Agreeing to disagree or disagreeing to agree on a viewpoint as well as an action between two parties led to peacetime in the first case and to souring of relationships in the second. When one of the sides is administration embarking on measures ostensibly for the good of citizens, the other side comprises sections of the land’s population, not seeing eye-to-eye as it were with the former party and disagreeing in toto generating reactions leading to consequences that the country’s ever alert media has been reporting with graphic details 365 days a year to which the passive sections of society prefer to remain as mute witness. The response, nay violent reaction by the multitude of outfits taking up the cause of the sections targeted by the unsuspecting administration snowballs to tossing India’s democracy in 3-D mode —Dissent, Demonstration, Disruption. Even as the nation has slid to this mode and its diaspora is watching with bated breath, leaders of a new genre are emerging accompanying followers, most of whom have axe to grind and also scores to settle. The leaders gobbling cash carved out of public funds and becoming nouveau riche, leaving the followers in the street as it were doesn’t need elaboration.
Looking back, the event of the country coming under self-rule had its euphoric moments despite partition that was witness to lawlessness and loss of lives in lakhs. What has been happening in the country over the past half century, thanks to its 3-D image, doesn’t see its masses in good light.
