A Century of Leftist Child Abuse Births a CJP

Chapter 1: The Boatman of Benares

I WILL NEVER FORGET that kindly boatman of Benares in his mid-60s. I was half his age. He looked slightly emaciated due to age but his strength came from a lifetime of muscle memory and casual expertise and not merely his physicality. Our conversation turned to family matters and I candidly asked him how long he would continue his Kula-Vrutti. 

“Till my body gives up.” 

“Doesn’t your son help you?” 

“Sometimes. When he’s in town.” 

“Where is he?” 

“Delhi. Studying B.A. Wants to become an IAS or some sarkaari officer.”

“Nice to hear that. But college is closed now for summer vacation. Hasn’t he come home?” 

“Yes. He was here till three days ago. Now he has gone back.” 

“Why?”

“To participate in some andolan against the government.” 

“You think that’s a good thing?” 

“You mean destroying other people’s property and behaving like a roadside gundaa? How can that be good?” 

“Well, all that is happening for getting justice, equality and other things. I’m sure you’ve read it in the newspapers.” 

“I don’t know how to think like that.” 

“Please don’t mistake me for saying this. But who will continue your profession after you?” 

He stopped rowing for a few moments. His dejection was evident on his face. Then he said:

“I don’t know. There are some young men in our biraadari. Maybe one of them will take over.” 

“So your son clearly doesn’t like your Kula-Vrutti.” 

“He thinks it is degrading. I’ve told him countless times all these years: Ganga Maiyya ki seva karne ke badle yeh andolan, yeh sab kyon kar rahe ho? Is doing andolans a part of your studies? How does doing all that get you an IAS post? But beta, today’s children listen only to strangers.” 

That interaction is the briefest and the most accurate commentary on the so-called NEET protests that rocked the nation. 

Chapter 2:  Mass Agitations as an Inherent Evil 

ON APRIL 25, 1938, police opened fire against a group of peaceful citizens who were hoisting the national flag at Vidurashwattha near Bangalore. Ten people died on the spot and dozens were grieviously wounded. 

The incident generated national outrage and Vidurashwattha eventually became known as the Jallianwala Bagh of the South. 

But the aftermath of the tragedy serves as a lasting case study. Ever on the lookout for an opportunity to warm his goat milk, Mohandas Gandhi fished in the embers of the Vidurashwattha fire and issued a Fatwa to Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV: this tragedy is proof of the collapse of law and order in the Mysore Princely State. Therefore, I demand that you step down with immediate effect. The Congress will launch statewide agitations till you agree to abdicate your throne. 

Sounds familiar to the CJP’s bullying? 

The Modi government unfortunately succumbed and gave up Dharmendra Pradhan. But the Maharaja had gently asked Gandhi to mind his own business. However, this wasn’t the first or the last time that Gandhi had used such bullying tactics — in fact, bullying and blackmail were the pillars of his politics. In the widest possible sense, it can be argued that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the pitamaha of the CJP and its predecessors. In polite terms, this brand of politics is known as agitational politics and he was its acknowledged Master in India because he was the earliest bird that had caught the worm. 

And he had imported it from Europe, where it had worked beautifully for at least two centuries. It had caused the French Revolution and had toppled governments throughout Europe. Gandhi had no doubt that with a few tweaks, it would work in India as well. But history unambiguously shows that — barring the Salt March — every mass agitation that Gandhi led was not only a failure but proved disastrous to others: especially his followers. 

Mass agitations and revolutions succeeded in Europe for a fundamental reason: its citizens innately distrust the government. This distrust is the root of a popular but unhygienic slogan: all governments are fundamentally bad. But plain commonsense tells us that all governments need not be bad. 

Bharatavarsha’s lived experience shows the exact opposite: our political system functioned not merely on trust but goodwill and affection. When was the last time you read the word affection used in political literature? As I’ve written on numerous occasions, the king was anxious to be known as a Praja-Vatsala; this is what the British meant when they observed that the “king lives in awe and dread of his citizens.” 

Since time immemorial, order and stability had been the hallmarks of our political life. This is the only reason why our people generally tolerated that rare tyrant. The classic story of Maharaja Vena is singularly illustrative. Unable to bear his excesses, Vena’s citizens revolted and deposed him — and instantly regretted their haste when they discovered that the country quickly sunk into anarchy. And so, they restored him to power. We notice the same phenomenon at work in Pallava Nandivarman II who was nominated by a council of ministers and citizen bodies to fill the vacuum on the throne left by the untimely death of Parameshvaravarman II. 

