To forget the bitter reality for a limited time, a person is pushed into various types of intoxication. Father of the Nation Gandhi advocated for a form of drug ban, which is being followed by the Gujarat state government, but other than that, the state of drug addiction is permanent. In Gandhi Bapu’s state of Gujarat, billions of rupees are being enjoyed by smugglers while smuggling coffee substances. Today, fifty-four percent of the country’s families have radio, seventy-six percent have TV. As newspapers and magazines are read in fifty-eight percent of the families, they spread positive messages.
Social media also works like this, caste and class differences, religious bigotry spreads through communication media and dirty politics misleads it, which also creates unconstitutional situation and starts conflict of justice and injustice, incidents against humanity happen. Riots lead to bloodshed, ideals of truth, love, non-violence fade. True history is distorted. It is generally accepted history that Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar abdicated while leading the freedom struggle in eighteen hundred and fifty-seven and ended his life with excruciating torture in prison imprisonment in Rangoon.
In Sri Lanka, Rajiv Gandhi was martyred by fanatical groups expressing India’s support for violent insurgency against the government, as was Indiraji, who cracked down on the separatist Khalistan. This is why Rahul Gandhi has put a message in the padayatra that ‘Nafrat ke bazaar mein muhabbataki shop kholne aya hoon’ in which millions of people have also joined. Efforts are made to create communal intoxication to divert attention from issues like hunger, inflation, unemployment.
There are childish attempts to tarnish the lives of great men. Addiction to religious bigotry, addiction to drugs, addiction to wealth, ego, vanity, addiction to self-fame, belligerence, addiction to violence, addiction to narrow selfishness, addiction to high-lowness, appearance-youth-love, addiction to lust, addiction to indulgence, addiction to indulgence, dereliction of duty and misdirection. The blind intoxication of clinging, in many forms of intoxication one forgets the right direction and leads to unwanted situations, the consequences of which are ultimately suffered.
Surat – Yusuf Gujarati– The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.