🧵 Sun Lo Zara… The Lost Dignity of Indian Labour and the Great Political Hoax
“Lali mere laal ki, jit dekhu tit laal…”
— Khusro's verses whisper from forgotten farms and fading factories, while India marches with thumping chests and hollow pride.
🔺 The Silken Deceit: India @75 and the Mirage of Vishwaguru
India today is being told a myth: that its ancient Sanatan culture, guided by "dharmic nationalism", is finally reclaiming its rightful place in history. That under one man’s leadership, the nation has risen, shedding the "burden" of 55 years of Congress-led socialism and minority appeasement. That India was kept poor, servile, and confused—until now.
But let us pause. Reflect. Fact-check.
What we are witnessing today is not a renaissance—it is a carefully choreographed spectacle, designed to erase the very soul of India's plural and inclusive democracy. Behind the "new India" lies the silencing of the old India: of artisans, farmers, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities, and the countless invisible hands that built India’s economy, culture, and collective conscience.
📜 Congress Rule: Imperfect, Yet Steeped in Justice
Between 1947 and 2014, despite many administrative and political failures, India progressed on one essential axis: economic and social upliftment of the bottom rung. This wasn’t just tokenism—it was structured via:
- Land Reforms and Abolition of Zamindari (1950s–60s)
- Reservation policies for SC/STs and OBCs, with Mandal Commission implementation (1990)
- Massive public sector investments creating jobs, industrial townships, and skills
- Rural employment and education initiatives (from Operation Blackboard to MNREGA)
- Green Revolution & White Revolution lifting rural India into food security
- Nationalisation of Banks (1969) which extended credit to small farmers and MSMEs
- The Right to Education, Forest Rights Act, and NREGA under UPA, targeting the most deprived
This model created India’s Middle Class—not from just upper castes—but from farmers, artisans, Muslims, Dalits, and BCs/OBCs who were finally given institutional support.
It was not perfect. But it was inclusive.
📉 The BJP-RSS Model: Upper-Caste Cronyism Masquerading as “Reform”
Now contrast this with the BJP/RSS-led regime post-2014.
While loudly proclaiming economic reform, they have in reality:
- Weakened MSMEs: Post-demonetisation and GST, small units—largely owned by OBCs, artisans, Muslims—have collapsed. As per The Wire, handicrafts, leather, and textiles have seen a 40–60% dip in exports.
- Privatised PSUs: The few spaces where Dalits/OBCs had job security (railways, banks, steel plants) are being sold off, eliminating reservation protections.
- Caste-focused welfare: Despite data, most major business loans (Mudra, Startup India) have disproportionately favoured upper-caste entrepreneurs.
- No caste census: A deliberate refusal to count OBCs and their economic status—so as to protect the Brahmanical myth of “meritocracy”.
- Bulldozer justice and mob lynchings have created a climate of fear for minorities, damaging their ability to run businesses or access credit.
This is not Sanatan Dharma. It’s economic apartheid.
💥 The Narrative War: “Congress Did Nothing” vs. “Hindutva Saved India”
This propaganda is so powerful that many educated Indians today truly believe that:
- Congress “kept India poor”
- Nehru and Indira were “socialists who hated business”
- Modi is “pro-entrepreneur”, despite India's industrial output now being less than Vietnam or Bangladesh, as per recent data.
This myth ignores how every successful private enterprise in India—Infosys, L&T, Wipro, TCS—stood on public education, PSU contracts, and welfare-fed markets.
The RSS doesn’t want inclusion. It wants a return to varna-based economy—where manual labourers, farmers, weavers remain in service of an upper-caste-controlled high-tech economy funded by Adani, Ambani, and algorithmic propaganda.
📉 The Backlash Has Begun: India's Margins are Speaking
The myth is cracking.
- Dalits and OBCs are organising for proportional representation and demanding caste census.
- Farmers’ protests have shaken North India’s power calculus.
- Even among Brahmins and Banias, a growing youth class realises there are no jobs, only slogans.
When justice is denied, and when labour is insulted while "bhakts" chant fake glory, the social contract collapses.
India’s strength was its moderation. RSS broke it.
🔮 A Post-Hindutva Future: The Coming Fall of the Upper-Caste Crony Elite
History is unforgiving.
Like apartheid South Africa or pre-Revolution France, any model that:
- Centralises capital and dignity to a minority, while
- Denies dignity and voice to majority groups (Dalits, OBCs, artisans, women),
...eventually collapses.
Modi’s Hindutva was a reaction, not a solution.
As India's youth become aware of their denied dreams—of manufacturing jobs that never came, of IT layoffs, of caste discrimination in startups—the saffron fog will lift.
Not because of Congress resurgence.
But because truth cannot be hidden behind WhatsApp forwards forever.
🌾 Conclusion: Let the Real India Rise
This is not about Modi or Rahul.
This is about two models of India:
- A caring, rights-based, slow but inclusive democracy, and
- A fast-talking, authoritarian regime obsessed with image, caste hierarchy, and control.
Let us return to the roots.
To Khusro, Kabir, Gandhi, Ambedkar—not to Golwalkar or Savarkar.
Let labour be divine. Let art be sacred. Let all Indians—regardless of caste, religion, or language—own their future.
“Lali dekhan mai chali, mai bhi ho gayi laal…”
We must see the red again—not just on flags and fabrics—but in the eyes of the workers whose dignity was stolen by false gods.
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