This was the time-honoured Indian tradition. 

Political power is not an equilibrium because human nature is not equanimous. In DVG’s memorable phrasing, “politics is the continuous process of plucking out weeds.” Indeed, the process of extracting ghee begins by preventing the overflow of boiling milk. 

In the political realm, public grievance, political corruption, discrimination and injustice need to be addressed through mutual goodwill and not through force on the Government’s part and street-level violence on the people’s part. 

There are ample historical proofs that show this as well. We have the renowned incident where Maharaja Lalitaditya personally visited a recalcitrant cobbler and persuaded him to part with his land, which was then used for public welfare. 

Then we have Dharampal’s eye-opening work, Civil Disobedience in the Indian Tradition which is a firsthand source to understand how Indians protested against Government highhandedness. It shows an evocative picture of an Indian society which in 1810 didn’t indulge in violence, arson and destruction of public property but quietly refused to work. The outcome was the British withdrawal of a proposed house-tax set to be levied on the citizens of Benares, Bhagalpur and Patna. The fount of this protest was spiritual, not ideological and political. 

Chapter 3: The Golden Age of Leftist Agitations

WHAT UNFOLDED before our eyes over the last week was not protest but a slow and sustained march towards full-blown anarchy. And its instigators make no bones about it. In fact, even as I write this, they continue to brandish the threat of a repeat performance. 

A Yogendra Yadav declares that anarchy and not elections will decide who comes to power the next time. In a parallel track, his Louis Vuitton version, Pratap Banu Mehta declares the same thing in soul-torturing mounds of prose.

It is not coincidental that every “protest” since 2014 has always occurred in the national capital and in the vicinity of the seats of Government. The most dangerous of them all was the Red Fort shocker. Indeed, the build-up to and the ultimate overthrow of the Tsarist regime and Chiang Kai-shek’s government occurred exactly in this fashion. Frequent eruptions of low-intensity assaults unleashed on the streets followed by a final overthrow — the classic predatory tactics of hyenas which hunt in packs. 

Which transports us to the agitational history of India. 

Mohandas Gandhi wasn’t alone in importing European-style mass agitation into India. The Communists imported a more lethal version of it. While it yielded rather poor results in the short run, its greatest and most enduring success was its termite-like capture of the Congress party and through it, the capture of almost all public institutions. It isn’t accidental that today, Rahul Gandhi has become a street-level agitator — a senior version of lumpen like Abhijeet Dipke. To gauge how fleeting public memory is, the same Rahul Gandhi in 2013, tore up the Prime Minister’s ordinance in public. 

The external facet of the Communist internal capture of the Congress was the sustained outbreaks of agitations — bandhs, hartals, lockouts, loot, all of which had vandalism and violence built into them. Almost every agitation culminated in concession — partially or fully — by the then Congress governments. 

The four decades from the 1950s up to liberalisation was truly the Golden Age of Leftist agitation. We now have more than two generations of adults who are completely clueless about how Leftist agitations were a way of life for Indians of that period. These agitations also had the tacit support of the Left-leaning ministers and legislators within the Congress. 

I’m reminded of the notorious Expo-70 violence that had burned Bangalore in 1970. What began as a protest against the discriminatory selection of students snowballed into full-blown street riots led both by Leftist student unions and the NSUI in its former avatara. Several vandals who participated in that mob violence eventually became ministers in successive Karnataka governments. The same thing holds true for other states as well.

It is quite unfortunate that the BJP in its current form seems to have forgotten that it had fought its most pitched and prolonged battles against the Left more than the Congress. 

Chapter 4: A Brief History of Leftist Child Abuse

THIS LEADS US to the most important area of Leftist ideology and politics. Nobody has mastered the dark art of capturing education by capturing institutions as the Left has — globally. For what it is worth, the ABVP might be dominant on campuses but it’s simply no match for the long-term vision of the Left — power for its own sake, power as an end in itself. There is a reason the Communists demanded and got the JNU and not ministerial berths from Indira Gandhi. They know that children are gifts that keep on giving. 

