Modern Satyagraha

This word 'Satyagraha' is known to most of us but we tend to forget it when the actual situation arises. Mahatma Gandhi - almost everyone of us know this great man from bulky history text books. Inventor of a great theory - revolting without any violence or ' Satyagraha' or to be more appropriate 'Ahimsa Satyagraha'. Many say he is a bad man. Some even called him ' Mountain of evil'. Whatever their arguments might be facts are facts and without him our country would have been drenched in blood. I think i can't describe better than in the words of Albert Einstein that ' The future generations will wonder if such a man in flesh and blood has ever walked on this earth'.
But what have we done to this great man. We have given him place on our roads but not in our hearts. You may say that our politicians implement Satyagraha. But are they really doing it?
Before independence our taxes, our earnings are not ours. Even while doing a Satyagraha Gandhiji never asked us to stop weaving our clothes. Satyagraha was meant not to cause any destruction of our lives or our property. Atmost that caused only a loss of income of the British government. But now this country is ours and all its property is ours. All our bandhs and strikes in the name of satyagraha are not true in the sense of modern India. What we are calling satyagraha in modern India is actually violence by our people against our own people.
Disrupting emergency services, causing loss to government money and killing people are the consequences of these strikes and bandhs. But who are losing? Those are our own people's lives and its our own property. But Satyagraha was supposed to be non-violent. Is Satyagraha inapproprqaite in modern sense?
In this modern India Satyagraha has a new meaning. It means to revolt without casing any damage to our people's lives or to our property. Then how can we actually practise it ?
Almost every emergency services have shifts and non working staff/shift can strike for their demands. But then you may ask how can it be successful and it is difficult. Yes it is difficult but Satyagraha was never easy even for its inventor himself but finally it was successful. And this is the only way. We can't let our people die at the hospitals because the government doesn't listen to our demands. It would be sheer negligence on our part to cause a loss in the income of our government because some politician doesn't listen to our woes.
So let's practise this Satyagraha again to make this country a much better place for all of us to live in.
Let peace prevail.