Dear Mr. Narendra Modi,
I am the coveted Aam Aadmi for whom every politician wants to dedicate his life, but sadly only during the months that lead up to an election. Once that election is over and the respective politicians have won or lost the battles raged on the chest of this Aam Aadmi, and often with his blood as well, it is business as usual until the next election. I am also the same Aam Aadmi on whose agony the political class of this country has cooked their ambitions and when the need arose you didn’t flicker an eyelid to burn me to keep your ambition ovens firing. I am also the same Aam Aadmi whose pains the media debates each evening for TRPs and selling a few ads. I am also the same Aam Aadmi who pays his taxes religiously and waits patiently for the rights guaranteed to me by the constitution. I am an apostle of tolerance whose generations have waited patiently for a life of dignity and struggled to feed my family, offer them a quality life, education and a respectable shelter.
Much like a householder like me who runs my family, Mr. Modi, you too run a family, but this family comprises a nation of 1.2 billion. You may not be responsible for how we got here, but you are responsible for where we go from here.  As a householder, I must scrupulously make most of my limited means and earning. Even as it may require curtailing a few pleasures today, I must spend those to benefit for the future of my family. Likewise, as a prime minister you are entrusted this responsibility for the whole nation. Each one of the 1.2 billion who populate this country are affected by any decision you make each day of your life in office. And like in a family, all my decisions are not pleasurable in the now. But I still do it for the future, we save today and invest for a better tomorrow. I do it for my family, you do the same with India’s resources for the whole nation.
The people of this country accepted what you had to offer and with great hope. You sold us a dream, a dream of a better tomorrow. I want to thank you Mr. Modi for lifting that spirit of hope in my countrymen at a time where everything looked so gloomy. Its almost two years since and I try to look for steps you have taken to meet the promises. You yourself admitted this country suffers from a lot of cancers. Cancers of corruption, lack of development, accountability, illiteracy and health facilities, and so on and so forth. Your understanding and compassion for my pain made you the prime minister.
India needs healing from all these diseases and you are the doctor we chose. You diagnosed them well which got you here, but once again like your predecessors you too are only giving the country painkillers which are measures of temporary relief with long term side effects. There is no healing, you too refuse to make painful operations which are necessary to eradicate these cancers from its roots. Instead what we get is painkillers, bandages and sweeteners. I know it requires resilience, understanding and more importantly balls of steel to start this healing process. It will take long time to cure but is there a way out? You and I both know there isn’t, but you will not do it yet. I must painfully ask, why?
I want to see my country where its true place is. Right up there on the world map as a land which was the cradle of world civilization. A land which nurtured leaders like Buddha and Gandhi who showed the path of faith to humanity. A country, rich in heritage and wealth and was once called the sparrow of Gold. I want that place back, you know the road to get there but the politics of appeasing is the last route one can take to get there. The road back involves hard choices and unpopular decisions. I am sorry to say but if you don’t take them with all the power vested in you, you must step aside. The earlier regimes of recent times neither had the will nor the power, you have both. So if you don’t act history will judge you as a bigger failure then all of them combined.
I beg you to stand in your skin and make those hard choices. Generations to come will remember you for your brevity and this contribution not only to India but to the whole world. There is a burden of responsibility of a 1.2 billion people on you and those decisions will even transverse the boundaries of this country and will contribute to the betterment of the human race. Remember India stands for 1/6thof humanity. Please do not let the time pass away, the country has vested the power in you, please use it responsibly and cure us of our cancers. I am listing the 5 biggest cancers of our society and its cures, I may be wrong, I may be right, but I cannot be ignorant of them.  
1.     Reservations: Abolish them in all forms65 years is two generations, and that’s the time reservations have been in force. Reservations based on caste, class & religion. Reservations for education and jobs. And yet those who should have benefitted from these remain backward and aggrieved. I don’t want to argue what will get them out of their misery, but reservations simply aren’t getting them anywhere. It acts as an incentive to continue remain distressed so the incentives aren’t taken away. Don’t reserve jobs and seats, give them to those who deserve. We don’t allow reservations for our soldiers who guard our borders, then how can we allow it for the doctors who save our lives, the teachers to educate our children or the police who protect our rights and enforce our laws. To me they are equally important to any civilized society if not more.