Indeed, generational warfare has always been a solid foundation stone of the Leftist ideology. If you rig the whole educational system itself — from KG to PhD — the kid who goes to school and emerges as a graduate will be exposed to no alternative view.  Worse still, he will be taught not to engage with but to dismiss any alternative view he encounters. This is similar to a Madrassa “graduate.”  Except that the Leftist Madrassa product looks like you and me, which only makes him more lethal. A regular Madrassa graduate has his heroes already cut out: topmost is a 7^th Century Prophet that no one has seen; he is followed by a long succession of bigots and mass-murderers beginning from Muhmmad bin Qasim; then he has his neighbourhood Mullahs and Maulvis. On the other hand, a Leftist Madrassa product’s heroes include nation-wreckers like Romila Thapar, Ram Guha, T.M. Krishna, Prakash Raj, Kanhaiya Kumar and now, Abhijeet Dipke.

With little exaggeration, it is clear that the Left has transformed education into a nursery of child abuse for more than half a century.  As I never tire of saying, the Indian education system is a national ordnance factory for producing traitors. Even a casual Google search reveals a verifiable truth: there is a teacher behind every nation-breaking agitation. 

Unlike the anti-CAA or the farmers’ agitation, the so-called NEET agitation has claimed the seat of India’s Education Minister himself for precisely this reason — the Left still dictates what is actually taught. And those who teach are the generational spawn of the same educational system that the Left usurped and monopolised. 

And education is still the BJP’s naked vulnerability. This time around, it got stumped not by an equal political adversary but by a bunch of revolution-hungry kids. The sight of senior BJP leaders inviting the CJP lumpen for a “negotiation,” reminds me of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya’s lament over the Congress’ surrender to the Muslim League:

A wholly communal organization like the Muslim League has attained parity with a nationalist organization like the Indian National Congress Party. 

When the National Law School prescribes articles published on Alt News, The Wire, The News Minute and other breaking-India outlets, why is nobody bothered? Why is Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq made required reading for understanding legal nuances? Such examples abound. 

At another level, it is truly incredible how almost a hundred percent of middle class parents do no due diligence before sending kids to school and college. Their due diligence ends at an institution’s “reputation,” “facilities,” and even “glamour”; even worse is their concern about whether the school adequately pampers Daddy’s Little Princess or Mamma’s Precious Pie. Almost no parent actually looks at the curriculum. 

Small wonder that the Leftist child abuse continues to persist; it has simply changed disguises and tactics over time. This time around, it has rebounced with far more sinister power and is operating with extraordinary sophistication. 

Chapter 5: The Leftist Nuclear Bomb    

THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT NEET or paper leaks or corruption. A CJP or an Abhijeet Dipke don’t just materialise overnight out of thin air. Just as how a Kanhaiya Kumar, Hardik Patel or Jignesh Mevani didn’t. All are pawns of the same ecosystem and they know they are pawns and allow themselves to be willingly used. 

The more things change, the more they remain the same. These specimens are the sixth-generation descendants of say, an M.N. Roy, Jyoti Basu, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, S.A. Dange, P.C. Joshi, Dulal Guha, Aruna Asaf Ali, K.D. Malaviya, Romesh Chandra, Romesh Thapar, Russi Karanjia, U.R. Anantamurthy, K.P.S. Menon, Sajjad Zaheer… all of them Communists on the payroll of Soviet Russia. Or, as the Mitrokhin Archives wrote, “the whole country was up for sale.”

Why is it so easy to create and then unleash these traitors at such frequency? The answer points to two sides of the same coin. 

After nearly eight decades of independence, our greatest struggle seems to be to remain independent. For the longest time, our political and intellectual discourse comprised variants of this premise: India is an unlikely nation. In textbooks, this translated into the spurious Aryan Invasion Theory and why the multiplicity of “castes” and languages makes it impossible for Indians to live with one another. Its latest incarnation is something called a United States of South India — framed once again, by Left ideologues and academics and propagandised by sitting Chief Ministers. This is not a call for separatism but balkanisation. 

The fact that the CJP is yet another regime change operation is clear to everybody except the mass of its so-called Gen Z zombies. The last attempt at regime change done by a formal political party was the Aam Aadmi Party.  

The CJP is not even a registered political party. It succeeded in drawing the first blood for three main reasons. 

The first is timing. Back when the AAP made its foray, the Narendra Modi tsunami consumed everything in its path. 

The second: any government in its third consecutive term is bound to become fatigued and complacent and will be afflicted with the same ills of enjoying prolonged power. 

The third: the BJP’s continued apathy towards fixing education from the ground up.

