Brown skin white minds: A colonial hangover

Ask a Chinese guy about china's history, he would smile and go great lengths telling you about the rich old tradition of china. Ask an American about USA's past and he will outline the dynamism of the great American dream of American exceptionalism. Ask an Indian similar question and he would find all reasons to evade the question. This is the condition of Indian psyche. It is tormented by the existence of it's own past.

India went through a freedom struggle not just to gain political freedom but to be free from all oppressive forces that didn't allow us to be who we are. Precisely what we lacking today. There is little awareness of how our history goes, only the parts that involve us being trampled over by the Arabic invaders and British are glorified in our academia. A narrow perspective of looking at the ethos and heritage of the country that accommodates  multiple cultures and identities is bereft of our history books.

Some people will be forever under the illusion of freedom. The colonial minds are imprisoned. It has still not managed to escape the abuse of imperialism that derided the colonies to such a menial state that it became awfully difficult for brown slaves to imagine a life other than under the impression of low life jerks. Ever since the colonial mind has bowed down to the supremacy of the powers that was held by elite positions in the administrations during colonialism. Much of our likings and prejudices arises from the colonial perspective of India. When there is so much implosion of ideas of Indian identity after centuries of persecution.

The originality of Indian thought was rekindled with Swadesh Swabhiman and Swaraj was tactfully overridden by cow, caste and curry. The expansion of imperialism in India was strategic. The high ranking Sepoys who were appointed by the white circles of aristocracy. The charm and the influence of western universalism was detrimental in oriental studies of India. The reason of this sense of colonial hangover is because of Deep sense of orientalism has seeped into out social models of infrastructure. education and the legal systems.

A slave carrying his white master on back
for a walk in orchard. 

The Sepoys that worked tirelessly as crutches of British raj to subjugate the Indian soil were rewarded by the white masters into the Anglo Indian community. There were however a few exceptions in the freedom movement. The colonial hangover of Indians has not yet faded off completely, still there's a huge number of white aspiring Indians, who have not yet looked deep into the subject to develop a critical thought of their awe for Goras.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade your reality for a role. You trade your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel and in exchange put on a mask. There can't be any large scale revolution until there is a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
 – Jim Morrison

West has some really great things to teach us. It is also important to acknowledge and adapt to the wonderful scientific and technological explorations in which west has contributed to the world. Nonetheless, this is happening at the expense of losing the originality of Indian thought. While India, looks up to west for modernisation, China has prudently invested and excelled in establishing its own thought without infiltration from control system of Vatican city or other foreign forces.

Bollywood actors who make money off their Hindi films, find it awfully difficult to speak Hindi otherwise. They don't lag behind in endorsing fairness creams either. The pop culture has only played along with the narrative. The NGOs be it big ones or the ones administered by students organisation purposefully admit themselves to the status quo to play along the with the similar codes of affluence.

Indians can go on talking about Bollywood, Bhanghra and Tandoori chicken but they are not very comfortable with the idea of Indian foundation. A home grown leadership that doesn't let people to adapt to any Western narratives is easier. All the ideologies in the world are fine but if it is not organic to the land where it is required, it can be rooted away as easy as a rotten apple. The deep sense of insecurity has swept the universities of India has corroborated and aligned with the implanted ideologies of Marxism in a bid to overthrow existing system with a sense of political equity. The assaults of Marxism on Indian soil have tenaciously increased. Nevertheless, downplayed in mainstream media. The attack on sovereignty of nation can be curtailed through reformative measures not the violent stone pelting that Indian left usually finds itself inclined with and this how the growing irrelevancy of left liberal propaganda is hounded by the growing populist image of Narendra Modi.

The political landscape of India is jolted by the rise of extensive governance with a nationalistic appeal with the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Uttar Pradesh elections saw people rejecting politics of vote bank of caste and voting for BJP's insistence for development. While the political pundits are looking at BJP seizing 2019's elections, Narendra Modi has announced 2022, the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain, as a birth of "New India."