Dear Mr Mahathir
A couple of days behind we woke up to Indian newspaper reports which quoted we as saying which India's democracy is a interruption to a growth as well as if we did divided with a bother of democracy we will be turn grown (1).
Well Sir, it is heartening to see your regard about India's future. Especially right divided which a own inaugurated supervision has orphaned us, someone from a outside caring about a growth sounds so really nice. But we see Sir, your (apparently) great intentions notwithstanding, your advice to Indians is, well how should we put itill-advised. I'm not unequivocally certain if we know much about a story of a nation. Don't get me wrong.
Know Your Facts
Going by contribution similar to a ubiquitous deficiency of news from Malaysia's newspapers; a deficiency of anything though song as well as dance in your electronic media; a deficiency of bookstores which sell knowledgeable books (for example, a ones from which we can sense about story as well as not how to get abounding in six steps); a contentment of malls as well as a stark deficiency of libraries; a contentment of coaching centers which can make masseurs, air hostesses as well as a horde of quick fix technicians as well as a relative deficiency of centres of aloft guidance generally in a amicable sciences; as well as upon top of all a fact which this insanely consumerist as well as sensualist Malaysia was made underneath your tutelage, makes me doubt your believe of a story of India or any republic for which matter.
Understand a Story of Indian Indepe! ndence
So allow me to apprise we of a story of a Independence. We won Independence from colonial rulers waging a prolonged as well as torturous battle. A conflict which sought to replace a discriminatory, unjust as well as aroused system of administration which had enslaved outrageous populations with a single which was formed upon a principles of liberty, equality as well as fraternity.
India was home then, as is right divided as well as as will always be, to an measureless farrago of people who spoke opposite tongues, prayed to opposite Gods, wore opposite garments as well as had opposite political beliefs. These opposite people pronounced to any alternative which we, notwithstanding a differences, will strive to live as well as develop together as well as make a emperor republic which will be democratic, revolutionary as well as secular. We did not anywhere say which we want to be Malaysia or for which matter China or a USA.
India treats all a citizen as equal
We want to turn a republic with a system which treats all a adults as equal distinct your republic which officially accords special rights to Malay Muslims calling them initial category adults whilst relegating thousands of people of Tamil, Chinese as well as alternative racial origins. Despite a fact which they have known no alternative land alternative than Malaysia as their own, we darken them with a tag of being second category citizens.
Meritocracy as well as Hard Work, Not Identity-based Cartelisation
We try to work towards carrying a system wherein a chairman will grow according to his consequence as well as tough work earning what he has justly earned. You may be astounded to know which here in India creation cartels formed upon identity, even if underneath a name of bumiputra or son-of-the-soil, is called cartelisation as well as is looked down upon by most of us.
Here compelling a sele! ctive in terests of one's self or which of his kin is called corruption as well as nepotism as well as not, as we call it, development. We have been in fact fighting tooth as well as nail to detain a flay of corruption as well as (you'll be repelled to know) get a guilty punished.
In India, No One is Above a Law
Here in India no a single is upon top of a law as well as most a times powerful open total go to prison for being corrupt or subverting a law. Now which we have been during it, Sir, I'm certain it would be engaging to know what a minorities of we countries have to say generally a locked up as well as knocked about ones about a development-democracy debate.
In fact Sir, your idea of growth is mostly during odds with most of us here. What we did to a tropical forests as well as water-bodies of Malaysia (that is bomb immeasurable acres of them into oblivion creation approach for big bucks palm oil plantations as well as piggeries as well as so on) would means outrageous outrage amongst most of us who have been looking for sustainable development.
We have been nonetheless to be unanimously assured which creation cemented roads however broad, lining them with buildings even if potion lonesome as well as glossy, putting cars upon them however quick they have been is a surrogate for a valued bio-diversity. Many of us have been really assured which displacing outrageous populations of native people for useless things similar to world-class racing tracks is a peck upon a word 'development'.
There have been most of us who find it a shameful as well as cruel pomposity which in your republic can have abounding openly advertised sex tourism as well as still whip women for being licentious! Thanks to a enlightenment of celebration of a mass here, most of us know of your penchant for cruelty in your personal career. A career during which we enacted despotic as well as aroused acts during times in a name of (your warped version! of Isla m) as well as during times in a name of security as well as national interest.
Malaysia's Internal Security Act, 1960
We could relate how we rose to power annihilating outrageous numbers of your opponents as well as stayed there for over dual decades stability your devious order using tactics as well as schemes which have been distant beyond Machiavelli. Many of us know about your sinister Internal Security Act 1960, which we used to vanquish political opposition jailing as well as murdering them with parole as well as putting in place a frail as well as near assume democracy fixation a entire republic underneath a a single man order of a UNMO for over dual decades.
You will note which in a essay upon top of we have used difference similar to "most of us" "many of us" as well as have tried to stay divided from comprehensive claims. Besides a age old Indian use of accommodating opposite opinions, it is meant to recognise which there have been people in this republic as well who consider similar to we as well as will have applauded we for saying what we did.
They as well consider which roads have been all which have been important as well as not a humans which walk upon them or a ones which sleep next to them. They have misconstrued a word growth as growth of personal resources as well as which this 'development' is a holy cow as well as all together with a rights as well as lives of associate humans is a obtuse priority. Their income power helps them buy a lot of imitation space as well as electronic bandwidth so they may appear similar to a majority, though thankfully a law is they aren't.
Development by Increasing Democracy
The infancy of us recognise as well as have been willing to confess as well as even plead during length which there have been problems in a republic together with bad roads. But they'll quickly add which we intend to compromise those not by lessening ! democrac y though by augmenting it.
1. Speech upon December 2 Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi
The author is a freelance writer as well as romantic formed inMaharashtra.siddharthyaroy@gmail.com
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