This is not just about NEET paper leaks but about permanently diffusing the nuclear bomb called education that the Left has aimed at its own country. 

You can’t have an education system that teaches kids to hate their own country and culture and still expect them to become patriotic and law-abiding citizens. We’ve now reached the stage where we need to safeguard students from their own teachers and professors. The American and European system of education had reached this stage nearly 35 years ago. To understand the step-by-step process of how that happened, I refer the interested reader to the following books: 

1. The Closing of the American Mind

2. Profscam

3. Dumbing Down our Kids

4. The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

Of these, The Professors makes for truly scary reading and shows how a well-networked Leftist cabal succeeded in turning American children into apologists, defenders and supporters of Jihadi terror and advocates of overthrowing the existing system of the American government.

Chapter 6: Democracy on the Brink

THE EMERGENCE of CJP-like outbreaks in former European colonies — increasingly, in Asia — also indicates a fundamental shift in the form of government known as democracy. If one takes a long view of history, it is clear that the era of democracy is on the brink. 

Perhaps the most conspicuous evidence for this is how democracies are powerless against Islamism and globalist powermongers like George Soros. Soros is just the most visible face and the undoubted posterboy of a phenomenon that has swept world over the last two decades. No one can tell how many kindred spirits exist in the shadows. They are driven not by ideology but by chaos; indeed, creating chaos is the very definition of an Asuric psyche. 

George Soros’ record clearly shows that he funds any person, group or organisation that wishes to create unrest in any part of the world. This among other things, explains why a majority of his patronage goes to the Far Left because the Left is the proven master of engineering unrest and civil wars leading to bloody regime changes. 

The rise of people like Soros isn’t a freak development but a logical outcome of recent history. 

As long as Soviet Russia was around, it kept America busy. The US spent the better part of the twentieth century preventing and combating the spread of Communism on its soil. With the fall of the USSR, the US had conclusively won a momentous battle and thought it had won the war itself. Ever since, it did two things simultaneously. One, it became complacent. It confounded the destruction of Soviet Russia with the destruction of Communism itself. Two, the victory naturally bred hubris and hubris did what it always does; over the last three decades, the US has toppled and destabilised a record number of countries and societies. Today, it has no friends left. 

Hubris is also what blinded the US to the Far Left cancer that had already infested not its political space but its educational sphere. By the mid-90s, the generational work done by the Frankfurt school, the cultural Marxists and the Critical Race theorists had started to yield a steady and unstoppable harvest. Influential academics like Martha Nussbaum, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, et al., were grooming students who would go on to craft and propagandise lethal narratives like Woke. This was preceded by a nationwide rigging of elementary education. As usual, cautionary and sane voices were ignored. Here are some samples that show the sinister modus operandi that the Left used in order to subvert education. 

Closing of the American Mind (1987)

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise —  as priests or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Students learned to doubt beliefs even before they believed in anything.

Parents are in denial about the effects of their children’s indulgence in rock music, and have thereby lost control over their children’s moral education. 

The humanities are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs are idling. 

What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.

Profscam (1988)

…a modern university [whose] curriculums that look like they were designed by a game show host… the product of this all, a generation ofexpensively credentialed college graduates who might not be able to locate England on a map.

In the midst of this wasteland stands the professor.

Almost single-handedly, the professors… have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education… the Academic Man, this strange mutation of 20th-century academia who has the pretensions of an ecclesiastic, the artfulness of a witch doctor, and the soul of a bureaucrat… good teaching is penalised… The rogue professors of today are not merely obscurantists. They are politicians and entrepreneurs… If absolute power corrupts absolutely, academic power tends to corrupt absurdly.  

Dumbing Down our Kids (1995)

School Administrator Vera Dawson explained that in the past the schools had focused too much on “knowledge” and not enough on what she called “the application of knowledge.” She regarded historical facts as trivia, the effluvia of an outmoded curriculum, useless, worthless knowledge on a par with the color of her blouse the previous season.

Eighth-grade student Andrea was not especially motivated by the three weeks the class spent picking up cereal with tongue depressors, an exercise that was supposed to simulate the way birds feed. As part of the project, students used toothpicks, spoons, and even clothespins to pick up peas. They also spent class time hunting for paper moths on a wall.

In her math class, students were given A’s just for answering the homework problems—whether or not they got the right answer. Just trying was enough; accuracy was optional.

Witness the ingenious notion of “invented spelling.” It’s not wrong, it’s creative. 

