Dear Members of
#AwardWapsi cadre,
I sincerely
appreciate your motive of showing fermentation towards the intolerance
situation (whether really or remotely existing) in the country. It is your
constitutional right to create this new trend with absolutely no doubt. It is
indeed a creative way of inventing new form of national agitation. Good to go
but not at ground level. I have below three incidental broad questions to you.
- Why were you unable to bring these awards out of your drawing rooms and raise your voice along with the chorus when the country was agitating against corruption?
- Were you dormant when there was a collective agitation towards increasing number of rape cases in the country?
- Have you been very busy in your own businesses in ambitioning for more awards when the real Dalits of across all parts of the country in all means have been suppressed and not given deserved rights since the first republic day of the country?
I have cautiously
listed the three radically diverse national issues of the country among the
plenty so that you cannot claim that it was a personal preference towards any
national agitation in the country. If you feel that any of the above three
issues is unimportant in comparing with the current religious commentaries, I
personally doubt your reasoning behind the decision of following this
#AwardWapsi trend.
However, if your
prime objective is to curb the ruling party's attitude towards the religious
sentiments or the freedom of religion of the people of this humongous country,
you should not encourage this kind of practices which would eventually keep the
fire ON amongst the people to disturb our national secular health with
unforeseen consequences. If you claim that you aren't motivated by the
opposition, you needn't have involved in disrespecting the nation rather could
have involved in disrespecting the ruling party who owns the blame. Awards are
mere tokens of recognitions. Do you mean in any way to discourage the talent
recognitions by creating the trend of returning the awards owing to trivial
national disturbance? Oops, you are right! It isn't trivial in your personal
court. Are you okay to dilute the quality of presenting awards to the real
talents in the offing after this kind of protest?
If you try to show
off that you prioritize secularism than anything else in the country, would
that mean that your secularism principle de-scope the balanced recognitions of
oppressed societies who have been suffering in the country since the inception
of constitution? Would that mean that 'Right to Religion' tops the list of all
other rights of the Indian constitution? Would that mean that the irritation of
Government's involvement to your kitchen in advising what to cook is a bigger
problem than the Government unable to pass Lokpal bill in the parliament or a GST or a revised land
acquisition bill? Would that mean, 55% of Dalit population who belong to all
religions (who are 17% of India's population according to 2011 census) are
still living below the poverty line even after 68 years of independence, is
still a lower priority to protest than the above one to claim intolerance?
In spite of POA
(Preventions of Atrocities) Act 1989, in every 18 minutes a Dalit is targeted
for a crime, 3 women raped every day, 13
murdered every week, 27 various atrocities happens across the country every
day, 6 kidnapped every week. This could be an ideal case of intolerance rather
than your religious intention.
I would also want to
highlight that in any case, I am not supporting the ongoing activities which
are polluting the secular air in the country and I whole heartedly share my
condolence to the ruling party by being the silent observer or in some cases,
the root cause bearer of the reported cases. But, I strictly do not welcome
this style of agitation by returning the tokens of recognitions which isn't a
good direction to the forthcoming generations from the reputed personalities of
the country. Also, the incumbent Government is relatively better in marching
towards the national growth indicators both economically and politically, so
let us not stop the pace by encouraging this kind of motives on its take off.
It is democracy, you
are absolutely allowed to step into the street and make some noise on what you
dislike. Why don't you try this rather polarizing the issue to the extreme?
Chronologically, polarization is meant for the politicians but the public. Nobody is having right to claim that the state of India is 'Intolerant' and create a false perception among people. Do you really want to condemn or call for a
bigger consequence? This selective patriotism is going to lead us nowhere. So, please rethink before you return the next one or get
the next one!
Thanks to
#AnupamKher to organize a protest against the false #AwardWapsi noise.
Faithfully,
A random common Indian man named Gurucharan.
