India at the Brink: Power, Division, and the Fight for the Nation’s Soul

 

India at the Brink: Power, Division, and the Fight for the Nation’s Soul

Hindi Version: https://rakeshinsightfulgaze.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog-post_14.html

India stands on a knife’s edge not because of foreign threats, but because the system meant to serve the people has turned against them. What we are witnessing today is not just inequality. It is the organized betrayal of the majority by a privileged few, aided by a government that no longer pretends to act in public interest.

A powerful bloc of India’s elite, closely tied to the Gujarat lobby, has handed the reins of the nation to the most hardline wing of the BJP, ideologically powered by the RSS. This alliance has given rise to a regime obsessed with control: of politics, media, religion, wealth, and truth.

Wealth has been extracted from the people and delivered to corporations via tailor-made laws, deregulation, and privatization. Public assets are built with public money, but the profits flow into private hands through toll roads, service fees, and privatized utilities. The result? Citizens are being taxed without representation, and India is slowly being turned into a corporate-owned state.

But the real danger isn’t just in the economics. It’s in the message: "You don’t matter. Your life doesn’t count."

That’s the message Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and backward caste citizens are hearing every day and not in theory, but in practice. The evidence is everywhere:

• Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD scholar, driven to suicide after relentless institutional harassment his suicide note a powerful indictment of caste apartheid in modern India.
• An IPS officer found dead, his family crying foul, as pressure from higher-ups silenced investigations.
• A young IIT graduate in Kerala, who died by suicide, citing systemic discrimination.
• A Dalit man in Bareilly, lynched over rumors and left to die, his murderers walking free.
• A BJP leader in Madhya Pradesh caught urinating on an Adivasi man a moment of pure, shameless dehumanization captured on video.
• The list goes on: farmers crushed by state trucks in Lakhimpur, minorities denied housing, Muslims assaulted for eating meat, tribals displaced for mining, women raped in the name of honor.

These aren’t isolated incidents. They are symptoms of a system that rewards cruelty and protects the powerful.

And yet, the government distracts with 5 kg of food, or a one-time deposit before elections, as if the people are too hungry to see what’s happening. But the public does see. And they are growing angrier by the day.

They see a government building shiny airports while public hospitals collapse. They see roads with tolls that never end. They see national debt quadrupling under BJP rule not for their benefit, but for superficial optics of growth and private profits.

They also see the betrayal from within. Leaders like Mayawati, Nitish Kumar, Manjhi, and Paswan, once symbols of social justice, now mute spectators more concerned with survival than with service.

And they see the rise of state-sponsored godmen, peddling blind faith and political obedience, while India’s true religious voices the Shankaracharyas are ignored for refusing to play along.

The narrative is controlled, the institutions are compromised, and the media is a megaphone of the regime. But no amount of narrative control can hide this truth: the system is failing its people and the people are losing patience.

We are told a civil conflict can’t happen in India. That’s a lie. India has already seen it in the Khalistan movement, the Naxalite uprisings, the Delhi riots of 1984, Gujarat 2002, Muzaffarnagar 2013, and Northeast Delhi 2020. Civil unrest doesn’t arrive all at once. It boils slowly until it doesn’t.

When Rahul Gandhi speaks of Gen-Z, he’s warning us: a generation is watching its future being stolen in real time. They are educated, connected, and disillusioned and soon they will not settle for tokenism. They will demand what is rightfully theirs: opportunity, dignity, and justice.

This is no longer about Left vs. Right. It’s about whether we want to live in a democracy or a corporate-run caste state, where power is inherited, and suffering is outsourced.

The BJP says its policies are good for all. Then prove it not through slogans or statues, but through lives improved, dignity restored, and justice delivered.

Because this isn't just misrule. This is daylight robbery of public wealth, of civil rights, and of the future itself.

And if the people are left with no voice, no platform, and no justice they will find other ways to be heard. History makes that clear.

India is not running out of time.

India is being robbed of time.