Opening Salvo

We believe that the Indian intellectual class and through them the thoughts of the power-elite is mired in kitsch.

In close to 80 years of Independence the ideals of the Indian power elite have been predicated on a pastiche of sentimentality and emotional incontinence. What little political theory that escapes the clutches of sentimentality is mired in kitsch i.e. naïve and gratuitous imitation.

We believe that these limitations on our intellectual life have led to the relative ruder-lessness of Indian leadership, in the past 80 years we have not been at the forefront of a single world historical event, the only award we might win is that of being laggards.

These failures of thought have real material implications- most clearly demonstrated by the fact that our best and brightest, and now even the most ordinary and unremarkable all dream of one day fleeing this country for another. The people have voted with their feet and their wallets, and the verdict on our country is in the negative.

Is it not a shame that 80 years after independence one the chief ambitions of an Indian to go live in Britain? Or Canada? Or America? Were the detractors of independence, right? That we are incapable of governing ourselves? And which other country sends its best and brightest, its future leaders to be educated in another country? Where the children of the ruling class hold citizenships of every other country but their own, what does this say about the loyalties of these people? This is not the behavior of a sovereign nation; this is the behavior of a vassal state.

And it is the fate of a vassal to be strip mined of its wealth, resources, and its people, its culture deracinated and turned into a pastiche. To be a vassal state is bad enough to be the citizen of a vassal state is an even worse fate, this is a fate that we wish to avoid for our country and its peoples. The fate of the Philippines or Thailand is not worth pursuing.

Good roads and clean air are basic requirements we aim for greatness we look up to the sort of society that put a man on the moon, our ambitions are not limited to trying to turn our country into Basically-fine-istan. We aim for greatness for the nation and its people.

We aim to complete and fulfil the dreams of our forefathers, we aim to achieve Purna-swaraj, and Purna-swaraj begins with Swarajya of the mind, we do not care to ingratiate ourselves to established figures or established norms, we believe that the norms and ideals that have governed Indian political life for the last eight decades belong in the waste basket of history.

We offer a program of politics and life that aims to light the flame of life in you, we believe the State must govern in the path of Dharma and the individual must strive for excellence, and that both should revere that which is Noble, Holy and True.

We say down with mediocrity, down with corruption and down with cowardice.

Welcome we are in for exciting times ahead.