The Lion Barks

We see this national insignia on pretty much every official Government tender, notes, coins, and communications; it was borrowed from the great lineage of the Mauryan Empire of which Ashoka was a great King who converted his empire into following Buddhists ideas and dictums. History argues that he was inspired by the great tragedy of war, like Gautama Buddha and got converted to Buddhism and got his cities and capitals covered with his insignias of Dharma, Lions, and Chakras for reasons unknown to historians.

History has passed and it’s time for an overview of the present. The nation is drenched in the marks of the Mauryan Empire and yet it never roars? I feel the lion barks as signages and laws in the nation of which both the officials, the concerned, and the general public participates in its barking. The Lion squeaks like a rat in traffic corridors (outside our homes) and roads sometimes showing a rat’s ass and swollen belly for a bribe in the odd streets of central India which has become a norm and an unwritten law. The roads are just petty excuses of the Lion with territories claimed unplanned and constructed foolishly for the anti-development of the nation. Our currency just has the power of a few fading Indian brands in the market where our masters force domestic brands to compete with MNC’s where the crowd with International likes remain with the foreigners and our brands are again stuck with the common man accruing losses by poor choices in buying trends of the domestic consumer where the only relief is a population explosion of the gutters. There seem to be a million voices of netas on national television for the advocating for the need of votes for themselves and their parties thereby white washing the population explosion of the gutters and slums in the nation.

The democracy called India is right now barking quoting Hindu scriptures which they believe would satiate the hunger of a nation and build nationalism and patriotism in its name under the true banner of false development propaganda. People are shown Ram’s image and not even a poor half-naked fakir is delivered and with spitting gold as big canonical dictums of the Vedas the ruling party is shaming the Lion sinking into lower bottoms of national politics and making the nation a big joke internationally. Is the system producing fools who believe in the system in the first place? Or is India as we all imagine as is a great nation par-excellence and we have covered the distance to the moon in pride and luxury or is it still the edge of the rocket in cycles and rickshaws? As Indians who bleed blue for sports and science are we shown the right path by the Lion who barks?