Educationists… have encouraged Americans… to be suspicious of any education that demands hard work and intellectual challenge… schools are operated not by society’s standards, but by those of the educationist establishment that has dominated American schools for six decades.   

Schools are increasingly emphasizing so-called “affective” learning that deals with the feelings, attitudes, and beliefs of students.  The emphasis on “feelings” means that schools frequently usurp the prerogatives and invade the privacy of families. This includes offering courses that encourage children to report their parents’ attitudes and behavior if they make the child “uncomfortable.” 

The capture of the Democratic Party by the Far Left was the triumphal culmination of this decadal work that its academics and intellectuals had invested. The vision was set in the 1930s. Until the 1960s, Presidents and Prime Ministers could effortlessly quote from the Classics from memory in public speeches. That breed has become extinct because education has been vandalised. The “advisors” of politicians and heads of state today are social media “influencers.” 

Chapter 7: The Devil Speaks in a Forked Tongue

SINCE ITS FOUNDING YEARS, the Left has always espoused the language of brotherhood, peace, equality, fraternity, diversity and inclusivity. Yet, its own cadre is distinguished by stark uniformity if not unanimity in almost every aspect. 

A Gen Z zombie of the US or UK is indistinguishable from his/her/Its Indian counterpart except by skincolour. They speak variations of the same gibberish; they paint their hair in different hues of the same hideous neon rainbow-vomit; the tattoos on their bodies resemble a cultural wasteland; their self-inflicted organ mutilations generate envy in the gut of a dead Spanish Inquisitor. This is not enforced uniformity but an internalised one. 

Gen Z is a global brotherhood of programmed dumbness — programmed by an alleged education system and nurtured by teachers. 

While education has been annihilated in the West, its perverse model has already made deep and extensive inroads here as the CJP’s anarchic attempt demonstrated. But India faces a rather unique threat — both the American Far Left and Far Right hate India for their own reasons. If the American Far Left is a Raktabijasura, the Far Right is a Bhasmasura. 

Chapter 8: A Generation of Sociopaths                

THE CJP LUMPEN actually deserve our gratitude for voluntarily, gleefully exposing the extent of the depravity that has infected them. Their naked — literally naked — displays of unhinged behaviour is truly indescribable. This conduct lives in a realm beyond deviance, beyond vulgarity, beyond depravity and puts savagery to shame. A savage acts on the impulse of raw instinct. The CJP has been taught to behave like this. What makes it even worse is that its Gen Z actors indulged in it with a sense of pride and heroism. Tamil writer Jayakantan, an eyewitness to similar behaviour exhibited by the Communists and the DMK cadre of a bygone era, perfectly describes what it really means: 

The so-called Gen Z is perhaps the first generation that stands for… nothing, respects nothing, not even itself. Because it knows nothing. It has only been taught rebellion, not respect. For Gen Z, “revolution” is not only heroic and sexy but aspirational. 

From a historical perspective, Gen Z is perhaps the finished product of a malevolent intellectual movement that began with Rousseau; a definitive juncture of this movement was the emergence of moral relativism, which basically means that there is nothing like absolute values; values depend on the politics of the person who espouses them at a given point of time. One of the foremost proponents of moral relativism in our own era is the arch pervert, Ram Gopal Varma. 

Over the last two decades, the reincarnated Far Left extended moral relativism into absolute nihilism by erasing the line separating right and wrong. Its proudest creation yet is the CJP whose members and supporters are a mutant strain of Gen Z. 

Parents are as equally responsible for allowing Gen Z to be infected by ideological perverts masquerading as teachers and professors. These parents grew up in the post-liberalisation era and eventually found themselves becoming wealthy at a scale unimaginable to their parents. In the bargain, they truly liberated themselves from the only thing that had kept their parents strong in adversity: cultural rootedness translated as family values. 

In general, these parents are distinguished by the following broad traits: 

1. Cultural illiteracy leading to cultural orphanhood

2. Insatiable wealth mongering leading to lifelong insecurity

3. Barely concealed hubris arising from the accumulation of wealth which breeds a lack of humility

4. Leading a transactional life 

5. A casual apathy to and cluelessness about pretty much everything excluding their jobs and professions

The consequences have been entirely predictable. 

When you spot “parents” in their twenties carrying their infant into a nightclub, you know how that infant will turn out after 15 years. 

