Heights of Hypocrisy!

I love my country but I can’t remain silent towards the high level of political drama going on. The happenings and the turn of events is such that I feel sorry and disheartened. Everything and everyone is judged on parameters that no one knows. We make extraordinary claims but in reality we are no different. And this apparently is not only true for our political system but also for our social system.

Our sanctimonious political system claims that our minds are getting corrupted by the ‘western ideas and ideals’. It says that we are getting ‘influenced’ by the glimmer of the life there. It says that our own ideals are the highest and therefore most accurate. But is it really true? Or are we simply living in an alternate reality where we discard everything that opposes our own beliefs?

The instances to cite this hypocritical side our society are plenty.

To begin with, we talk of freedom and personal liberty. We claim that that everyone has equal rights and gets to decide what they want and what they don’t but in reality this concept is as vague as the meaning of truth.

Recently, our honorable Supreme Court flatly refused to directly block any pornographic websites on the grounds that it’s a violation of Article 21 (personal freedom). SC agreed that some steps need to be taken but those may not necessarily involve blocking these sites.

Alternate scenario: Supreme Court on Dec 11, 2013 gave a verdict that criminalized homosexuality in India on the grounds that it is ‘against the order of nature’.

My question here is that who gets to decide what is against the ‘order of nature’ and what’s not? As far as I know, nature is full of anomalies and to say that we are even close to understanding it is vanity.

Where did this concept of ‘personal freedom’ go when it came to giving verdict about choosing partners? Porn is personal freedom and partner is not? When will our system and society stand against these dual standards?

The second instance that I would like to cite here is the case of Maggi Vs. Tobacco products.

Our food regulatory authority banned Maggi on the grounds that it has excess lead content and MSG in it, which indeed is harmful for health. Good to see that our authorities are so concerned about our health that they basically banned noodles from all brands in most parts of the country.

Alternate scenario: If these authorities are so concerned about our health, why don’t they start banning tobacco products and alcohol based beverages? Or are they saying that by printing a “statuary warning” on the product label their job is done?

If that is the case, then I would request Nestlé to print lead levels and MSG content on the wrapper of Maggi noodles and end this fiasco for good. I guess that should work for FSSAI as well. It sure does in case of cigarettes.

Also, for those who say that ‘Maggi is toxic’, honestly after eating Maggi for so many years do you really have any actual complaints to file? People do actual drugs and practically drown themselves in natural and artificial narcotics and surprisingly that never raised any questions? Marijuana, Weed, etc.

And why do you think that a multi-million dollar international brand that has been given a green signal by at least seven countries sitting quietly?

What no one is noticing is that this may just as easily be a political ploy to drive out ‘western brands’ and promote Indianization aka the RSS agenda.

First Maggi, then baby power and finally milk powder, too big and synchronized to be a coincidence. Similarly, Maggi, Knorr, Top Ramen and finally Yuppiee, the timing is too impeccable to ignore.

Had they been a Ramdev product or Asaram manufacturing or perhaps even had blessings of RSS or any other political party, any of the banned products would have never met this fate.

I strongly protest against having such dual standards in our governing system and our society. Hope that we soon wake up to see the truth, whatever it might be!