INDIA OF MY DREAMS
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by
(late) Com.VINODH MISRA
(Gen Secretary of
Communist Party of India ( CPI-ML)
(Liberation).
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Other than politics which to me means the medium revealing the intricacies of society, I take a great deal of interest in cosmology where the universe unfolds itself in infinite space and time; where galaxies fast recede into the ever-disappearing frontiers of universe away from each other; where stars emerge, glow and explode to death; and where, quite apparently, motion is the mode of existence of matter.
Motion, i.e., change and transformation — always from a lower to a higher order — also, incidentally, forms the mode of existence of human society.
No idea is absolute, no society is perfect.
Whenever a society has been conceived as the embodiment of the absolute idea, shock waves emerging from deep within have shaken its very foundations.
And then amidst the despair all around new dreams arise. Some dreams never come true as they are wild fantasies of the human mind, the ‘mind-in-itself’.
The few which are realized are essentially abstract creations of the human mind, the ‘mind-for-itself’.
Nonetheless, dreams, whether wild or plausible, have remained the source of human endeavor since perhaps the origin of humanity itself.
India of my dreams is essentially an integral India where a Pakistani Muslim won’t have to procure a visa in search of the roots of his evolution;
where, likewise, for an Indian the great Indus Valley Civilization does not fall in a foreign country;
and where a Bengali Hindu refugee will finally shed the bitter memories of Dacca and a Bangladeshi Muslim will not be hounded as a foreign national in India.
Great thinkers will surely arise in all the three countries and remould the public opinion for a brotherly reunion
In the India of my dreams, a Ganga and a Cauvery, and a Sindhu and a Brahmaputra, will freely flow into each other and the morning shall dawn to the jugalbandi of great musical tunes of India.
Some statesman will then compile his notes into a "Re-Discovery of India".
India of my dreams shall rise in the community of nations as a country which the weakest of neighbors shall not fear and
which the most powerful country in the world shall not be able to threaten or blackmail.
This India will rank among the first five countries of the world in economic prowess as well as in Olympic tallies.
India of my dreams shall have a secular state which shall rest upon the principle of ‘Sarva Dharma Varjite’ rather than ‘Sarva Dharma Sambhav’.
While not interfering with an individual’s faith, the state shall actively cultivate the scientific and rational world outlook.
Religion, as has rightly been said, is the expression of man’s powerlessness towards his environment.
Its abolition therefore demands a thoroughgoing change in the material and spiritual conditions of life where man can stand up to acquire mastery over his environment.
Whenever the conservative philosophical systems have burdened the people as deadweights, there have always come up in India great reformation movements
And thus I dream of a great resurgence of rational ideas where the human essence alienated in the form of God shall retrieve itself.
This great reformation of human minds shall accompany a social revolution where the producers of wealth shall also be the masters of their produce.
In India of my dreams, an Indian spaceship will wade through the deep space while Indian scientists and mathematicians will be working out equations integrating into a whole the fundamental forces of nature.
Finally, for me the mother of all dreams is a motherland where political liberty of each of its citizens will be valued most; where dissent will be considered legitimate and where Tiananmens of the system will be handled by the morally strong statesmen and unarmed forces of people’s militia.
India of my dreams is built upon the fundamental processes at work within the Indian society and for whose realization many like me are committed to the last drop of their blood.