‘We the People’ Then ‘n Now – A Case for Constitutional Changes

By Murthy, BS

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Title:	‘We the People’ Then ‘n Now – A Case for Constitutional Changes
Author:	Murthy, BS
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Religion, Demographic studies, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Indian Constitution, Indian freedom movement, Indian democracy, Indian politics, Indian demography, Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar
Collections:	Authors Community, Politics
Historic Publication Date:	2024
Publisher:	Self Imprint

Member Page:	BS Murthy
Citation APA MLA Chicago Murthy, B. (2024). ‘We the People’ Then ‘n Now – A Case for Constitutional Changes. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Being in the seventy-fifth year of our republic, it is imperative that WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA must evaluate THOSE PEOPLE OF INDIA, who had adopted our constitution. But to put things into perspective, who ‘We’ are need to be ascertained for the constitution, instead of forging India into an unified nation, turned it into a conglomeration of disparate entities, though by then, Gurajada had famously stated that ‘it’s not the soil but its people that make a country’ (desamante mattikadoi, desamante manushuloi). So, given that the Hindu majority is ‘the other’ for the Muslim minority, the raison d'être for India’s partition on the Islamic lines and as the evangelists are ever engaged in harvesting the ‘heathen’ Hindu souls for their Christian salvation, effectually in the Indian socio-political context, ‘We’ are the Hindus, then as well as now.

Summary
It pays us to know that our forbears’ complacency on the same score brought their Akhand Bharat to Jinnah’s Pakistani pass. And given that demography is destiny, our failure now to heed to history, over time, would ensue to our progeny three nations in Gurajada parlance that of the Hindus, the Musalmans, and the Christians in the self-same Indian soil. So as to avert that from ever happening, it is imperative that WE THE AWARE PEOPLE OF INDIA should bring about suitable changes in our untenable constitution by binding our parliamentarians to that task.

Excerpt
When Mohandas Gandhi took the satyagraha path to free India from the British rule, as that was in sync with their pacifist psyche, shaped by the foreign yokes for a millennium, Hindus in their millions flocked to him wide-eyed as if awoke from their collective slumber. However, having sensed that the dispiriting Gandhian way would be self-defeating in every which way, when Subhas Bose came up with ‘give me your blood, I’ll give you freedom’ tune, by and large, it failed to attune with the by then enervated Hindus. It’s as if they were content with having their satyagraha bones broken by the British lathis, bandageable as they were. Whatever, by the time the Union Jack was folded in India, albeit after unfolding the Islamic green in Pakistan, culled out for the Musalmans, Gandhi became a mahatma and his whims the Hindu code and his fancies the Indian credo. What’s worse, his artificial halo has been sustained over the years through a lauding school curriculum and the flattering propaganda machine meant to further the electoral interests of Nehru and his political dynasty in India’s democracy. Though of late, thanks to the information revolution, it transpired that it was not Gandhi’s Quit India ripples that forced the Brits to abandon our shores but it was owing to the fear of Bose’s militaristic impulses surging in the British Indian Army singing them that made them flee, and that’s in Atlee’s words.