Digging Aurangzeb: Bigot Genes or Bigotry Itself?

New India @Weak-sit Bharat2047 wants to dig up Aurangzeb—literally and metaphorically.
A bigot who died in 1707, whose successive generation was wiped out long ago.

But what exactly is being exhumed?
Bigotry—or something far deeper, embedded within the genetic code of ideological conflict itself? If India lost the war against the Mughals, will it also lose the war against microbes?Not all microbes practice Sulh-e-Kul like the romanticised Akbar. And if there is such a thing as a “bigot gene,” Akbar might have carried it too. Yet inside your body live nearly 38 trillion microbes—
more than all your own cells combined—quietly practising Sulh-e-Kul every single day.

The Era We Chose

Let us abandon pretence.

This is the Right-Wing Era.
The Nationalism Era.
The Loyalty Era.
The Modi-Yug.

Loyalty to nation.
Loyalty to gods.
Loyalty to culture.
Loyalty to heroes.

But LOL-yalty to self—the smallest and most neglected minority.

We speak endlessly of National Security and Internal Security,
yet the real war is not against people.

It is against pathogens.

This war does not recognise borders, ballots, or bullets.
Microbes do not negotiate.
They do not understand diplomacy.
They do not sign treaties.

They only evolve.

The Biology of Bigotry: An Epidemic Beyond Ideology

To kill pathogens—bacteria, viruses, archaic lifeforms—you need antibiotics.
Yes, the very ones you habitually skip, or outsource from a chemist like a sacred drug.

Your overconsumption and your underconsumption both benefit microbes.

Indians cannot outsource immunity through antibiotics alone.

Antibiotics are not sovereign.
They are rented for survival.

Real immunity demands participation, not nostalgia—
citizens who understand that the evergreen microbial threat cannot be countered by historical obsession.

History Is Not an Asset

We are devaluing our derivative existence by indexing it entirely to history.

But history, unlike currency, cannot inflate.
Inflation is a human construct.
The past is only a base year of analysis, not an asset to be manipulated for dopamine.

We mine the past for outrage—
this, that, who’s who, and death.

Yes, history repeats itself.
But repetition does not mean reenactment. It means avoiding the full foolishness of the past.

What Actually Inflates

What can inflate uncontrollably is a pandemic.
What can rise faster than an economic collapse is antimicrobial resistance.

Remember COVID-19?

Migrants.
Sushant Rajput.
Thali.
Gaali.
“WHO ne humari laga di.”

COVID never really left.
It is still flirting around—mutating, adapting, waiting.

Something like that can wipe out your entire existence.

Microbes do not accept mercy petitions—
not even if you pledge total LOL-yalty.

A War We Refuse to Fight

India’s obsession with ideological wars has drained its capacity to fight biological ones.

The microscopic world does not care for:religion, territory, rewritten textbooks

Classical.
Neoclassical.
Revisionist.
Sab dhare ke dhare reh jaayenge.

Microbes follow only one law:

Survival of the fittest.

And right now, they are fitter than us.

Defeat Is Failure to Adapt

If India truly understood its history, it would know this:

Defeat is not about losing battles.
It is about failing to adapt.

Cholera did not kill with swords—it killed with Vibrio cholerae.
Syphilis killed Napoleon Bonaparte, Christopher Columbus, and Benito Mussolini.

They lost at least one war.
Bonaparte and Benito lost two.

Yet we behave as if our greatest enemy lies under a tombstone,
not multiplying in the air we breathe.

Microbes are the ultimate capitalists.

They do not innovate.
They optimise. They exploit habits the way corporations do—
urbanisation, antibiotic misuse, weak public-health systems.

Do not take your damn cellphone to the toilet.
You may die from a microbe before the Instagram algorithm kills you.

Realistically, you will die because of both.

Diseases You Pretend Don’t Exist

Tuberculosis is still here.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis never left.

You might already have it.
It is not always “do hafte se zyada khansi.”
It can hide—even in your knee. Get yourself tested.

Kala-azar survives too—often dismissed because it sounds Urdu.
Sacred or suspicious, depending on allegiance.

Disease was documented linguistically, not scientifically—
an archaic form of R&D.

The Sushruta Samhita documented rabies centuries before Pasteur.
But who listens?

It is easier to hear prime-time shouting than public health warnings.

The Real Threat

The real threat is not Aurangzeb.
It is ignorance.

Antibiotic resistance is our mutiny waiting to happen.
Yet we revise history instead—
mistaking wars that ended centuries ago for those still being fought.

History is not the enemy.
Our refusal to learn from it is.

The Mughals ruled us once.
Bacteria and viruses have ruled us since the beginning of time.

They are the true emperors of Earth.

We—humans, Indians, nations—are merely subjects,
waiting for the next outbreak to remind us of our place.

Keep digging Aurangzeb’s grave.
The microbes are digging yours.

DVAND

Digging Aurangzeb