WHATEVER YOU BUILD, THEY WILL TAKE

Why politicians, policies, and power always consume what citizens create

🔸 INTRODUCTION

If you build a house, they’ll bring a road through it.

If you build a farm, they’ll zone it for industry.

If you build a school, they’ll force their syllabus in.

If you build a culture, they’ll turn it into a vote bank.

If you build peace, they’ll inject fear.

And if you build freedom, they’ll wrap it in regulation and break it.

This is not a dramatic complaint. This is a repeating pattern in every village, city, and state in India.

Behind every policy, every scheme, every law — lies the same motive:

"If we didn’t build it, we will find a way to control it."

What citizens build with labor, love, and patience —

politicians, planners, and officials eventually claim, regulate, or ruin.

🛖 1. HOMES AND LAND

Thousands of families have built homes with earnings across decades.

No help from the government. No subsidy. No support.

They cleared the land, made mud bricks, harvested timber, and lived quietly.

Then one day:

A smart city road plan cuts through their compound.

The municipal zone changes — their village becomes “urban.”

A survey is announced — and suddenly, the land is “encroached.”

Someone with political links gets it reclassified and resold.

Your house is no longer your home — it’s just pending litigation.

🌾 2. FARMS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

You shift from chemical to organic.

You grow your own vegetables.

You save seeds.

You stop depending on market prices.

But now:

Government only gives subsidies for urea, DAP, tractors, drip systems — not cow dung.

Your desi seed is not certified — so your produce can’t be sold in official mandis.

You’re told to register your farm to “get benefits” — which invites inspection, tax, and interference.

Water pipelines are diverted to industrial parks — your well dries up.

So even if you eat less, use less, and waste nothing —

they’ll still punish your independence.

📚 3. EDUCATION

You take your child out of school.

You teach them math through farming.

You teach them history through temples and local stories.

They’re sharp, grounded, and happy.

But:

You’re pressured to enroll for Aadhar-linked attendance.

Neighbors say, “No board exams? What will she become?”

Government announces National Curriculum Framework — even for homeschoolers.

You're told education is a right, but the format is fixed.

They won’t help you teach.

But they’ll make sure you can’t teach freely.

🏞️ 4. COMMON RESOURCES

You revive a lake.

You clean a forest path.

You plant trees. You build check dams.

But:

An MLA visits, takes credit, and puts his photo on it.

A real estate group fences the edge of the revived lake — saying it’s part of a “project.”

Forest officials file a case: “Unauthorized activity on government land.”

You restored the land.

But it’s not yours to protect.

It’s only yours to leave.

🏛️ 5. CULTURE AND COMMUNITY

You run a theatre group.

You organise traditional food fairs.

You bring elders to teach native songs and local languages.

But:

Your budget is ignored in the cultural grants — it went to someone with contacts.

A political party “invites” you to endorse their event — or lose visibility.

If your show becomes popular — it’s “appropriated” into a govt event, watered down, and branded.

You built a culture — but they hold the microphone.

🧾 6. MONEY AND DEPENDENCE

You save, avoid loans, live simply.

You use cash, buy from farmers, and need no bank schemes.

Now:

UPI becomes mandatory.

Cash is limited.

Banks push you to “link everything” — or block your account.

You’re told to take loans to grow, or you’re “under-utilizing your potential.”

They don’t want you stable.

They want you indebted, enrolled, and dependent.

🧍‍♂️ 7. THE INDIVIDUAL

You eat millets.

Sleep early.

Work with hands.

Raise your children without screens.

Read books. Avoid apps.

Mind your own business.

But the system still wants you:

Vaccinated, tracked, documented, visible.

Enrolled into every welfare scheme so that you’re counted.

Taxed even for the soil you live on.

Conditioned to believe freedom is irresponsibility.

You’re not allowed to just live.

You must participate.

Because if you're self-reliant — you’re out of their market.

🔚 CONCLUSION

Politicians don’t build.

They inherit control over what others built.

And the system is not interested in what you create —

It only wants to know how it can regulate it, tax it, or take credit for it.

You build a forest. They cut a road.

You build a movement. They fund it, dilute it, and own it.

You build silence. They bring noise.

You build meaning. They bring branding.

That’s why your only protection is invisibility and decentralization.

Stay small. Stay uncounted. Stay untitled.

What they cannot see, they cannot claim.

Because in India, if you build anything beautiful, useful, or independent —

the system will come for it.