My experience with the JNU incident - An Ethmos solution of many problems.

So, now everyone in our country wants "Azaadi" (Freedom), Bhagwan (oh sorry....I forgot to mention Allah and God....just  to be on the good books of the grand seculars of our country) only knows what sort of azaadi they want when the bulky constitution of this ancient land provides them with all sort of freedoms ranging from expression, information, and education.  May be it is this excess of freedom that has led to this kind of worsening condition of our Bharat which is going from worse to worst as days progress, no thanks to the ISI or any "external forces" but all thanks and deepest heartfelt gratitude to our own homegrown secularist partisan forces who for their own petty gains have sold the nation to these external forces.

However, the JNU row or incident has opened up a Pandora's box for our country with all sort of problems occurring at the same time for our unfortunate PM whose intentions are nothing but to make a better Bharat for all of us.  But thanks to this incident, I got a glimpse of a solution to all this issue and many more plaguing our nation.  However, I am really to sorry to say that the solution is not unique as is the case with other Ethmos solutions, but it is a great solution nonetheless.

So before we go for the solution, let me just share with you a small incident that is happening with me in our own house, which enlightened me with the solution.  As we all know by experience of science that the macro, in majority of the cases, mimics the micro.  So, if you have to study the macro, better observe the micro.  So, here goes.

I was keenly following the JNU incident since that is nowadays the best entertainment available on the TV and many of our national news channels are doing their level best to make it the most interesting TRP-vomiting drama to their viewers.  Unfortunately, I failed to notice that my 5-1/2-year-old son was also watching and listening to this stuff about "azaadi", "freedom", "secularism", "democracy", "tolerance-intolerance", "suicide", etc. and started asking me questions regarding the same.  When I explained to him about these concepts in a simplified manner for his 5-1/2-year-old brain to grasp & understand, I forgot to notice that I was pressing the wrong buttons altogether.  From the next morning onward, he started demanding for his "azaadi" to not brush his teeth, not take a bath, and not go to school.  He demanded his democratic freedom to play all throughout the day and also that since we, his parents, were responsible for bringing him into this world, it is our solemn and secular duty to make sure that we give all of our time exclusively to him only.  He demanded we should not go to work and should be there for him 24x7x365.  When explained regarding our problem and the bigger problems that will come if we don't work and earn and also explaining to him that we are actually earning and working for him only, he just remained adamant and started shouting slogans "Aryan maange azaadi (Aryan demands freedom)", "Nahane se azaadi (freedom from bathing)", "safaai se azaadi (freedom from cleanliness)", and the best but not the last one, "Kitne Aryan nehlaoge, har ghar se Aryan niklega (how many Aryans will you bathe, every house will produce a dirty Aryan)", "and finally threatened us to do "zuzide" if his demands are not met.  And yes, he also demanded that we should not be henceforth taking him to any doctor for any sort of vaccination since injections/vaccinations are painful procedures which infringe on his personal space and secular democratic constitutional freedom and which many a times require him to get denuded in front of doctors who are strangers for him, which is again a gross infringement of his personal democratic space.  I was totally aghast at the attitude of the boy and at first plucked my hairs out in frustration to explain to him the larger picture and the benefits that accrue out of our actions and also that anything and everything good in life is obtained after sacrificing and taking some pain.  But I was again missing one thing - he was my son after all and it was but natural for him to have some of my mental and physical faculties as well as genetically transferred traits and hence it will be very difficult for me to preach him "intellectually" since he is also as skull-headed as I am with the ingrained notions of "right" and "wrong" - and what "we" were doing was actually "wrong" in his eyes.  Anyways, I solved the problem in one day itself because after all I am his "baap" (father).  How??  I sat calmly on the sofa, thought for some time, and then called my son towards me with all the love and affection I had for him.  And with the same fatherly love and affection, I gave him a nice hard tight slap on his small face, so harsh that my fingers got 'signatured' on his snow-white face.  He understood what I wanted to say and the problem just solved on its own.

Which finally brings me to our solution.  Sometimes brute force is absolutely necessary to bring in some iota of wisdom in the boneheads who think that what they are doing is "right."  Forget about the country, I request each one of you reading this to ask yourself this question - Have you not ever used some or the other force on your child to discipline him/her and show him the correct path which you yourself have learned through precious and costly experiences?  Our college kids are no better than the children at our homes the only difference being that the perspective and the magnitude of perception of a problem varies with a small child and collegian. And yes, for the "sickulars" reading this - you might argue that I am questioning the entire democratic process of the country but yes, I actually am doing the same thing because simple maths tells me that only 65% of my country's population is literate (and believe me, writing one's name in any language is not literacy!).  So out of the 65% population, how many are who can actually think critically and analyze a situation to find a solution for the greater good?  This is a question which needs to be debated and of course, not to be "protested" or "intolerated".

The kids who are shouting in the JNU campus or the Jadavpur University campus or any part of the nation are just that - kids - who need to be disciplined and for bringing about discipline, preaching won't help as I have learnt from my own experience.  Fear is the best solution and I fully and unconditionally support the stand of the NaMo Government in slapping sedition charges against "intellectuals" who think they are above the nation and its government.

Which again brings me to an age-old question which I could never find an answer to - What is the requirement of a "students" union in a democratic country?  Are they any sort of daily-wage-earning labourers who need the support of a union to protect against "capitalistic discrimination"?  It is high time to ban all the union activities in all campuses in the country.  If this is brought forth, education and research quality will improve, politics will be decrease, and students will actually do what they are supposed to do - study. Period.

Thanks a lot Ethmos for permitting me to put forth my frustration.  I had been writhing to poop this thing out of my mind.

Happy Ethmos to All!