakhpat ( Pakistan) ,where one
innocent Indian civilian – Sarabjeet singh killed without any hint, we must address
the prevailing
enigma of double standards at national level. Equally, at personal level, we must conclude that
whether we want to live by the hypocritical attitude in life or the manner in
which we are supposed to live which separates us from menial standards of
animals.
Unless and until, we don’t feel strangulated, throttled in
the tattered attire of double standard attitude- be it at national level or
personal one, we will continuously be inflicted by rotten, hollow and depreciating
standards of life……and as Fredrick William Robertson says,’ There
are three things in the world
that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.’ We, at least,
can afford to play like demon when it comes to hypocrisy……
