we don't like what is not us.
We are beginning to get to the moolmantra now. Of all Indian elections. Maybe elections the world over. Maybe the story of mankind itself.
WE DON'T LIKE WHAT IS NOT US.
And in terms of a number of things, the reason I resonate to a large extent in Indian population groups most with guys like you and @ranjeet is your views towards blood and identity and the more original form of fire veneration as the newest Hindus, but still the purest Hindu Aryans.
You guys are the Parsis who got internalized by the Hindus. Not racially per se, or even religion. But in terms of your origins as a people, your timelines in India, and how least you deviated.
Minus the disparity in our numbers, we are not much different ...
That still leaves us with the fact that at 28 million, you are not small by an measure, but you are not of any consequence in terms of numbers at the top.
So even though you do not like what is not us, when you vote for the country, you vote for what resonates closest to "us". Otherwise what is the link between a Jat and a Gujarati Ghanchi?
We do the same.
Just as you resonate as a pureblood group with a Modi and what he stands for in terms of Hindus at large.
So too with our micro microscopic numbers we too want not only to survive as a group on this land, but to thrive.
Not only to thrive, but to return the favor of being brutally honest, we want to maintain our position and hold at the top. A hold we see being attacked by many new groups since Independence.
Our community has been represented at the top since Indira. And in Rajiv, and now Rahul, we actually have blood that can rule.
What would be great is if the part of my wife's family that is directly related to them from Firoze's side could manage to get him married to a Parsi girl.
That would only solidify the hold we have and should continue to have for the future. Through their children. Indian children.
This racial blood / communal resonance with the Congress and the Gandhi family was briefly broken last elections for a number of reasons. And that too by the young and the middle aged folk. The oldies will die as Congress loyalists. And so will the new 20 year olds who are going to vote for the first time ...
I can tell you for a fact that looking at what we see as the BJP's and the Sangh's agenda for the future of India, that will be the last time.
So we are really not different Sam.
And Doc hasn't really gone mad. He is cold-bloodily sane.
He is just ensuring that he and his kids continue to punch way above their weight on our land.
Cheers, Doc