Long after the British had left India at the mercy of their servants representing as Prime Ministers, the minds of Indians continued to feel like subservient slaves.
The British poisoned the minds of Indians in such a manner that everything that was India and of their country was projected as inferior to the British, and that still shows to an extent that Indians feel ashamed to speak their mother tongue, and shamelessly follow British in all forms of lifestyle culture and motifs
Such has been the impact of this covert poisoning that a top grade manipulator implanted with an aim to rule the country has been known as “mahatma” despite all questionable actions and intent.
The hatred that Pakistani and their supporters had for Indians because of their unfounded perception, reflected well in the continuation of the soft terrorism in a well thought out organised and directed manner to fall in love with those enemies who will be their terminators in the name of a Ganga Yamuna Tehzeeb under Gajwa-i-hind.
The hallmark of the British shows now as the Indians take pride in being the best slaves in the world. They discard their local wisdom, their ingenious art and architecture, their ways to manage natural resources, their own ways to divide themselves too and interpret every ingenious way their society lived through the lenses of their colonial masters in the ugliest manner possible.
Nehru, and the entire farzi Gandhi clans carried the British legacy of poisoning the minds further—the poisoning done by Gandhis and Nehrus never let India draw pride from its past and feel proud and nationalistic, by distorting Indian history, disregarding ingenious methods of management or appreciating everything that was grand in India.
The seeds sown shows now when none of the youth knows what their country was, how grand were they and the same youth now shamelessly flaunt indignity as a lifestyle symbol, criticising the basics of what constitutes India without any ability to defend their words.
It is incomprehensible to think that only to prove that Islam was great and was a bhaichara religion, the entire of Indian history was distorted, misplaced, and made poisonous so much so that the enemies, who were always looking for striking a final cobra blow, were the ones with which Indians were sleeping and treated them like their brethrens.
It is beyond comprehension how for 70 years Indians have been taught to celebrate Gyanwaapi masjid as a monument of Hindu-Muslim unity and Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb, and not that it was a symbol of hatred filled massacre and intolerance of Islamic jihadists, their and their people.
The masjid is a living testimony to the cruelty of history and barbarism of the ugly invaders perpetrated by injecting the venom of a false narrative where Indians have been taught to forget and ignore the terrorists so that they can have the vitamin of time, increase their strength, and repeat the event with irreversible destruction.
The names like Bakhtiarpur are celebrated and not treated what it historically is. What can be a more lethal dose of poison than this notion?
When the so-called first education minister of Indians stopped the Muslims from going back to their looted land, he poisoned the ethics of ethical Delhites and it shows. When Hamid Ansari was Vice President of India, the mind poisoning event continued at a much faster pace.
It is again beyond comprehension how an ingenious water harvesting and management system of Cholas, and in Rajasthan and in the Ganga plains where no floods and droughts used to take place, now feels miserable during both heavy rains as well as low rains.
It is this lethal dose of poison that makes people treat themselves with those medicines to invite a higher diversity of illness.
It is with a reason why the people of India are anti-India themselves, their minds have been poisoned beyond repair and in every sphere. There is no terrorism grave and serious than poisoning the minds of people, when you control their minds, you control their actions, you control every action including terrorism-sabotage terrorism, diplomatic terrorism, cultural terrorism or intellectual terrorism. These people become enemies of themselves, truth itself can be made into a weapon, transparency a bomb and love for the country as a lethal dose of poison.
In this age of information asymmetry, and even more, our analytical ability is guided by its milieu, our perceptions and feelings are guided by the information we consume whether in history books, in newspapers, TV or social media and only a few people try to search for an explanation behind things that do or sometimes do not match perceptions or with logic. And, in this age of information warfare, information is meant to correct us and throw us off track, if we have either followed a perception or are in the process of evolving logic.
Actions are mediated by decisions, decisions have a foothold on perceptions, and perceptions are subject to manipulation. This paves the way for perception war under which we have been since the so-called independence.
Haven’t we faced this perception war in the last 70 years aimed at making us subservient, and which has been almost in the form of an epidemic?
Infodemic has been fuelled by information and perception war, where we have not been allowed to follow the right path because of deliberately setting up information release and even withholding it.
Infodemic had an identity smothering effect, and a psychological situation created to weaken our basic guard or thwart our naturally evolving logical outcome. Inability to gauge the enemy because of a state of mind that is either numb or dumb or made inferior or apathetic is actually being in a state of constant war but without the danger of being internecine.
The present state of being critical of everything without a reason or logic is a state of Infomedic too. Anyone, having a nefarious design and ill intent, can create an ‘Infodemic’ guided by a design thinking of winning it without actually fighting any war. So it has been a war, a perception war that does not require any weapon, only information manipulation and setting a narrative to create a serious malaise into thinking, and the thinking system into deep crisis.
The worst will happen when we do not prepare for what we cannot see coming, and in our case, we choose to be blind for a long time, in a deep slumber refusing to wake up.
A good information resurrection will always be under scrutiny and even if needs verification are reminiscent of the ill wills of the masters of this art who will place many such misguided pieces of information to remove the coveted guard (kavach) of evolving a logic actually help to prepare our minds to think of the many possibilities that were applied on us as surgery to incapacitate us in the name of treatment and cure.
The writer is a strategic thinker, educationist, earth scientist, author, mentor, and advisor to various governments. Views expressed are the writer’s personal.
In this age of information asymmetry, and even more, our analytical ability is guided by its milieu, our perceptions and feelings are guided by the information we consume whether in history books, in newspapers, TV or social media and only a few people try to search for an explanation behind things that do or sometimes do not match perceptions or with logic.