The Demise Of A Nation.

From ‘chaiwala’ to ‘chowkidar’

An excellent ‘kalakar’.

Balakot to A-SAT…

Feels like House of Cards.

Rafale, GDP calculation, MUDRA…. Silenced and lost

National security became the one and only thought.

The Armed forces private ‘sena’

An individual the nation’s ‘sapoot’ and ‘nagina’.

From URI to Accidental Prime Minister

Political agendas through entertainment administered.

This is how elections are won

Definitely not how a nation should be run!

Our nationalism evoked

Our religious beliefs provoked.

Cities renamed 

Cultures erased.

The minority marginalized

Every issue politicized.

Weakening of institutional freedom

Altering history through the curriculum.

The censorship of opinion

The curtailment of individualism.

Popular media enslaved

Right to information betrayed.

Sedition laws imposed

Official Secrets Act proposed.

Representing a minority questionable

Saffron terrorism not answerable.

Intimidation and violence acceptable ways of life

Lynching, Communal and Caste based violence a matter of pride.

Society more and more polarized

Friends and families breaking ties.

Dissent today is termed anti-national 

Nationalism now means having no rational.

Law makers blatantly breaking the law

Unabashed examples Babri and Sabarmala.

The pride we had in the mergers of varied cultures

Being torn apart by religious political vultures.

We stand to lose the very fabric of this nation

The secularism promised by our very Constitution.

We are heading towards the death of democracy

The demise of a multi-cultured tolerant society.

Is this a future we envision for our children?

A nation based on hatred and division?

No change is very drastic or sudden

But in a few years our country will be beyond recognition.

Will we then ponder how this came about?

For in agreement or silence we have contributed beyond doubt.