Why is our nation so angry?

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: or the general increase in violence, in some strange way, the India of Gandhi is now the moniker of violence and epitomising the worst in society: and we are seeing it in all facets of our daily life.

There are more and more cases of road rage; in a society that is supposed to be evolved, there are no qualms about either reading or relating to cases of honour killings; no longer do we react to the maniacal violence of farmers or policemen; it is today par for the course. Which means two things: violence has now become part of us and in some strange way, we have internalised hatred and nothing can damage the edifice of a society more than when it adopts hatred as one of its sources of sustenance! The second thing that seems to have happened is we have now numbed ourselves to such chilling reflections of who we are as a people! We have slowly been de-sensitised and this is partly because of the streak of sensationalism that the Indian media indulges in with wanton disregard for the influence it may wield over young and impressionable minds: so while the I&B Ministry worries every time a skirt flies a wee bit higher on television, we are fine with grisly images of blood and death on our television sets!

I believe the time has come for introspection and I really don’t know where we must begin? Do we need to curb materialism? I don’t think that is going to change or reduce. What may change is if we can create an alternate inspirational model. If we can share stories of these heroes who remain unsung because they are not captured on television cameras. It is these stories that need to be told. Much in the same way as the story of Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma was played out some weeks ago, India has lost its set of inspirational heroes and too many of our current heroes have feet of clay: that needs to change. Only if we wish to harness this hyped up demographic dividend for good!