AN ALTERNATIVE.....

India , as we all know from our naive years, is a land of festivals. There are thousands of them some joyous, some pious, for each scrap of human emotion we’ve got a festival of it’s own. One great multicultural,multilingual,but uni dimensional festival we started celebrating since ’52, we gave it a more technical name,which so on and so forth was more apt…”THE GENERAL ELECTIONS”. We tend to celebrate it every 5 years, if something goes wrong in between ,we celebrate it again with the hope that everything goes right again.(remember…..its just Hope….)
So for this term’s elections, in order to make it memorable one great pol party leader announced….that we will (I don’t know if ‘must’ was included here) build the temple. You see, elections are those swords which redesign those lines in our hand, consequently improvising our future. And temples, according to me, is a place,where you meet the infinite, a force with undefined acceleration, which doesen’t take you towards your dharma, but guides you towards your karma. So temple,elections, and our future our quite relative terms, are’nt they?
We all know about that dreaded history of that temple(once a mosque), or the mosque(once a temple). Keeping them aside I often wonder, purely as a to be engineer, that “is building a temple on that dreaded site the only alternative. I mean if one general election’s temple manifesto, is defining our future, then how can that temple end the recession we are facing. Can that God’ abode clean the Ganga at Kanpur. These days when I pass my days studying subjects of pure logic, I find the aims of that temple a bit illogical, so to speak aimless.
So are there any alternatives? What if, we built a school in that place, school which tells you about your country about you duties , responsibilities, about the comforts we have taken and the penance we have to take? What if, we built a hospital there , treating those infants which quite well be the apostles of our development, those war heroes that stand on that snow just to make our lives a degree warmer? And what if, we built a residence for those slum dwellers who submit their days and nights for the people who have a lot more bucks, in the end finding nothing for them, absolutely nothing.
Well , I am not giving any conclusions, I don’t believe in them,as dynamism is the charm of the universe. I am just placing it in front of you. So won’t these aforesaid buildings take us towards the goal we always wanted to achieve, towards that karma we always wanted to be guided to?. Won’t we in a way built a temple of our own…our own India. I gues we will.