A Day Divine

 January 26 is indeed important for us Indians. If August 15 celebrates our Independence, January 26 solemnizes our sovereignty.

In my opinion, our sovereignty is of utmost importance in the current context. No, I am not talking merely of our borders and the Chinese attempts to tamper with our frontiers. Abler minds of strategists and stronger bodies of the soldiers are fit to take  care of that tangible threat. 

Here  I am referring to other subtler menaces that are not immediately visible, yet are real  palpable dangers. Given the high consumerism in the post globalised world, the MNC/TNC conglomerates are the genuine most hazard to the national sovereignty. The pandemic can itself be an example if conspiracy theories are to be believed. There is a strong likelihood as per the conspiracy theories that the trans- national pharmaceutical companies created the monster virus scare that spiralled out of control of most nations, whatever tier they may belong to, advanced to underdeveloped.

In the same fashion, AI controlled warfare, given the digital revolution, can assume Frankenstein proportions. The very invisibility and yet dominant presence of such enemies that can create unique warfare that include chemical weapons harming bodies and thought infections ruining minds is a lurking demon difficult to be bottled.

Identity politics carried on at schizophrenic decibles is yet another threat to the federal and sovereign status of a multi-cultural entity like our country. Such 'media'-ted pogroms by all sorts of 'interest' groups imprison minds and vision in a truly threatening way, given the underlying 'we' better than 'them' binary scripting such narratives of ALL shades and sizes.

Which are the solutions? Thinking minds that can gauge, question, critique the chinks in the armours of ALL the subjugating strategies. The best solution has to be the right to education to create such an ambience. More debates about the NPE, about Liberal education, about credit banks that can energies the multi-disciplinarity, allowing foreign universities without compromising on equity, multiple are the ways to create an efficient educational ecosystem to use the current  buzzword. As we enter the seventy fifth year of our Independence, we are to thus become internally strong and resilient.

Pratima@sovereignty of, by, for people