hindi → English transcript

When the institutions in your country that maintain checks start to crumble,

and maintain control over those in power,

once they crumble, those things will inevitably come back to bite you.

When the institutions of democracy, its checks and balances, start to falter,

whether it's regarding communal issues or the basic regulatory framework,

who will hold the government accountable if that system shuts down,

if courts become lax, your regulatory organizations, the Election Commission, if all these break down,

Today you might feel that it's not happening to me,

it's a historical pattern everywhere that it will inevitably happen to you too,

So today, there might be some Hindus who think, "Well, it's happening to *them*, isn't it?"

It's alright, the country is progressing otherwise,

The country can't progress when you're trying to advance by walking over the fires of each other's funeral pyres,

It's impossible for the flames of that fire not to reach you.