This ought to be very clear. The Parliament of India is ours. It is the people’s. The people of India, its children, were brutally beaten up, some blinded for life, by the Delhi Police and the RAF which is under the CRPF a central force.
Hence, their boss, Home Minister Amit Shah ought to answer for their crimes. Why is he not appearing before the Parliament for the last two weeks and answering for his force’s draconian brutality? After all, accountability ought to be fixed. Why is the Speaker Om Birla unable to compel the government to answer? It is his duty to remain impartial. Speakers that are coloured and politically biased ought to be made answerable too.
It is not a radical demand of the MPs to hold Amit Shah answerable before the Parliament for the Black Day that is 20th July 2026. It is a legitimate demand that should be IMMEDIATELY met so our Parliament functions.
My guy fixed my fence and told me the price. Then he said, "Cash?"
Not "do you have cash." Just "cash?" A question with one syllable that assumes the answer.
I gave him cash. He knocked forty dollars off. He did not announce the discount. He just handed back two twenties like he was correcting a rounding error.
I asked why cash is cheaper.
He said, "Card company takes three percent."
Three percent. He is not avoiding anything. He is declining to donate three percent of his labor to a company that did not build the fence.
Then he said the part I have thought about for weeks.
He said, "Also I don't want to be a business."
I asked what he meant.
He said, "The second I'm a business, I gotta have a truck with my name on it, and a website, and then I gotta charge more to pay for the truck and the website, and then I'm the guy who charges more."
He has done the math. He has looked directly at growth and decided against it.
In my country a man who does good work is expected to expand. To expand is to honor the work. A craftsman who stays small has failed to be taken seriously.
Here a man looked at expansion and said no, because expansion would require him to become the kind of man his customers call instead of a guy.
I asked how many customers he has.
He said, "I don't know. Same ones."
Same ones. For nineteen years. He does not advertise. He has never had a slow month.
He has no logo. He has no shirt. His truck says nothing.
The truck saying nothing is the credential.
I understand now that in this country there are two economies, and the one with no signage is the older one, and the men in it are not behind. They are refusing.
What does your guy's truck say. I want to know if it says nothing.
Modi had a golden opportunity to make India a golden bird again, to eliminate corruption, because he was a new leader, had the support of the people, and the opposition had become very weak.
But what did Modi do instead? He worked in the beginning, but after that he doubled down on hisab chukta, reservation, and freebies.
Every babu and neta is at least 10 times more corrupt now than they were in 2014. India's demographic dividend is being wasted, and it will be gone in the next 20–30 years. To reap its benefits, the government should have invested in education, but Modi ruined that as well.
He came to power on the mandate of Hindus. He could have enacted many laws; at the very least, he could have freed Hindu temples from government control. But he did nothing. Twenty years from now, he will be remembered as one of the worst Prime Ministers in history of India.