Widening restlessness
It came as a big surprise, for many a big shock, when they heard that 60,000 Moroccans had crossed their country's borders and swam across to Ceuta Island that belongs to Spain. If accepted there, they could look for fortune anywhere in Europe. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was totally taken aback. Trump said the Spanish crisis was a warning for the US; that this was exactly what he had feared for his nation. The Moroccan migrants screamed they would stay on whatever befell them. But they had no choice; they had to return. The Spanish armed forces made sure they returned. Those Moroccans felt their dreams crushed.

Suvendu Adhikari's experience was different. When he took over the leadership of Bengal, his ultimatum to the so-called Bangladeshi infiltrators was "Jaldi Jaldi bhago..." But there was resistance from Bangladesh. Matters moved little beyond words. That was the experience of Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, and of Amit Shah in other parts of India. They could not go beyond SIR exclusions, detention camps, bulldozing Muslim properties, and issuing ultimatums.

People are on the move
If Bangladeshis are on the move, so are Indians, including Gujaratis, who are pushing their way into Canada, the US, the UK, the EU, and other places. Daily, you hear of Indian risk-takers rescued from boats in the English Channel, beaten up or killed in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Canada, and in different parts of the US. Tribals from North Myanmar are struggling to enter China, Chinese into America, Filipinos into Japan, Mexicans into the US, Afghans into the EU. No jobs, no hope, no future in their own country, they say. Every technological step forward, like AI, creates new anxieties. Though there may be creative ways of solving them, people are failing to do so.

China's workers are losing jobs in a significant way due to the development of Artificial Intelligence. Millions may be thrown out of comfortable positions in a short time. Chinese firms like Alibaba and Baidu have hastily replaced workers with AI. It is said that 70 million jobs, 9.6% of the workforce, are under threat of being replaced very soon. Workers above 35, married and with children, are dismissed first. Their family worries bother company administrators! All human sensitivity is fast diminishing!

Please take note: joblessness is not only in the Third World. Britain has one million between 16 and 24 unemployed. French youth are often agitated, young Spaniards 'angry.' Frequent changes of leadership in the UK and EU countries in recent years make one wonder how well the political and economic institutions are functioning in those countries. 'General discontentment' is evident. Anger against migrants is just a part of it.

Deeper 'collective thinking' needed for solutions
Some solve problems by moving out. Over 2,400 minors have committed suicide in Assam alone since 2021. National numbers are depressingly high. Others solve problems by helping people to move out. Johannes M., a 41-year-old German doctor, was recently accused of easing out 15 patients from life (through euthanasia) under his palliative care. He was given a life term for his crime. He had administered a lethal mixture of various medications, without the patients' consent, mostly during his home visits. Similarly, in 2019, a nurse who had killed 87 patients was also given a life sentence. Is the best solution to suffering the elimination of those who suffer? Not a few are attempting it.

The trouble with today's leadership is that they are least worried about the general welfare of society, but merely about GDP growth and export expansion. Trump was frank in admitting: I am not worried about 'ideas' and 'ideals,' but about 'deals.' For, business is business, market is market! According to Economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar, India's service exports were $418 billion in 2025-26, goods exports $442 billion, and remittances $144 billion. There was pride in making the claim.

Voldemort, a character in Harry Potter, says, "There is no good and evil. There is only power and those too weak to seek it." Our Founding Fathers were concerned for those without power, Modi-Adani-Ambani about export expansion. The latter's strategy: cultivate ambition in a privileged few, and let them exploit the under-privileged. This is a strategy that the Aryans formulated for themselves and the Dasyus more than 2000 years ago. Modi is dead set on restoring it.

Over 94,000 schools have been shut down, with UP, MP, and Jammu and Kashmir the worst affected. There is lower enrolment and higher dropouts among the more unfortunate. The SCs, STs, Muslims and the poor are the main victims. Is the New Education Policy (NEP) about closing doors to the weaker sections? Plutarch used to say, "Don't speak about your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself." Modiji must remember this adage. See, 26 bridges have collapsed in Bihar during the last 5 years, some during construction time or others at inauguration time. This is the Gujarati gift to North India! A general collapse is ahead!

CJP seeks to be a pressure group
Abhijeet Dipke says the CJP does not intend to form a political party; they just want to be a "pressure group." They seek to be the voice of the Indian Public. "Kya bolti hai public," (What does the public say?) they wish to study. However, they will do well to study: "Kya sochti hai public," (What does the public think?) too. What does the public think? What is on their mind? This is very important in the context of intellectuals and thinkers silenced (kuch nahi bolne sakte hai), critics who have 25 cases against them, people whose houses have been demolished, citizens whose names have been eliminated from the voters' list. The CJP is doing well in going by ideas, not groupism, sectarianism, communalism and exclusivism.

It will be good if they study the 'social order' and growing distortions in the political order that is leading the country astray. That is the most useful thing they can do, if they wish to act as a helpful "Pressure Group." Manoj Jha cautions citizens against "those who turn abuse into a political culture, hatred into an electoral strategy." What does the CJP think about the prevailing political system? Modi-Shah centralisation, for example? The abuse of the Enforcement Directorate, the Central Bureau of India, the Election Commission, the buying up of MPs and MLAs, and manipulation of SIR?

Abhijeet has a clear vision
Abhijeet Dipke seems to think about education, employment, inflation, the high cost of living, the economy, etc. It is no longer talent or suitability that ensures a future, but patronage and partisan loyalty. Dipke argues that people have lost faith in institutions. What about the RSS, then? Its lack of transparency, its calls for unity on the one hand and drive for polarisation on the other?

To distract the public from such sensitive issues, the Right Wing's paid agents began questioning the funding of Dipke's study expenses. He was quick to provide evidence of Boston scholarship and the loans he took, which have to be paid back in due time.

