Which is right ?

         
                                           Nationalism vs Anti nationalism ....                             

It has been few days now, debates of nationalism and anti-nationalism are all over the media and other platforms. Even after all these discussions we still need to understand the real meaning of nationalism. Many people have their own opinions and definitions of nationalism and they entitled to have their own, no arguments on that. If somebody's opinion is not inline to ours , we can't say they are anti-nationals.

From few days , we are witnessing some debates on these issue.People are not only defining their thoughts on nationalism but they are calling other people anti-nationals if their opinion differs from  others. Is this a good development ? should not we concerned about this ? Is it necessary that everybody should prove their patriotism and accepts any views of others. India is democratic country, each and everyone has their own thought process, we should learn to respect them instead of arguing and attacking them blindly. 

Patriotism is not only sloganeering for India and against the others, its something else. How can someone accusing and abusing, beating innocents, harassing in the name of patriotism be nationalist. Taking law into our hands , leveling false allegations,  disrespecting other people views, judging someone without evidence, labeling someone guilty even before court trail, behaving like  goons can never be either patriots or responsible citizens traits. If someone is really guilty, the nation's law or concerned institution would take its own course. We should learn to respect this process. Instead if we over react to allegations based on unverified evidence , we will end up nowhere.

Niranjan

Politics on death

                                                                   Politicizing the unfortunate death ............

Few days ago, the death of Rohit, issues revolving around that death engulfed whole India. It was completely unfortunate incident that could ever happen. whatever the reasons, this death was not necessary and the young man  should not have given up his life.

We should hold our heads down for  events which unfolded later on.Demeaning his credentials, suspecting his motives and plying politics round his dead body was the most disrespect we shown. The loss of any young lives not justified for any reasons. We as society be held responsible for all which happens around us. Did we hear his voice ? did we understand his concerns ? at least , did we ever try to introspect instead of politicizing the issue. Why students today getting involved in this kind of controversies, was he alone responsible for that deadly fate ? . The institutions, students , politicians all should behave in their own limits. They should understand the views of others and behave responsibly. 

Instead of retrospecting the events which engender this egregious incident, we kept fighting hard to prove which caste and religion he belongs to, whom he used to interact, what was his opinion on current ruling establishment, which political party he had recognized with . Even though had done few mistakes , he should have given some opportunity. Society should have listened to him, if he was wrong it was our responsibility to rectify it.  But we as a society have failed miserably  in addressing thousands of such young men who have lost their life. Instead of blaming people who are no more around us,we should feel ashamed of what has happend to him.

We have to be cautious before someone else take this kind of extreme steps. The influence of politicians and political parties directly or indirectly on educational institutions might adversely effect the student groups and results in this kind of unfortunate incidents.  

Niranjan