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September 3, 2025
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Satish Jha calls for thunderbolt honesty in confronting India’s failures. My essay was more a lament, written in the hope that cadence can cut as deeply as confrontation.

Honest Lament Voice

His generous engagement with my essay My India, My Love is welcome. The call for “unflinching honesty” does strike a chord, for honesty was the very impulse behind my piece. Diplomacy is not my calling card here. My lament was an atavistic voice within me that sought expression at the sight of a great civilization diminished daily by disorder, indignity, and illusion.

Confronting National Realities

Jha suggests I avoided naming and shaming and confronting structural rot. But I did speak plainly: of garbage-strewn platforms as a national shame, of giant statues rising while libraries crumble, of people turned to sheeple, of demographic dividend turned debt, of history misused as a score-settling vendetta rather than an honest mirror of ourselves. These are not evasions. They are critiques of the very reality he insists must be faced.

Lyrical Critique Expression

If my voice was lyrical, (if this is a compliment, I am happy. If it is not, I’ll take that, also. After all, we eat bitterness too) it was because lament often comes clothed in a flow of sharps and flats and major keys. Cadence does not blunt critique; a mirror can pulverize as deeply as a hammer. What I sought was to appeal not only to reason, but to conscience. My question—“Why do we tolerate this?”—was not rhetorical. It was a demand for self-examination.

Everyday Decency Recognition

Jha warns against romanticizing resilience. But the “unknown Indian” I described—the woman sweeping her doorstep at dawn, the father sending his daughter to school, the vendor who returns exact change—is not sentiment. These lives are not tokens; they are the soil from which any systemic change must grow. To dismiss them would be to abandon hope. To recognize them is not to excuse rot, but to insist that renewal begins in decency.

Dual Voices Necessity

We differ, perhaps, in register. He writes in the thunderbolt. I wrote in the elegy. India needs both. Thunderbolts awaken the sky; lamps light the path. Between them lies the illumination we must seek. Currently, however, we are in Plato’s cave.

About Satish Jha

Satish Jha, a distinguished figure in journalism, social entrepreneurship, and technology for development. He is truly a multidisciplinary leader—bridging the worlds of media, social entrepreneurship, technology, and policy with global insight and local impact.

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