2.     Revamp the Justice System: Justice delayed is justice denied. Law must act as a deterrent to crime, in India it acts an incentive. The aggrieved suffers the abuse of this system for years while he waits for the offenders to be sentenced. We aren’t a lawless nation, but we are not far away from being one. Civil litigations drag for decades, criminals go scot free due to poor investigations and even worse a terribly slow legal system which cries for infrastructure. The ques of cases mount while fear of the law erodes alongside. If there is a law, society must have the confidence of being benefitted by one. Currently I don’t. The only way that can happen is if every case civil or criminal would be decided within one year and no more. Spend money to build courts, hire judges and law enforcers, and don’t stop till every offender can be sentenced within months of being booked. Even if this process takes away a significant chunk of my taxes, do not stop till we get there. The results will astound us all. Every criminal will think 100 times before he commits the next offence and I will live with my head high and with a sense of safety and pride for my society. Imagine how many politicians and civil servants would be behind bars who are twisting the legal system at will and how will scare the corrupt too.
3.     Tax all forms of Income, Agriculture includedWe all earn, a part of that earning is paid as tax to finance the safety, security and social infrastructure that we enjoy. We live in a poor country and some of the richest people in it enjoy these benefits without payment of a penny as tax. Why? Tax those agriculturists who are making millions without a penny as tax. 70% of Indian’s are farmers. You can keep your exemption limits, so it takes out each one of those low income groups who need to be aided. What about the rest? Tax them at regular rates of income tax and now. The money that comes in will be enough and more to build all the courts and schools we need to secure the future of this country. Do it and now.   4.     All Citizens must be equal under the lawWhile this is already in the preamble of the constitution I keep wondering how flawed this statement is. All citizens are equal under the law, but is the law equal for all citizens? No. Get me the uniform civil code. Each one of us are free to practice our own religion, but if religion comes in the way of the basic tenet of equality under the constitution, it must be considered above any religion or faith. ‘Sati’ was practiced traditionally and religiously. Can we allow its practice in modern society? Then how can we allow polygamous marriages? There are tons of examples of inequality in the name of religion which must end. The time has come where we will need a uniform law for the global citizen, but charity begins at home and the clock is ticking. You promised this to us. Now act on it.
5.     Hold plebiscites for all disputed territories starting from Kashmira.     Democracy is rule of the people by the people for the people. This basic tenant is demolished if the military rules the people. We have examples of it in all corners of the country. Naxalites in central India, militants in Kashmir and Bodos in the north-east. They all stem from fundamental grievances with the administration of India, they want freedom from India. You may claim this is the view of a minor part of that population and not the larger opinion. Even if I agree with you, who is to decide if this is true? Those inhabitants right? So let them decide. Hold plebiscites in these regions and let the population decide in favor of Delhi, and if that happens go hammer on tongs on those who don’t. But today, we are no different from Mohammad Gazni or the Nazi’s who enforced law at the tip of the sword. UK set a tremendous example in Scotland and the results are for all to see. Our erstwhile rulers which ironically is also the mother of democracy displayed true democratic principles in Scotland just a year back. India got its independence from UK 65 years back, today we see that as a boon, who knows what surprises hold for these regions in the future. At the end of the day all we are interested in is a healthy and prosperous society which is ruled by their own. Let them have it if they want it and like you say it is only a minority of the population who says this, lets do a plebiscite and shut this debate for the world.
Civilization as we know it is just a few thousand years in age. Today society strives for a better future. A future of prosperity and security, we need to think beyond the constricted lenses of nationalism at times to see the light of a human society which thrives on equality and equity. The time has come to show the world the light again which we have done for a large part of time this civilization has been in existence. Chanting or refraining from saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ is not going to make any difference to Bharat Mata, her dignity is not at the mercy of those who praise her or otherwise. She is a power way beyond that, today that power is represented by the billion children she has and you my prime minister, have the privilege and responsibility to lead these billion children, please stand up for them.