La La Land

La La Land

Growing up from 2014, I remember a guy coming on TV 15th August 2014 and promising bullet trains by the 75th year of Independence. I was probably in 4th or 5th class back then. Today I sit here having completed my education, still waiting for that train.

The fact that the entire last decade has been used more to radicalize youth than to build awareness is dangerous. Once people are radicalized, politics stops becoming a battle of ideas and becomes a war between stupidity and intellect. The intellect stays silent because it is the minority. Stupidity spreads because everybody copies trends.

The fact that you cannot question the ruling establishment for anything they do is not democracy. Leaders run away from questions. Opposition leaders face ED and CBI cases, then suddenly switch parties and become “clean.” More corruption allegations exist today against sitting MLAs and Chief Ministers than ever before, yet everything gets normalized.

And this mockery of democracy was never possible without its biggest tool: media.

Media normalized everything.

It started with portraying the opposition as incapable of leading or winning. But beyond that, media normalized party defections, unethical decisions, rape allegations against MLAs and MPs, propaganda, distraction, and blind narrative building.

Even recent departures of popular Genz political leaders (Main naam Nahi lunga, aap Google kar lena) were normalized as if they had no other option.

The recent controversy around the women’s bill was presented emotionally as a “women reservation bill,” when in reality it was deeply linked to delimitation discussions using old census frameworks. But the media of this nation cannot question those chosen to rule.

Leaders have introduced a new culture of one-way answering. They speak. Media amplifies. Citizens clap. Questions disappear.

Trump insults India repeatedly on Truth Social, yet the media spin makes it look like India is giving a masterstroke response every single time. When the Strait of Hormuz crisis happened, even one oil tanker passing safely under the Indian banner was projected as some massive strategic victory.

Meanwhile, what happened to exports? What happened to farmers and traders whose fruits and goods rotted because Middle East routes were disrupted for days? These fruits and goods rot in 15 days. 

But who has the spine to question?

The NEET paper leak should have dominated prime-time news for weeks. Instead, many English news channels were busy discussing Pakistan that same day. Great priorities.

And the funniest part is that there is a guy who can find benefits in all misery (Main naam Nahi lunga, aap google kar lena and now has a government job). Paper leaks become “good for preparation.” 

Media people who cannot tolerate basic questioning, lecture the World Number one ranked country in Press Freedom Index on neutrality and democracy while India sits near the bottom of the Press Freedom Index rankings.

Everything is defended. Everything is normalized. Everything is projected as a masterstroke.

People whose names appear in horrible controversies (Epstein Files) continue making policy decisions while common people simply watch. And the more youth are radicalized, the more they waste their energy fighting useless battles online while real issues disappear.

India has become a country of human capital flight. The old elites leave, new elites replace them, and eventually they leave too.

This nation should not be run by WhatsApp university graduates, 30-second reel creators, German Cockroach like propaganda accounts (Main naam Nahi lunga aap google kar lena), or corrupt ministers who cannot conduct an exam properly.

This country belongs to every citizen born here. And citizens should question the establishment because that is the social contract of democracy.

Or else democracy degrades into shit.

Democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people. But are people retarded? Are they just spineless ? Or they can just dance as the politicians want them to? But what happens when the people themselves become radicalized?

Ask yourself one fundamental question:

Why does no politician want his followers to live in the present tense?

Because the past can always be blamed (70 years ago).

The future can always be sold (100th year of independence).

But the present demands accountability.

Why bring people to reality when smokescreen of the next 30 years and blame games about the previous 30 years are enough to stay in power?

La La Land is the tool.

Media normalizes the delay.

Narratives protect the failure.

And the mockery of democracy is not done only by politicians or political parties.

It is done by citizens silently watching it happen.

History shows that societies collapse not only because leaders fail, but because people become spectators to the failure.