What Indians have accomplished in 2014 is a civilizational moment of enormous significance in the affairs of people.
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Consistent with the idea of satyagraha which attained independence from colonial yoke in August 1947, people of India have spoken through the ballot.
Two great men arrived on the scene. One was Narendra Modi who had an extraordinary talent to directly connect with the people in an intimate conversational mode without any artificial tenors or turns of phrase deployed by some orators only to confound the audience. The other was Subramanian Swamy who was able to connect with the social media through groups exemplified by Patriotic Tweeters.
The message of Modi on the destiny of India as a resurgent power has been delivered with astonishing fervor and aplomb. All through the campaign which started in September 2013 and ended on May 10, 2014, there has not been a single moment of goof-up or false or empty rhetoric. What came through was a message delivered with clarity directly impacting every Indian present in a public meeting or in front of the TV screen or through slip-shod media snippets reported with mischievous or malafide intent. Many attempts were made to humiliate Modi or Subramanian Swamy but they have conducted themselves with grace and dignity, true to the traditions of the Hindu civilization.
Despite the shenanigans of the fraudulent mainstream media efforts and bogus, psecularatti positing anarchist or dynastic chamchagiri, the message of Modi and Swamy have reached and touched every Indian. This delivery process is no mean achievement. It is just stunning for the simple reason that the message was delivered with honesty and nationalist fervor.
What stands out in the entire messaging process is that India has demonstrated a national identity beyond the fissiparous and divisive agendas of motivated rascals.
The disinformation campaigns were rendered to be hoaxes because they were delivered with such dishonesty reminiscent of only of the scams galore that characterised the SoniaG and Congi regime of over 60 years.
Cleansing the body polity is a challenge that can be safely entrusted to the team led by Narendra Modi and Subramanian Swamy. People trust them and will back them up.
Be ruthless in bringing to book the habitual offenders and in particular, those who have subverted and decimated the constitutional institutions of the country.
Be compassionate in reaching out to every single citizen in everyone of the 6.5 lakh villages of the nation.
Start with determination and single-minded purpose with national schemes such as the National Water Grid and international initiatives such as the formation of Indian Ocean Community (Hindu mahasagar parivaar). Just these two initiatives will launch India and the other 50 neighbouring states of India along the Indian Ocean Rim into a path of economic multiplier effect heralding Trans-Asian Highway and Railway projects and harnessing the waters of the great rivers flowing from the greatest water reservoir of the world, the Himalayas. Start the initiative to ensure sustainable waterflows along Mekong, Irawadi, Salween, Brahmaputra, Ganga, Sutlej and manage the project to reach out the waters to every farm, to every household with clean tap water. The National Water Grid for India alone has the potential to create an additional 9 crores of wet land which can be distributed to 9 crore landless families. With assured irrigation, these new lands under new ownership can launch an agrarian revolution of the kind that the world has never seen. The national water grid revolution has the potential to mitigate world hunger by doubling India's agricultural production within the next 5 years.
India has a role in the comity of nations exemplified by what the French epigraphist George Coedes called Hinduised States of Southeast Asia as the title of his monumental work pointing to the role played by India's cultural ambassadors to convey the message of Dharma and Dhamma in organizing peoples' lives in harmonious societies. The greatest Vishnu mandiram of the world, Angkor-Wat should become the epistle of this global effort by starting daily pujas in the temple and involving every citizen of the Indian Ocean Community in a cooperative effort to build United States of Indian Ocean States. as a balance to the splendid initiative which resulted in the European Community.
Some questions are posed as a prelude to the work of Aurobindo called India's rebirth:
What makes India a country unlike any other?
What power can bring about her rebirth?
Today, with the worldwide churning of blood and mud about to smother us, our answer to these questions will decide India's destiny.
India has a destined role in world polity for the simple reason that today India accounts for over 1.25 billion people with a civilizational heritage which has been a beacon of hope and renaissance for many people all around the globe. It is consistent with the ethos of the nation that India has chosen a democratic path involving every single citizen in the life-efforts to realize everyone's true potential.
India's destined role can be realized with dignity and compassion, with determination and a resolve to take the entire continent of Asia forward in tune with the march of the continent in a majestic walk of continental drift moving the Indian subcontinent at the rate of about 6 cms. every year jutting into the European continent and lifting up the Himalayas about 1 cm. every year increasing the accumulated snow and ice. This march has the potential to overcome even the ravages of the Krakatoa super-eruption to provide for a humanised process of building up the comity of nations into a Rastram, a lighted path for social welfare and sustainable environment.
Indian leadership cannot shirk this global responsibility.
A state is but a symbolic form of peoples' efforts at setting up cooperative institutions. The larger canvas is the Rastram, an adhyatmic idea of living in harmony with the environment respecting human dignity and human aspirations with due care to ensure that the world is left a better place to live in for the present and future generations in an equitable world order which existed as of 1CE (See histogram of Angus Maddison).
This inexorable journey is a pilgrimage. Modi and Swamy are merely the facilitators, the companions guiding the caravans, in a pilgrims' progress from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas -- aasetu himachalam as the logo of Survey of India says.
S. Kalyanaraman
Sarasvati Research Center
May 11, 2014