As the CJP seems to remain consistent and sturdy in its self-assertion, the Government feels enfeebled. The Ruling Duo seems less and less visible or audible! Let them listen to Kautilya, if not to the Opposition: "The tranquillity of the king depends on the contentment of his subjects, his prosperity on theirs; he must not consider good what pleases him, but what pleases his subjects." But Modiji's 'all-knowing' pose (sab janta pretension) has tripped him over.

PM-HM's invisibility doesn't help
When the Ram Temple theft was being discussed in the Rajya Sabha, the Prime Minister and the Home Minister were both absent. What are they up to these days? Are they planning another Mela or Yatra, another Temple construction, or another shabby project to distract? Are they contemplating another lathi charge or pellet-gun assault on the CJP winners, or searching for ways to divide the winning team? Amit Shah was the direct target of the Congress. He would be tackled from various perspectives. Yogi, on his part, fiercely defended the Ram Temple Trust.

Ashok Gehlot is very sure that the BJP-RSS had deliberately captured the administration of the Ayodhya temple. They sent no less a person than Champat Rai to Ayodhya, after his great performance as a Pracharak for 45 years. So, everyone knows, ultimately, that it was Modiji himself who chose members for the Ayodhya Temple trust. Pramod Tiwari confirms it. In this lies the danger of centralising powers in a single hand, a one-man show. All fingers will point at him. Invisibility seems to save him for a moment. But will it?

The theft transactions of the Ram Temple Trust were "invisible" for a while. Money was stolen in socks, hidden in toilets, and finally transferred to the VIPs who controlled affairs. "Forged receipts" were regularly issued for donations. Did these activities remain "invisible" forever? Congress claims that the probe into the Ram Temple theft case has remained a sham so far. In the meantime, deceit cases in other temples too are multiplying. This is the danger of mixing political power with religious initiatives.

A centralised regime is sure to head for a chaotic collapse
Think of how Hitler and Stalin ended their days. In our own days, Duterte of the Philippines was thrown out, Orban of Hungary was rejected, and Trump is tiptoeing his way to exit. If Erdogan of Turkey, Putin of Russia and Xi of China remain on, manipulating elections, eliminating competitors, appointing judges, be sure of disastrous consequences. Judge Ujjal Bhuyan contends that the Prime Minister's power to choose judges is going to the extreme. The Collegium's unexplained recommendations risk bad appointments, he argues.

Terrible things are happening, and people remain silent and uninvolved: arbitrary exclusion of honest citizens, for example; the Election Commission being misused and manipulated. Over 5 crore names have been deleted in 13 states by SIR (of late, reduced a little). Recently, 24 Opposition parties and Kapil Sibal wrote to CJI Surya Kant, asking him to suspend the ongoing SIR operation; the Election Commission has evidently turned partisan.

The top leader "uses" his subordinates, tribals, and Dalits
If Modi and Shah are absent, there is Rijiju to defend them and explain. The Top Leader "uses" tribals and Dalits. They are little aware that they are being used, whether they be Rijujus, Sonwals or Murmus. Be sure, they have no decision-making power. Rijiju says that Amit Shah was coming to the Parliament every day. Himanta Biswa Sarma defends Modi-Shah for not visiting flooded Assam, which they usually rush to, to make empty promises. Modi is in Andhra, inaugurating Bhogapuram airport. He boasts that it will emerge as a mighty manufacturing hub.

Our "invisible" Prime Minister has been to 39 countries during the last two years, winning 14 "national awards." But to whose interest? For his own political interest. In the meantime, Himanta's bulldozers have gone dead when they are needed for flood relief operations. Are they meant only for the destruction of Minority houses? Himanta, who organised tribal dances to catch votes, has forgotten all about them when they are suffering under floods.

Anxieties on a Wider Level
BJP's excessive boasting about Operation Sindoor has persuaded Pakistan to make a defence alliance with Turkey and Saudi Arabia. They have made our neighbourhood less safe. That is the unique service that the BJP has rendered to the country.

Many US-supported nations in Gulf countries have lost confidence in their Western Ally. What lies ahead for the Middle East is not clear.

Iran vows to pay back America "eye for an eye." Mourners of Ali Khamenei at funerals called for the killing of Trump and Netanyahu. Will such an atmosphere lead to terrorism reaching out to Europe and America?

While Iran's aggressive language should be understood in the context of Trumpian boasts and aggression, Iran too ought to have a sense of responsibility for the welfare of the wider world concerning global oil dependence, international trade, and neighbourhood harmony. A German of Lebanese descent running a car over a crowd in Berlin was an eye-opener for many. Will inter-community violence take deeper roots in the West?

Lights on the Horizon
In this context, it must be encouraging for Indians to hear that even Chinese geologists question the safety of the Brahmaputra dam in Tibet over an active seismic fault line. Any future disaster will affect Assam and Bangladesh.

The US, the UK, and 12 other countries have supported the Hague Tribunal's allotment of parts of the South China Sea to the Philippines and other nations like Malaysia, Vietnam, and Brunei. China, of course, is greatly upset. They have sworn not to accept the decision.

Let me end with a message that Sanae Takaichi, the Prime Minister of Japan, gives to her colleagues. It is equally good for Modi-Shah, Rahul-Kharge, or CJP leaders... for every one of us. Takaichi says, "Work, work, work." She calls up her aides at 3.00 am. Hard work is much a part of our Indian tradition. According to Hiuen Tsang (Xuanzang), the Chinese monk who visited India in the 7th century, "Harsha was just in his administration and punctilious in exercising his responsibilities. He forgot to sleep and eat, in his concern for doing good. He visited and inspected his whole empire."

May there be such sincere dedication to the nation among our political leaders. Solutions to problems are bound to come!