THE POWER OF RESISTANCE

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For students like us with science drilled so deep within our heads, the first imprint on our minds for the word resistance is just the tiny two terminal device we so hate in the electronics lab. But take a break guys, in the mad rush of everyday we have forgotten the magnificent role this noun can play in our lives.

Each of our day is filled up with numerous whinings about one or the other omnipresent problems, say injustice, corruption, pollution or even terrorism. Even if we open our eyes to these problems and mutely support leaders like Anna Hazare, we seem to forget that each one of us can be a leader and solve these problems for ourselves through the sheer power of resistance. Resistance basically means offering an opposing or retarding force. Isn’t opposition to something wrong and conviction in one’s cause, all it takes to battle any evil gripping our society.

Corruption would not have taken such an incurable form in the country and become incombatible unless a separate constitutional body is established for it. Handing a 100 rupee note to the traffic cop and  breaking rules the very next day is a shortcut which shouldn’t be taken. The key is resistance to corruption. We must not forget that somebody who turns a blind eye to a pressing problem is as guilty as its propagator. The same argument is applicable to terrorism and the violent side of Naxalism as well. Resistance to these would have been in the form of the economically deprived or the other discriminated sections resisting their respective governments’ indifference and waging a peaceful war for their rights. The priviledged class should also not have ignored the governments’ apathy towards their counterparts and used their erstwhile position of advantage to resist this extreme wrong by the so-called people’s representatives. As economic and rights deprivation are the root causes for terrorism and Naxalism, these would have been successfully nipped in the bud itself and not become a pan-world or pan-India problem!

History gives us many illustrious examples of the breakthroughs in science or battles won against atrocities of cruel rulers through resistance in the form of an inhibited spirit for fight and not fearing the harsh, inhuman punishments of those times. In an age of church principles being blindly followed, we would never have got epistemology and logic, had it not been for socrates and his resistive will power. Nor would we have had the astrophysics of today if galileo would have remained a nobody fearing the church. The french society would not have been of the form today without the fearlessly resistive group of the Jacobins or the many philosophers Voltaire, Rouseaue.

In conclusion on tracing the timeline of all the long standing problems in the world or india, be it gender,class,caste or racial discrimination, poverty, population boom or even pollution for that matter, have a simple solution i.e. resistance to their root causes. So people, awaken the dormant power of resistance in you and shape the world and our country in the way you want rather than waiting for somebody to do so. Just resist and feel the difference you can make!!!