India: A Wounded Ego
The above video clip shows a group of villagers attacking an electric transformer because a cow was electrocuted. The incident took place in Madhya Pradesh. The cow is a holy creature in present India . So the death of one of them may have disastrous consequences. In this case, there were other reasons too. The villagers were frustrated by longstanding infrastructure negligence and previous unaddressed complaints about the hazardous wiring. Seeing the video, a friend of mine raised a question: “How to decipher this national anomaly?” My instant response was that the masses have no brain. As Ayn Rand said, there is nothing called a group brain. The mob is a leviathan driven by instincts and impulses. Right now, the Indian right-wing is moved by one instinct only: hatred of the Other. And it has all the blessings of the ruling dispensation. India: A Wounded Ego From Muhammad bin Qasim to Aurangzeb, the Muslim dynasties ruled over India for about 700 years. The British contr...
