Although India claimed “independence” on the 15th August 1947, one day after Pakistan, but freedom is very different from “independence”. There is no freedom for the ordinary man in India: not freedom from the govt, nor freedom from want, nor freedom of expression, not freedom of thought, nor freedom to aspire to greatness, nor freedom from the ravages of endemic corruption. India today is an explosive amalgam of Hindu Right-wing politics, organised religion, and powerful capitalist leaders actively collaborating, shielding the perpetrators then re-inventing their game to pocket further political and economical gains. This form of democracy is far more dangerous than a true model of communist govt where people would have come first. One example of the these capitalists destroying livelihood of ordinary hard working people of India is the industrial giant Tata who has its fingers in every possible industry that it can afford to buy, a little bit like the British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, but with a little difference that Indian Govt itself enforces what ever an industrialist wants to do to the ordinary civilians, in order to make financial gains, even when it means playing with the livelihood of its own people who may be against the move. Singur plant failure is a prime example where many lives destroyed, many farmers ordered to “sell” their land for peanuts, all for a promise of jobs by Tata and backed by the capitalist govt. The situation got worse as some farmers had to resort to the one and only solution left in the “democratic” India, and a path taken by many, that is suicide.
Despite the obvious economic growth, how possibly can any one call India democratic when, only in the last few years, there are over a hundred thousand farmer suicides and a hundred thousand families devastated? These numbers still don’t represent the millions others who are currently living at the edge of survival, away from the gaze and concern of the growing middle classes.
Politicians in India are still using the age old method of “Divide and Rule”. Once Indians are outside India, they shout loudest about the discrimination they receive from the other nations, for their colour, religion, language, accent, body smell, and head movements, but when they are on their own soil, they themselves continue to discriminate in their own pathetic ways. If its not the religion, then its the region, if its not the region, then it is the caste, if not the caste, then its the class. If they have not learnt to tolerate their own fellow Indians in the past hundreds of years, living door to door, then there is clearly little hope that this Hindu majority nation will ever be able to accept any one else, who differs from them in caste, colour, origin, language, religion, region, or class. The politicians are successfully taking advantage of this ignorance of the masses because masses equals votes. The State seems so feeble that frankly, it can be termed “a failing State”. But unfortunately time is running out quickly, and the problems only seem to be rising, making it hard for an ordinary Indian to be able to breath, think, speak, work, own, and make his own decisions unless he belongs to the “masses”.
India has been going through tough times recently. With Govt trying to oppress Kashmiris fighting for independence in the North, Khalistan movement in the west, having to deal with Tamils in the South, Gujrat riots, Hindu Christian Violence, and Hindu-Hindu (Untouchables) violence in Orissa, and the recent attacks in Mumbai state that left 200 or so dead, many more injured, now Assam is increasingly becoming more of a problem child for this Hindu majority country. The very future existence of this so called “democratic” India is now in question. And most of it is from the self-inflicted wounds on its minorities by the Hindu fundamentalist hard liners that seem to steer the govt towards a very dark future. This failure of the current leadership may cause India to almost cease to exist in the coming few years.
Today India, “the failed democracy” was once again a target of rebel forces in its eastern state of Assam. These blasts seem to be becoming a common thing for Indians now including the one reported today (on 1st of Jan), the last one on the 1st of December and the one before, which seems to be mis-timed by the rebels, as it was at the end of October, not really 1st of November!
1st of January: Blasts in India’s Guwahati (Assam) Kill 5 People, Injure 31
By M.C. Govardhana Rangan and Jay Shankar
Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — At least five people were killed and 31 injured in three bomb blasts in Guwahati in India’s northeastern state of Assam, a government official said.
The rebel United Liberation Front of Asom, or ULFA, is suspected to be linked to the blasts, Rajiv Kumar Bora, commissioner & secretary in Assam’s home and political department, said by telephone from Guwahati.
One bomb went off near a crowded market place injuring 12 people, while a second exploded near a hospital in the city injuring four, police inspector, B. Phukon, said earlier.
More than 60 people were killed and about 300 injured in 12 bombings across the state in October. The police said at the time they were investigating whether the attacks were carried out jointly by the banned ULFA and Islamist militants.
