Science of Politics

The science of politics is the most critical necessity. Nothing affects human life more than politics and hence only the science must shape our politics. Heavenly, hellish or hideous, what our life may be, depends entirely on our political knowledge. Unfortunately our operative political perception and actions have been determined by the pseudosciences. We lament our predicament but never deconstruct our operative political philosophy. This is the tragedy.

Niraj Kumar Jha

The Thoughtfulness and the Thoughtlessness

To my utter bewilderment,
I found
there was no distinction between
the thoughtfulness
and the thoughtlessness.
Horror stricken
I looked around.
Met my eyes a landscape,
absolutely degraded,
reduced to sand dunes.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Democracy

Amidst us, the general understanding of the democracy is genetically determined. The primitive man who sits in the human genes identifies democracy with the primal ethos, which envisions each man replicating the other man. They want to reduce the civilized men to the specimen. 

Democracy is not that. It is about civilization; it is about private, personal, and advancement; it is about enterprise. The 'great' visionaries installed democracy by making people stand in long queues everywhere. Rationed living is not democracy. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Sophistry and Wisdom

We have been told by a great master that sophistry hazards the humanity by dislodging wisdom but the greater hazard it causes is not told. And it is this - sophistry foists monstrosity in the name of wisdom as its antithesis. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Ideas make all the difference

Ideas make all the difference. This is my reckoning. I saw all the big upheavals, wars, unimaginable technological breakthroughs taking place during this very short span of the 21st century, and yet things remain all the same in terms of the socio-political structures. People want change, as the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street, or the India against Corruption demonstrated, and yet there is hardly any change. Why is it so? There is no idea of change, the new we want. The changes are already there but there is no change. We are waiting for the idea of the new. We need to imagine a new to convert all the new phenomena into a socio-political new. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Civilizations under Rapid Upgrade

Things are happening, phenomenally substantive and rapid, almost on monthly basis. A month of our times may dwarf a century of the bygone ages in terms of the changes it brings. Since people live with it, generally they don’t realize that they are undergoing almost a fresh revolution every day. One of such revolutions is the rapidity of the expansion and quality enhancement of the services people in growing numbers receive through apps. All these have very comprehensive and deep implications for life in general. The peoples would undergo dramatic changes in their worldviews and habits very soon. All these have political fallouts too. Certainly the devilish folks would rush in with their spanners and the good citizens therefore need  to be cautious about such vitiating evil elements. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Freedom Is Not Fun

Freedom, people think, is all about merry making. It is assumed to mean to do what one likes. This is a great error of perception. Basically, freedom is all about responsibilities. Being free is, in fact, not even a state of being. It is only continuous striving, intellectual and physical, personal and collective. The fact is that only slaves have the benefit of being free of responsibilities. Enjoying life is a legitimate goal of life. But despite our indulgences, even in the best way what we can imagine, there always remains an inexplicable sense of void, an irritant feeling of something not being to our liking. We try more and more to fill the void, to remove the irritant, but it simply does not go away. Why is it so? The simple answer is – we are not free. In fact, we have a wrong perception of freedom. It is because our indulgences replace of strivings. 

What is freedom then? Freedom is about one’s dignity, and of others’. It is what the people of devious instinct distaste. And, it thus becomes our unending endeavour – holding on to our dignified existence in association with others. In dignity we have freedom. 

Clarifications: 

1. Merry making is not bad at all but it should not be at the cost of one’s or other’s dignity. 

2. Why do we have bad people? We have it. 

3. Rights are responsibilities, and responsibilities are rights.

Niraj Kumar Jha