Media Ruckus- Sakshi Maharaj
The
English TV in India is mostly made of people of insignificant calibre yet such
people are in top slot due to familial political connection or proximity to
power. If you read people like Sagarika Ghosh and her father’s work
description, it will serve as a good example. There have been trickily told
stories of Vikram Chandra that state that the job was a quid pro quo for
services rendered by his father. I am just giving examples but this piece is
about the whole tribe.
The
flip side of the tragedy is, these are people who are incapable of handling
nuanced topics. They do not have the intelligence to analyse, open mindedness
to consider differing views, are too insecure to concede that others could be
right, ride on political ideology in the absence of own faculty to discern what
is right and what is wrong, lead parasitical lives thriving on the verbal waste
of the cantankerous, cater to the basest instincts of humans, crass, classless,
free of ethics, have no basic training in reasoning, loud, brash and unfit to
be employed in any productive domains. On the moral front, while the media
makes no money, the peddlers are rolling in moolah, the reason, it is alleged
is, blackmailing.
Most
of the reporting use incendiary template, concluding what Sakshi Maharaj told
was inherently wrong. The reports remain superficial without going into the
merits of the statement. The Media is not for reporting, analysing news,
providing clarity; it is for expressing ‘outrage’ within a political
ideological paradigms.
The
narrative is, India is overpopulated and hence the statement of Sakshi Maharaj
is politically incorrect, hence an ‘outrage’. However, none is ready to debate
the current factors contributing to burgeoning population from demographic perspective.
I
for one stand for Sakshi Maharaj on two counts, first being Freedom of
Expression. I wrote in April 2014 in support of Freedom of expression here. http://notcovered.blogspot.in/2014/04/dr-frazer-gets-his-right-to-free-speech.html
Price for my right to Freedom
of expression is my responsibility not to be offended. Instead, respond to it in an
intelligent and civil way- responses unknown to Indian Media. The
fountainhead of their trade is ‘Freedom of Expression’ but they are the ones
who are abuse it, at times by stifling it.
My
second reason for standing with Sakshi Maharaj is, there is truth in his
statement. The demography of India is a critical factor in maintaining national
integrity. It is the demographic weight that broke India into two in 1947. We
did not separate along political lines but along religious one. It can recur if the demography changes once again and such a change will be to the
disadvantage of Hindus. So Hindus have an interest in maintaining the integrity
of the country by maintaining demographic majority. Any dilution of this stand
is hogwash.
On
another note, Sakshi Maharaj is not forcing anyone to procreate. So why this
outrage unless it is for TRP?
Let
us look at the one child policy being pursued by most Hindus. A one child
Husband marrying one child wife, produce one child. Four Grandparents, become
two parents in first generation that becomes one child in third. In about 40-55
years (approximately) the count comes down to fourth of what it was.
In
comparison, four grandparents beget, say 6 children (each getting 3) and these
3 pairs get three each. 4 grandparents, 6 children and 9 grandchildren in 40-55
years. The size of first family is 7 whereas the latter 19. It takes about 50
years to bring about a change such as this.
Native and Muslim birth rate of Europe |
You
imagine who is going to run Europe in 50 years from now.
Here
is a scenario for India, a very rudimentary to give an idea. I am sure there
are other reliable sources but this is a rough view. Just numbers. In two generation the 80% becomes 50%
Rough extrapolation - Modest assumption |
If
you add the impact of proselytizing, the balance is in favour of non-Hindus just
two generations away.
The lesson
Bosnian demographic shift teaches cannot be ignored, just because it is
unpalatable or politically incorrect. Any shift in demography will be
accompanied by other social upheavals. It could be, in the European context,
one that does not have any qualms for wholesale murder, culling, as Mark Style
calls it; in Indian context, the Kashmiri Pandit problem in the state of Jammu
and Kashmir and consequent obliteration of Hindus in India.
Bosnian Solution in Mark's words |
The
birth rate of anything lower than 2.11 means the suicide of society. No society
with birth rate lower than 1.9 has not revived. So let us not slight away the
number of children a woman produces to be a mere personal issue. It impacts the
society also in a way and if a society makes child bearing too expensive for
women, it is digging its own grave.
The
liberal ideology that destroyed family as a social unit, equated a life without
responsibility to freedom, termed anything that is traditional bad, gave birth
to cultural orphans in own society is the culprit for the woes of dwindling
population and decaying value system.
The
Government has been telling that one child family is a desirable one and two
children family as limit. It will work, if all demographic groups follow the
norm. The one that flouts this advice stands to gain in the long run. Demography
trumps democracy. Kashmir, Kerala, Bengal all show that people vote along
religious lines, which was fine with the liberals until Hindus also did the
same.
Let
us not fall victims to the ‘outrage’ media but look at the problem with a cool
head. Do we want to leave our children a political system run by Sharia as
jurisprudence? Do we want to throw away the rich cultural wealth of Hindu past
and let Abrahamic religions dictate values? Those parents who think they are
securing their child’s future by having a single child are actually doing the
opposite.
With
demography comes political power and with political power the economic power.
It is one thing to dream of a Utopia but reality is we grapple with a world
that operates mostly on Game Theory principle. If Hindus concede majority in
India, there is no place to run to. Not for those who are reading this but to
their progeny.
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