Where was I?!

 It has been more than three years since I wrote a blog. 

Yes, three whole years. 

I am alive, and have been in good health all these while. But somewhere somehow, I lost the motivation to write blogs. If you go through my previous blogs, you can clearly see I used to post my comments on the world affairs then. I used to post them on the feeling that I would be happy if at least a single person gets something of value from this site. But then, over time, I began to think- why am I writing, what change can I, a dork sitting in front of a screen, could do typing away words as if he would change the world using his words. 

That was when I realized my eerie mind opened its rusty doors to the real political scenario. We are made to believe that we live in a political democracy, where the public governs. But is it so? In the past 75 years of India's independence, when have the people governed themselves? When have they been treated as the king by the so-called 'servants of the society'? 

It is really sad to realize that democracy has failed half-way down the road. Many countries struggle to first establish independence, then democracy. But where is this democracy? Our inability to solve many of the internal problems have invited external factors. This internal problem is mainly caused by the rulers than the ruled. Often they are so power-intoxicated that they forget the commitment that they have towards those who have elected them. Leaders are being treated royally with the tax-payers money while the general public have to fight for the bare minimums. Prices are soaring, inflations are at an all-time high, yet the ruling class are more interested in the never-ending power-tussle and the soaring intolerance in the nation, where one is immediately termed 'anti-national' on criticizing the government. The strong concrete pillars of secularism and unity and the strength and hope that it imparted to every citizen of this nation in spite of his beliefs, has now been replaced by pillars of religions, made out of gypsum. The fact that the leaders too stand along with those who spread such propaganda is horrifying to the core. This very fact has made me one amongst the majority section of the society fed up of politics. 

The fault lines of the trust factor on the procedural democracy as well as the bureaucratic services of this nation is widening day-by-day. The youth is so frustrated that they are ready to leave this country on the next available flight, in search for a peaceful and better life, where the ruled is treated as the decision-makers and not the rulers. 

It is high time we speak out without the fear of being silenced. This nation, our motherland, is dying.