Friday, November 27, 2009

Crisis in our backyard - "Shantham prati Shanthayam"

By Abhishek Joshi:

Ideological upbringings have one favour to afford to the other. You could just stare at other’s logic without having to count your own since the difference itself is negated with an expression of the other being wrong. That becomes the doctrine, and deeds, actions are all counter to what has been taught and preached as a reflex. So whatever is being said, to prove a counter point simply pick up holes and present the opposite with counting your instances of your expressions, nay, ideology. This is what is being pushed hard as defensive and counter defensive and the feeble voice of justice, reason and existence is all need to pick their sides if need to be heard. If you do not have an ideology of your own, shut up.

Results - recently launched Para military offensive as Operation Green Hunt” in the Dandakarnaya region in addition to already existing ‘Purification hunt’ (Salwa Judam, in local gondi dialect) and associations for collective remonstration suppressed with their voices to even to come closer to the democratic right of participating against the state apparatus. There are no sides of oppression, exploitation, displacement and misery. The only side which is not seen is being lumped together with an ideology to suit pervert interests. Its easy to stake a claim from the central podium, specially when you have the right to get the “home” in order by asking not to support this perpetrated violence on the people but what bleeds contempt for any normal concerned citizen is even trying to get them to address the “collateral damage’’ this would expose the entire populace in effect to. The justice, equality, fraternity is to be meant in actions and not laid bare to a military offensive dubbed as war to be fought within with all might of one lop sided sinister methodology. In effect as reported by Hindustan Times, few weeks back by not less than the rank of a senior bureaucrat of this “Green Hunt” to be the biggest land grab of the world, if followed in toto by the script. Development at the cost of displacement.

No one is supporting violence. No one is a brown cheeked guy, sitting in the warm confines of the their living rooms and reading classics on class struggle and romanticizing the adventure of being donning the other side of the military uniform, so no one needs to be told as well to “support someone else war”. If there are stories of one side of violence, equally thick dossier is being carried by them as well to swell their ranks of battle gear and caught in the slugfest is the truth behind these circumstances.

"Shantham prati Shanthayam" or Tit for Tat policy would breed more violence. The wide gap in governance all these years has bred the black head of insurgency to rise to this level. You can not sow new seeds unless you have harvested your crop. We are harvesting what had been sown 63 years back; we would for sure reap what we choose to sow now.

Yet time to pick options.