"Its (the Maoist consumption) is more Gandhian than any Gandhian...Should I write a play, I wonder- Gandhi Get Your Gun? Or will I be lynched." As Arundhati Roy asks this question what I feel like answering is yes you should be lynched, though at the cost of sounding highly autochratic/non democratic. She is the Human Rights champion...the god mother (maybe) for the black sheeps (read Afzal Gurus and the naxalites..ofcourse she thinks otherwise) but i sometimes feel is she being paid to be the Mao mouthpiece. It is highly ironical that right after 76 CRPF jawans are killed in a well planned and efficeintly manouvered ambush she blames the governement for deploying forces in that region. Yet again when a bus load of passengers are brutally murdered she is up in arms against the government about government officials using public transport in the war zone (is there a charter anywhere that says officials from the govt. are not allowed to use public transport as it is highly risky for the local public in naxal infesetd areas) what logic...
She calls herself a human rights activist yet there was not even an ouch from her when the CRPF jawans were gunned down..were they not humans or did they not have a right to live because they belonged to the government machinery but when a maosit is killed anywhere bam she is up with the human rights flag. When 44 people are killed its allright because even if there were naxals behind it, it is the doing of the government as there were THREE govt employees travelling from that bus (who by the way should die as per Ms Roy because they do not support the Maoist cause).
The illogicity of her arguments leaves most of us confused. She was Ok with the Parliament house being blown up and innocent security gurds losing their lives. She did not have any issues about the lives of the entire Indian political top brass put to risk by this brazen attack but when Afzal Guru is awarded a death sentence after a fair trial she is up there again with her flag.I wont be surprised if she demands a mercy petition for Kasab tommorrow.
All this in the name of democracy and for the most undemocratic lot;people who use guns indiscriminately against poor citizens to gain an absolute control. Why does Arundhati Roy with her fashionable Booker prize winning sophistication have a soft corner for these trigger happy idiots or as PC says it is almost fashionable to support the rebels. What is their cause anyway?? They are anti anything which talks of development for the fear of losing control. If they want those regions to flourish (that they say is their cause) why do they blow up schools, why do they not allow roads to be built, why dont they allow fair elections. They are not by any measure less than those border infiltrating terrorists who cross border to spread terror, these naxals on the other hand spread terrror and then run away across the Bangladeshi fence.
Why is it ok for government to use NSG commandoes against the 26/11 terrorists but not use army or IAF against the naxals. The argument is should a country use its forces against its own civilians but are they acting as poor civilians. Their ways of killing people is not civil, the way they terrorise the local population, live in their houses and eat their food is not civil and the way they kill their own jawans is certainly not civil.
The likes of Arundhati Roy find it glamorous to wine and dine with the comerades and then wrtite essays but they have nothing to do whatsoever with civil rights or human rights.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Yes you are guilty...Really???
People might hang me for saying this but i feel sad and even sorry for Ajmal Kasab.Yes he killed 7 people and yes he waged a war against India but it was not his war. He just fell prey to temptation and probably a lot of brainwashing. The same kind of brainwashing which led a seemingly educated engineer to ram an aircraft in the World Trade Center.
Indians will feel happy and satisfied if he is sentenced to death. Infact keeping him alive wont help either because that again will burn holes in the Indian exchequer. But the point is what will his death or even Afzal Guru's death for that matter achieve. Dhananjoy was given a death sentence in a rape case but did that stop rape incidents across the country?
Ajmal Kasab will be killed. That is his fate. Now either he will be hanged or if he is awarded anything less than a death penality, will be 'encountered' by some Daya Nayak kind of cop who will feel cheated by the Indian Judiciary. In any case it will be in the interest of India to hang him else we may have another IC 814 soon, with kasab's bosses demanding his return for the some 200 innocent lives onboard an aircraft parked 'safely' in some hostile nation.
Though I have new found respect for the police now. They have shown exemplary restraint by keeping Ajmal Kasab alive at any cost (Rs 31 crores/month). It would have been painful for them to keep the same man safe and healthy who killed or was responsible for the death of so many of their own colleagues and so easy for them to kill him in a fit of rage.
Whatever the case may be the question remains the same even if all the 26/11 terrorist had been caught alive and tried and then sentenced to death would it have solved India's problem. Would it have ensured that there will be no more 26/11s in the country. We still would have been kowtowing before the US, and instead of doing what we are supposed to do in such a situation still be trying to convince US that it(26/11) indeed happend and it was done by Pakistan.
Indians will feel happy and satisfied if he is sentenced to death. Infact keeping him alive wont help either because that again will burn holes in the Indian exchequer. But the point is what will his death or even Afzal Guru's death for that matter achieve. Dhananjoy was given a death sentence in a rape case but did that stop rape incidents across the country?
Ajmal Kasab will be killed. That is his fate. Now either he will be hanged or if he is awarded anything less than a death penality, will be 'encountered' by some Daya Nayak kind of cop who will feel cheated by the Indian Judiciary. In any case it will be in the interest of India to hang him else we may have another IC 814 soon, with kasab's bosses demanding his return for the some 200 innocent lives onboard an aircraft parked 'safely' in some hostile nation.
Though I have new found respect for the police now. They have shown exemplary restraint by keeping Ajmal Kasab alive at any cost (Rs 31 crores/month). It would have been painful for them to keep the same man safe and healthy who killed or was responsible for the death of so many of their own colleagues and so easy for them to kill him in a fit of rage.
Whatever the case may be the question remains the same even if all the 26/11 terrorist had been caught alive and tried and then sentenced to death would it have solved India's problem. Would it have ensured that there will be no more 26/11s in the country. We still would have been kowtowing before the US, and instead of doing what we are supposed to do in such a situation still be trying to convince US that it(26/11) indeed happend and it was done by Pakistan.
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