India: The World’s Biggest Democracy and the Man It Forgot

I followed every rule. I believed every word of the Constitution. I built, created, and fought through law—and still became invisible inside the system I loved.

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I grew up believing India was not just a country but a covenant—a living promise that justice, equality, and human dignity could coexist.
I memorised Articles the way others memorised prayers.
I believed that if you walked the straight line of the Constitution, the Republic would protect you.

So I built my world around that belief.
I registered companies, filed taxes, created jobs, launched social projects, wrote petitions instead of protests.
Everything I did was within the book.
Because I trusted the book.

And then my kingdom burned—brick by brick, betrayal by betrayal.
While I was building, they were taking.
When I cried for help, the system looked away.
And when I refused to give up, it sent me a summons.

That was the moment I learned that democracy doesn’t only collapse in coups.
Sometimes it just stops recognising its own believers.

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The Ghost in the Republic

I kept waiting for someone—anyone—to ask: “How did this happen?”
But the silence was louder than any verdict.
Friends ghosted. Officials shrugged.
The same institutions that taught me to trust procedure reduced me to paperwork they could ignore.

I didn’t want revenge.
I wanted to prove that India’s dream still worked—that law could defend the ordinary man who dared to think differently.
Instead, I became the ghost of that dream: walking through courts, corridors, and conversations where everyone swore allegiance to justice but no one saw me.

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What Democracy Doesn’t Tell You

No one warns you that obedience can break you faster than rebellion.
No one tells you that empathy, when unreciprocated, becomes self-harm.
And no one admits that the “largest democracy in the world” runs on selective vision—
it sees you when you shine, not when you suffer.

I’m still proud to be Indian.
But pride hurts when it’s unreturned.
I believed democracy was a mirror; turns out it was a window—and I was always on the outside looking in.

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A Lesson for the Next Believer

If you ever decide to fight for something in this country, remember this:

Law is a shield, but only if you also learn to hold it.
Justice isn’t blind—it’s just easily distracted.
And faith without self-protection will turn you into a cautionary tale.

I don’t hate India.
I just wish it loved its dreamers half as much as they love it.

—David Carmel Alex
Founder, Fusion Civilization Research Institute