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To some extent such degeneration is there in every society, but the alarming aspect in India is the pace of this decay and the spread of it. Consequent to this decay is the wave of dangerous cynicism amongst the youth.
This moral decay has to be stemmed to safeguard India’s integrity. A renaissance of values in society has to take place. How will this renaissance come about? And what shall be its instrument, on which is committed to an ideology and determined to implement an agenda for renaissance? And what are the items of this agenda?
Since becoming free of British imperialist rule in 1947, India’s ideological space had been for six decades circumscribed by a Left- leaning secular pro-USSR framework, with very little room left in the mainstream of thought for any other significantly different ideological perspective. Because of a dominant government controlling the “commanding heights of the economy,” ruled by a party that became increasingly authoritarian, any serious secular ideological challenge to this was crushed at the nascent stage. Even when the nation faced a grave economic crisis, as in 1991 to resolve which required dismantling of the oppressive regulatory economic system, could not have been possible successful had the USSR not disintegrated leaving the Communist and Congress Left orphaned. The Left sought to undermine and discredit the reforms. The author of this reform who dared to deviate more than necessary from the past, namely, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, was disowned by his party and the Left, and then pilloried, defamed and criminally prosecuted till his heart gave out. Even in his last rites, he was not honoured which was Orchestrated by a cabal of Left minded Congresspersons. Instead he was made an example of, for others who doubted this framework of socialism.
The Left-leaning secular socialists now seem to have had their innings, and are unlikely to regain the centre stage. What remains today thus is an ideological mish mash. Unless a new ideological framework is designed and presented with clarity to the people, the present hybrid ideological ad hocism will continue.


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