'INDIA: A WEAKENING CIVILISATION' BY FRANCOIS GAUTIER

India: A weakening civilisation

By Francois Gautier
Rediff
July 28, 2008

Since time immemorial smaller nations without a strong
soul, or which are on the decline, have copied -- and often
blindly aped -- the strong prevailing civilisations of that
moment. In that manner, when Rome was at its peak satellite
nations copied the Roman style of democracy, clothes, food,
mannerisms... And so it was for Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia
when they dominated, or even for ancient India whose
dances, temples, customs, martial arts, were replicated all
the way to China on one side and down to Greece on the
other (many Greek gods are derived from Hindu deities).

One cannot call today's India a declining civilisation,
although it has suffered tremendously from invasions in the
last 1,500 years. Indeed, India is one of the few
civilisations today which has managed -- albeit in a
diluted manner -- to retain intact much of her culture and
spirituality from the Vedic ages. If you look at
civilisations like Greece, Egypt or Italy [Images]

http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=italy

(erstwhile Rome) today, not much has come down from their
times of domination and greatness -- whereas in India the
knowledge of karm, of yog, of the avatars and the hidden
realities behind life are still there in teachers, gurus,
ashrams, individuals, for us to learn from.

Why is it, then, that at the moment India seems to be
paralysed into inaction in the face of an all-out war
against Indian liberties and values by Islamic terrorists?
Why is it that Indians are aping so much the Western type
of democracy without caring to adapt it to the Indian
psyche and conditions, that anybody can twist the system,
cheat and win in the end? Why is it that it appears at this
very moment that there never has been so much corruption,
debasement and selfishness in Indian politics?

Why it that the Indian government appears hell-bent to
impose upon the nation a nuclear deal,

http://www.rediff.com/news/nukedeal05.html

which will neutralise India's weapons of nuclear deterrence
in the face of China's and Pakistan's aggressive nuclear
weaponisation and castrate India's independence in foreign
policy, as well as bring with it immense Westernisation,
not to mention a strong influx of Christian missionaries?
Why is it that sections of Indian journalism seem to have
touched a new low just to get more ratings?

Look how the United Progressive Alliance won the vote of
confidence in Parliament, with the connivance of the press
and Indian politicians, and the ways and means which were
used to secure that vote.

Special: How the trust vote was won

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/26sheela.htm

Look at the role of Speaker Somnath Chatterjee [Images]?

http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=somnath%20chatterjee

Should he not have satisfied himself

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/26upavote1.htm

about the veracity of allegations of bribery before
undertaking further proceedings in Parliament? If votes
were procured in a brazen manner, affecting a crucial
outcome for the nation, should he not have deferred the
trust vote?

Posterity will also judge him on the history museum he
built in Parliament annex at a cost of Rs 100 crore from
the taxpayer's money and which shows Indian history
starting with Ashoka, continuing with Akbar, and more or
less jumping to Subhas Chandra Bose and Nehru, without any
mention of the great Hindu political and spiritual leaders
from Kalidasa to Sri Aurobindo, from the great Sri
Krishnadeva Raya, the last king of the last great Hindu
empire of Vijayanagar, to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a true
nationalist. So much for the Communists' view of Indian
history.

Look at the silence of the business community on the ethics
of what has just happened in the last two weeks. One can
understand the silence of an Anil Ambani who stands to
benefit from the Amar Singh-UPA entente. But what about
others like Ratan Tata, the Jindals, Hindujas, Birlas, who
may be swayed by the prospect of doing big business with
the Americans, or by the possibility of the government
going in for last-minute liberalisation after it got rid of
the Communists' hurdle?

Do any of these tycoons first think Indian and not of
profit for themselves? Do they think for a minute of the
price, or shall we say in a more Indian manner the karmic
price that India, their country, will have to pay sooner or
later for the manner in which the nuclear deal has been won
and the low depths to which Indian politics and ethics have
sunk to in the process?

Look at the inertia of the government and the press after
the Bangalore blasts

http://www.rediff.com/news/bengalurublast08.html

and then the horrible Ahmedabad blasts.

http://www.rediff.com/news/ahmedabad08.html

Does the UPA think the common citizen of India is a nitwit
and that he does not understand that on one hand, if the
Government of India keeps pointing fingers at Pakistan's
Inter Services Intelligence,

http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/20blasts3.htm

or at some Bangladesh outfit, it is to deflect the fact
that most of the recent terror attacks have been
perpetrated by Indian Muslims, with or without Pakistani or
Bangladeshi (or Al Qaeda [Images])

http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=al%20qaeda

help?

It is not only a matter of vote banks in times of coming
elections, but also a fact that politicians in India want
to keep a blindfold on their citizens and pretend that
nothing is happening. Does not the government, on the other
hand, understand that we have all become cynical to its
usual conduct on these occasions when it: a. condemns 'in
the strongest terms' this 'barbarous act'; b. appeals for
calm and 'communal harmony'; c. gives a few lakhs each to
the families of the deceased or injured, so that they shut
up; and d. never catches the culprits and goes on as before
till the next terrorist act.

But look at America, the most hated and targeted country in
the world: it has not suffered a single terrorist attack
since September 11, 2001.

http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/sep/11ny.htm

Which Indian politician will have the courage to call a
spade a spade and tackle terrorism with courage and
determination?

Is it not time that India reminds itself that it is still a
great civilisation with a composite society that has always
accepted diversity? That it has entered another period of
Renaissance and that it needs to think Indian, to protect
its borders, its women and children, to retain, in the true
Spirit of the Bhagavad Gita, the will to fight, physically
if necessary, for the preservation of dharma and knowledge?

Yes, India can borrow what is good from the West in terms
of technological advancement and ecological conservation,
but it should not discard all the great things that come
down from ancient India and make this country so unique, so
wonderful.

Francois Gautier

http://www.rediff.com/news/franc.html

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