Yes, some people always oppose. Even when you offer them their choicest pudding after their most sumptuous meal ever, they would look at it queerly and blame its texture. Something has to be wrong in everything for them. Sagarika Ghose is one of theme.
Calling them skeptics is giving them a psychological positivity, which isn't what it is because they don't bear the rationality of a skeptic. Calling them intellectuals is an abuse of mind power as their opposition comes from instinct and not intellect. Calling them cautious is unreal as they don't have the responsibility of finding a direction. They are just imprudent, wrongly determined and negative to the core. They lend a constant opposition to everything big and small. No matter how genuine an opinion, political will, development, social initiative, economic reform or justice, they would quickly get behind the back and begin to stab. They are an eternal irritant to any effort of honestly transforming the society. Einstein once said, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Yes, they are as timeless as being reckless. And they have this quirk DNA - Determined Negative Attitude.
And it is strange that this DNA has increased leaps and bound in the past two and half years in India , since one of the most efficient governance in the history of independent India was established by Mr. Narendra Modi. Throughout the election process, when these pseudo-urban and pseudo-intellectual english speaking community, comprised of members of polity, press , bolly wood and public saw the emergence of a new democratic force, they tried to negate the imminent change by projecting imaginative human rights, environmental degradation and freedom of speech cases that were never found substantiated even by the highest courts of the land.
When with sustained speed the Government laid out a progressive developmental agenda, they screamed of charges that they themselves could not clearly articulate. When in the recent times a determined anti-corruption and anti-black money drive began with unprecedented resolve, they tried instigating people against the move. These people with the quirk DNA want at any cost to paint a picture of tyranny, anarchy and chaos in the country and are immensely active in all the three 'P's of India - Press, Public and Parliament. However, people see through their hollowness in all these fora and laugh at them, bearing in mind that whatever seemingly difficult situations that are created by the progressive policies of this Government are only ephemeral, transient and for the larger public good in time.
The lesson is bright and bold. Quirk DNA does not lead you to progress. It will not lead you to national transformation. It will only lead you to historical gloom that will snatch the support from under your children's feet. These people, who are out to wreck the nation irresponsibly should realize that DNA should mean a different thing - Develop National Answerability
VK Saxena
NCCL
Ahmedabad
