Naxals, Maoist and Menace

It all started with a bizarre incident of attacking the land lords at a small village in west benagl called naxalbari, a moment was born and the people associated with it were called naxals. It was a moment for poor against the atrocities of the "Government", a government supposed to be a collective efforts of rich and poor but unfortunately did not involve poor and tribals. Although the cause of naxals was angelic but the way employed by them was undemocratic and barbaric. Justifying naxals is like justifying phoolan devi for killing the thakurs.

The Maoist/naxal menace is increasingly becoming a big headache for the Indian government.Sometimes I feel that my country is envied by the gods, on one side we have Pakistan and on other side we have china, as if this was not enough the internal naxal problem which tantamount to terrorism is growing. The naxals are becoming bolder and determined every day.

The society usually looks up to its intellectuals for guidance, but in India the Intellectuals are always caught on a wrong foot, either it is the matter of hanging a terrorist, constructing a dam, testing nuclear weapons or the naxal violence. They always seems to be supporting the wrong side to be more precise always anti-government. I agree that the government has failed on many fronts and there are flaws in the system of democracy but it’s not beyond repair. The growing violence of naxals is a direct message to the government to start thinking about the tribals and poor people, building roads in Gadchiroli is as important as building a sea link in mumbai. Why is that the government always requires naxal attack to realize that the region lacks development, the government has become like a police force of hindi films, reaching the place after the actual action has taken place.

Naxals call themselves people's representatives but never hesitate to kill their own people if they violate their commands, they claim to struggle for the common man but take pride in beheading a cop who is also an another common man doing his duty and following the orders given to him. Naxals, Moists and Menace have become the synonyms of present times. Naxals should never forget that unlike Mao the greatest revolutionary Gandhi never used GUN to WIN.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

When I woke up on the afternoon of 15th august the flag was already hoisted at red fort, the national anthem already sung and host of patriotic movies were being screened on different channels. When I saw the video on a news channel I saw a smile on our prime minister's face when he was hoisting the flag, I'm not sure if he is happy because "HE" is hoisting the flag or because Indian flag is flying high, I am not questioning his patriotism but I am just thinking how many of us think in the second way. When Nehru hoisted the tricolour on 15th of august 1947 he was happy because the tricolour is being hoisted, but not because he was doing it. Our ancestors have given life and blood to see this day, few were unlucky and a few remained to see this day, the start point of we becoming our own masters. Its hard to imagine of those people who refused to hurt anyone to achieve their goal but in turn lost their life, its hard to imagine about a man who led these people, the man who started an experiment of non violence and was successful in it , a man whose words made millions to stand against a mighty empire. They all had had to pay a big prize, they did it only because they wanted us to breathe freely .

Today we are free to vote for any one and ironically our freedom is far stretched so the person who is voted to power is also free to work or abstain from working. We are free to defecate anywhere so millions of them use rail tracks as their toilets, we are free to sleep anywhere so millions of them sleep on footpath and authorities are free to rehabilitate them or to let them rot on footpath. The western world which once looked down upon India has become role model for many of us, I do believe that we need to learn a lot from the western world in terms of development but many of us blindly believe that westernization is modernization. We are blindly obsessed with western culture, a man in jeans is more respected than a man wearing dhoti, we have forgotten that mahatma used to wear just a dhoti, a journalist like Barkha Dutt is more interested in Obama's beer party than iftar party hosted by Vajpayee. People are coming in support of the gay rights just because western world has adopted it, people who are supporting gay rights say "look at canada, gay marriages are legal over there", I say look at Canada they have such a good economy and health care facilities why don't we debate on such a matter rather than debating on gay rights which is not natural and utter waste of time.More and more parents are speaking in English with their sons and daughters, a day might come when there will be no one left to speak Indian languages. The culture and tradition which was once our country's pride is vanishing just like the ice in Antartica,We are misusing the hard earned freedom, the freedom for which hundred's of Indian's have lost their lives, if we don't correct ourselves we will have to pay a bigger prize this time cause FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

The Reasons why I will not vote for UPA

1.A Pope dies and none of the christian countries in Europe declared a national mourning except Italy, but our country, a secular country observs national mourning. Why should my country's national flag fly at half mast when some religious leader is dead?.Will the UPA govt lead by Sonia Gandhi declare national mourning when any shankaracharya dies

2.Its obviously a shame on the NDA government failing to prevent an attack on the Indian Parliament. But not punishing the culprits is equally shameful. The government failed to set an example by not sending Afzal Guru to gallows. My heart cries in pain when I think about the soldiers who lost their lives protecting these Parliamentarians.

3.One fine day in 2006 the UPA govt decides to de freeze the London bank accounts of Mr.Quattrocchi the main accused in the Bofors scandal. When the matter goes to the supreme court, orders are given to the central government to freeze those bank accounts again, but it was too late as the had to freeze empty accounts

4.The loyalty of the UPA government towards Mr Q was immense. They proved it when the news of Mr.q's arrest in Argentina was not disclosed to the public for more than 15 days. However the govt did not had any intention to reveal it if it was not for an obedient man in MEA.

5.Mr Manmohan Singh who is claimed to be a descent man has time and again said that minorities have the first priority over the national resources, well what does he mean by that, does that mean that people from majority community are second class citizens and his party is said to be a secular party, is that what secularism means supporting minority and opposing majority?

6.Yet once again the UPA government under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi show there true colors, the CBI withdraws the 2-year-long Interpol red corner notice against Quattrocchi. Either Mr.Q is really honest or the Congress party has something to hide.

7.While the congress ruled state Maharashtra has anti terror law like MCOCA,the government sends recommendation to president not to pass GUJCOCA, a carbon copy of MACOCA. The government feels that some sections in the law are not in public interest and can be misused, but how can that be possible when there is a similar law in maharashtra? The law might be in public interest but definitely not in UPA's interest