New India or New Conundrums - Redefining the Vision of Reconstruction?

“Good governance never depends upon the laws but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.” - Frank Herbert 

For many Indians who take pride in their constitution and the recognition of their country as the world’s largest democracy, a sense of grieving devitalisation is setting in. Yesterday, as the nation commemorated the 72nd Republic Day, it also marked the day when the country had put into force, the laws that make the people of India, sovereign. Sadly, the laws that were originally laid down in the constitution to make the people of India autonomous are not so much in their original form anymore and neither is the vision with which the crusade for the advent of a republic had originally begun, years ago. 

The conflict is not with the legitimate role of the administration but with the unlimited role of the authorities; the essence of which has been driving the state through the boulevard of corruption for a long time now. 

But as the saying goes, "there are two sides to a coin," the same is with the modifications that have been brought to the country. From the liberalization of India’s foreign direct investment policies, allowing more foreign investment in several enterprises, including defence and the railways to the new foreign policies that have been introduced for improving economic ties, security, and regional relations; a lot of prominent reforms have been initiated by the very same government to improve the economy as well. 

Even the New India Movement that was initiated in 2017 which envisaged an India free from poverty, corruption, terrorism, communalism, casteism, uncleanliness and to unite the entire country by adopting good governance and utilizing technology, certainly observed a quarrelling stature because of the nationwide catastrophe and the consequential economic crunch and not entirely due to the ceasing efforts of the council. 

Hence, it only seems right to assert that if the blind following of an agenda and its preachers is incorrect, then so is the blatant uproar of unacceptance.

Yet the unanswered question stands at whether this Republic Day we commemorate the consternated vision of a ‘New India’ that is still strong, prosperous, and all-encompassing; an India that will make the freedom fighters proud? Or an India that is steering through incognizance by the political puppets at the forefront of the nation?

The verdict is unspecified as it resides in the uncertain future. Yes, India is a long way from what it anticipated ‘New India-2022’ would look like because of impediments in the modus operandi but why shall that refrain its civilians to stand up and support each other? Alone we can do so little but together we can do so much more. So celebrate the country’s freedom with patriotism and join the excursion of making India a better place on Earth, rather than calling out the system trivially.