A Bitter New Year Wish for the Republic (A Wake-Up Call)
A Bitter New Year Wish for the Republic (A Wake-Up Call) Happy New Year. May 2026 continue exactly as designed. May we wake up to more headlines of unspeakable violence against women and children—followed by selective outrage , calculated silence, and conveniently redirected blame. May justice remain slow, uneven, and loud only when it suits power. May our timelines overflow with nonstop propaganda— “ Hindus khatre mein hai ,” blasted across X, WhatsApp, and TV debates— while real threats like hunger, unemployment, failing schools, and collapsing healthcare are carefully kept off the screen. May those who shout the loudest about nationalism continue to send their own children abroad—on H-1Bs, green cards, and foreign passports—while lecturing the rest of us about “anti-national” behavior. May we normalize lynchings as “incidents,” dismiss custodial deaths as “procedural lapses,” and forget names like Graham Staines , Stan Swamy , and countless others whose only crime was conscience. Ma...
