There have been days when i am down, disappointed, not interested in doing what i was doing. But these last couple of weeks have been worse than that. For some absurd reason i don't feel like studying, and reading just the headlines make me wish to throw the paper away. The way i see it i live with a simple principle, tit-for-tat. I do what i expect, and i let everyone do as they wish as long as they are not getting into my face. And i believe that's the principle that India is built upon, everyone to their own believes, though the real principle is that being so diverse there is no single idea that cant be voted out by the rest of the ideas together. But it had worked out pretty fine so far. But following this approach has made us overly tolerant, we tolerate things we may not like ourselves and that has done a terrible thing to us. We don't know when to say stop. When some hooligans try to take over our daily lives for a day, we take it as a holiday and accept it. That gives the illusion that they can get away with whatever they want, this cant go on. We in the new India need to start being more tolerant as a person as less tolerant as a society. The real challenge is to make every one of the 100 crore plus citizens realise that. Its not easy and i wont call it possible, but i am sure i am young enough to be there when such a day comes in the life of India.
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