This sort of unmoored and hedonistic “parents” will naturally become powerless before their own kids when they grow up. From a very early age, such children will learn to regard the  father not as a hero but as a prized victim who can be blackmailed for life. They naturally seek out role models outside home. At school and college, they are incubated in an environment that teaches them not to work hard and take life’s blows but to “feel good” about themselves. 

And when they enter the job market… well, scan workplaces around you and you find Gen Z interns and executives who demand pampering and “equality,” not workload. Ask any middle-aged professional — lawyers, doctors, CAs — about the quality and work ethic of their Gen Z interns — the answer will spook you. And these Gen Z kids may or may not subscribe to the CJP worms. 

In recent times, OTT has been one of the most powerful engines to brainwash and distort the psyche of Gen Z; a distorted psyche automatically distorts the sense of reality. In general, it has taught them casual sex (often with multiple partners at the same time), cultural hatred, depraved conduct, drug abuse, lawlessness and the most alarming of all — it has taught them to hate their own parents. 

On another plane, hundreds of studies have conclusively shown that mobile devices and social media are the Gen Z’s oxygen. Increasingly, it appears that the highest aspiration of a Gen Z is to become an “influencer.” Thousands of real-life instances demonstrate how this  quest for soullessness has led to extreme behaviour: mutilating body parts, jumping off cliffs, brandishing weapons in public, doing dangerous vehicular stunts, getting naked before the camera… other instances are too gross to mention. 

It is thus not coincidental that almost every CJP goon was an “influencer” of some sort. What was especially conspicuous in the attempted siege of Delhi was the manic behaviour of Gen Z females, most of whom were Hindus. Their sheer crassness is a universe in itself. 

Chapter 9:  Brave New World            

 IF THE CJP and its motley band of vandals is any indicator, it is clear that this specimen of Gen Z is an embodied weapon of mass destruction. The ultimate goal of their handlers is not to topple the Modi government but to obliterate the very institution of government itself. If you want to understand what will replace a government as we know it, I highly recommend reading three classics: Demon by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; 1984 by George Orwell. Read it in that order. 

The fact the CJP outbreak occurred right under the Modi government’s nose points to the same reality: the Left’s stranglehold on education, culture and entertainment. This enables it to set, dominate and dictate the narrative and thereby groom future generations as well. 

The most chilling revelation of the CJP episode was the number of kids publicly abusing their own parents. If the existing system of education persists, there will come a time when children will come for their parents if they merely suspect them as the enemies of their “revolution.” In fact, Rang de Basanti — a mandatory diet of Gen Z — has already given the blueprint for it. The character played by Siddharth murders his own father in cold blood. The movie’s scriptwriter now struts around as a devotee of Adi Sankara. 

But Rang de Basanti itself has a historical precedent; in the Communist Paradise of the USSR, children were actively encouraged by their teachers to “report” on their parents’ conversation and activities. If the State suspected any bourgeoise tendencies, it summarily arrested the parents and subjected them to a firing squad or packed them off to the dreaded Gulag. 

This is the multidimensional reality of the CJP’s so-called protests against the NEET leaks. 

The fact that paramilitary forces had to be deployed to oversee a “civil” agitation shows the eerie gravity of the issue. The government’s weak-kneed response while understandable, shows how it had failed to read the roots of the problem. 

Nothing short of a thorough purge of the academia is the solution. While Amit Shah’s elimination of jungle Maoist terror is truly commendable, it is only a partial victory. In hindsight, it appears that the Left no longer needs armed cadre. It now commands a loyal, standing militia of brainwashed Gen Z kids who are thirsting for a good revolution.

Epilogue

IT IS IRONIC that I wrote this depressing essay on the auspicious festival of Guru Purnima. But to end on a sombre note, I will leave you with an evocative passage written by K.R. Qanungo, a scholar, historian and educationist, on the educational atmosphere that existed a century ago. 

In those days there were no distractions to divert the mind of students from study, no irresponsible politicians to dish out extremism and defiance of discipline, no movies to play havoc with the morals of the youngsters. There were theatres but these were not frequented except by abandoned characters and the black sheep of colleges. Students did not have to spend much on clothes, a dhoti and a shirt, a China coat was considered as decent dress. Politics and cinema stars, smoking and gossip were not the usual relaxations in those days as they are in ours. Professors, teachers, probable questions in the coming examinations were the absorbing topics of their evening conversations. 

|| Tasmai Sri Gurave Namah ||