“We have been taking action against ULFA for insurgent activities and in the last few weeks have seized a lot of bombs and weapons,” Bora said. “The police have been able to identify the people behind this and we will capture them.”
The blasts occurred on a day when India’s Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was slated to visit the state.
Here are the details of the last attack in the very same town
1st of December: Ten wounded in train bomb blast in India Assam state
Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:58pm EST
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 10 people were wounded after a bomb ripped through a passenger coach of a train in India’s troubled state of Assam, officials said on Tuesday.
“So far we have information of ten people wounded, two of them are in serious condition,” Jayanta Sarma, spokesman for the railways in Assam, told Reuters.
No one has claimed responsibility yet.
Separatist rebels are often blamed for attacks in India’s Assam state, a remote region riddled by insurgencies over the last few decades.
But coordinated bomb blasts in Assam in October, which killed at least 77 people, were blamed on Islamist militants from neighboring Bangladesh in league with separatists.
The attack below in this series of “shaken not stirred” India seem to be close to 1st of November, but not so accurate!
Scores killed as bomb blasts rip through Assam
A series of coordinated blasts ripped through India’s troubled north-eastern Assam state, killing more than 60 people and leaving at least 300 injured - a bombing frenzy that caused an angry backlash among locals, who rioted in the streets.
About a dozen bombs went off within 15 minutes of each other in crowded markets late yesterday morning in Guwahati, Assam’s state capital, and three other towns in the state.
Officials said that 61 people were killed in the blasts with 25 people dead in Guwahati. Eleven were killed in Kokrajhar district and 12 more died in the town of Barpeta. Another 70 are believed to be in “critical condition”.
In a serious breach of security, the largest blast was a few hundred metres from the state’s main administrative building in Guwahati, home to the offices of the state’s chief minister, Tarun Gogoi. Television channels showed people lying on the streets, their clothes soaked in blood. Bystanders dragged the wounded to cars to take to hospitals, while police covered the burned remains of the dead with white sheets, leaving them in the street.
An immediate curfew was announced in Guwahati as some locals, who blamed officials for lax security, rioted, attacking police vehicles and public buses.
Dozens of militant separatist groups are active in India’s north-east. Yesterday there was speculation that the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), fighting for an independent homeland for the state’s 26 million people, was behind the attacks. But in an email from Ulfa to TV stations the group denied responsibility.
Earlier this month members of Assam’s largest tribe, the Bodo, clashed with local Muslims in murderous riots that left 53 people dead.
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ReplyDelete“Land of the pure” was a bad idea to start with. Muslims without petroleum mines are screwed. And seems like the world doesn’t really care for the brown skinned Islam followers that much anyway!! . They have actually started marching back in time. Most educated Indian muslims thank God everyday that their ancestors decided to stay instead of going to the “utopian” land of the “pure”.
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Democracy and free speech: Was it not the Indian media exposing Gujarat Riots (Tehelka), Samjhautha (NDTV). The world (including Pak) didnt give rats a** before this exposure and now use it as evidence. We know what s*** is and you dont have to prove whats proven by our own media.
TATA: Should we lable this company as a terrorist organization just because they follow the very basics of Buisness (make the company profitable). I tell you again broaden your horizon… Do you even know the Singur statistics? In case you are too lazy to research let me do the needful. Most parts of Singur is dependent on rain for cultivation the Bengal government sold the land (1000 acres) to Tata for the Nano project ( I dont want to elaborate on this ground breaking car). The site was chosen for its proximity to the coast, railway and made good sense. 2,000 of the 12,000 (less than 20% I REPEAT) displaced farmers opposed land acquisation and since we live in a democratic nation, Tata inspite of being close to 95% to start production withdrew from the area completely. Majority of the people supported the car project which will reflect on Mrs. Mamata Bannerji’s election report card the next time Bengal goes to polls. Finally who bailed TATA for this prestigious project bound to put India on the Global automobile map Mr.Modi. People of Gujarat and Mr. Modi helped clear the project in less than 15 days which took the Communist Bengal government 3 years to clear.
Failed democracy due to unrest in some regions, we live in a democratic country let people express themselves rather than subdue their very basic right of speech. If we were to go the complete military (as Pak is so inclined to) way these problems would still exist but never make it to the media. THIS IS TRUE DEMOCRACY AND AT ITS BEST.