Hota Hai : The current Bend of Indian Thought

There are some who question whatever happens around them. They are called the cynics.

There are some who are busy most time. But will sometimes raise hell, when something happens or does not happen according to their most cherished beliefs. They fancy themselves as intelligentsia.

The rest are reconciled to the way the world is. Acceptance of fate is their dictum, letting others tell them what they should do or determining what should be done to them; is their way of life.  These persons are collectively called majority.

Now that in a ‘vibrant’ democracy, that India is (sarcasm intended), majority elects the government, it follows that the government thinking is likely to be attuned to that of its benefactor, the silent majority.

That brings us to the strategic concept of “HOTA HAI”, the much distilled and honed form of the “passive acceptance” philosophy practiced by the acquiescent majority. The polity uses this concept to justify their omissions and commissions and anoint themselves as the true representative of the apathetic populace.

The strategy runs like this,

1. Use a “Totem Pole”, a Symbolic pedestal for the “majority” to look up to, effective on a long term basis.
2. Make sure that you build a “firewall” around this symbol, so that the others cannot use this.  Effective symbols are dynastic superiority, Race, religion, comparative superiority, Comparative inferiority or any innovative motif that lends itself to your exclusive usage.
3. Paint everyone else black. Build a TINA, There Is No Alternative logic.
4. Having secured the whole playfield for yourself, go ahead and perpetuate your control of power and enrich yourself.
5. WHATEVER WRONG YOU DO AND IS OBJECTED TO, USE THE UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE RESPONSE,

HOTA HAI.