Does anyone still have any doubt that our country, under the patronage of the Sanghi clique, is going through a new era of fascism, one that none of us as citizens could have imagined? The Constitution, democracy, and law have all been cast aside, replaced by the Sanghi clique's verbal directives. A gang of thugs, carrying out these directives, is also operating in an organized manner, with well-known access to all organs of power. On the strength of this access, they are now daring to punish ordinary citizens in public, and the institution of the judiciary is no longer necessary. As a citizen, a writer, a creator, a thinker, speaking, writing, thinking, expressing dissent, raising questions, and raising voices for one's rights — all these are crimes today. For this, you can be labelled and punished with epithets like traitor, anti-national, Pakistani... etc. Now, only that action is right that pleases the power, flatters it, and hails those in power in the name of the nation. Fascism doesn't need citizens to advance its campaign, it needs obedient subjects who will unhesitatingly accept its handouts and sing the praises of the power. Those who fail to do so have no right to live in this country, and their citizenship will be taken away. Bertolt Brecht said about fascism that it can even choose its own people. This is precisely what is happening in India today. We are witnessing with our own eyes the real danger of millions of citizens being stripped of their citizenship in the name of SIR, depriving them not only of the right to vote but also of state welfare benefits and basic civil rights, and we are also witnessing the silence of the judiciary in the face of this barbarity. The rule of law has now been replaced by Sanghi thugs, who are attacking public struggles and movements, sometimes minorities, sometimes journalists, and sometimes travelers and animal traders.

Fascists have no kin. They prosper by deceiving the nation, culture, religion, and relationships. They cultivate a group of fanatics whose sole aim is to crush the greatest human achievements. Thoughtlessness, irrationality, and unscientific thinking are integral to their thought process. They are most repulsed by science and rationality, because these are the only assets human civilization possesses that can thwart fascism's aims.

The democracy we developed over the last 60 years had many weaknesses and many evils. But the fascism that the Sanghi gang has fostered over the last 12 years, no matter how strong it may appear, cannot be a substitute for a weak democracy. Because the entire vision of fascism is anti-human. It views humanity, its labour, and creativity as mere means to fill the coffers of corporations. This requires the elimination of the thought and process of debate and inclusiveness from life. This is precisely what is happening today in the name of the "Modi Chalisa" : whatever Modi says is right, everyone else is a traitor. Such a vision has no connection to the goals of democracy, inclusion, and preserving the nation's unity. Such a vision cannot even evaluate : neither the country, nor the people, nor the economy, nor even the ruling party. They are merely ideological slaves. An idea emerges from the corporate elite, to which the center of power is captive, and this idea, without any modification, revision, discussion, or critique, is spread throughout the country as a pungent stench, declaring, "This is the fragrance, accept it." Those who are not prepared for this must consider it their compulsion to live with it. This is Hindutva, which has no connection to Indian thought and tradition. The true purpose of this Hindutva is to cozy up to power and benefit its corporate allies. To achieve this, it requires weaving a web of thoughtlessness.

There has been barbarism and plunder in the world. But human civilization has never been in favour of it; on the contrary, it has developed by fighting against it. India is no exception. The grassroots and ideological struggle against barbarism and plunder will continue, and no embankment can contain this flow of thought. The liberal, humanistic vision of democracy will prevail over the anti-human vision of fascism ; the emerging conflict between Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha is a sign of this. The sermon given by Mohan Bhagwat, the leader of the Sanghi clique, in America also proves that no idea of ​​hatred can permanently dominate the ideas of world brotherhood. It is a different matter that in its attempt to imitate Vivekananda, the 'Bhagwat-Pravachan' has proved to be a mere tusk. The whole world is watching Bhagwat's statement in America and his Sanghi gang doing the complete opposite in India.


The author is an independent writer on  politics, social and agrarian issues. The views are personal.