Sunday 5 June 2011

RAVAN REFUSES TO DIE

At Ramlila this year, Ravan refused to die.

The battle lines had been drawn. In the dead of the night they were hastily crossed.

It was an unthinkably shameful ambush: battalions of police swooping down on unarmed protesters, outnumbering them.

Elderly men were punched. Women and children were fiercely knocked to the ground. Baba Ramdev whisked away with brutal force. A bustling Maidan cleaned out in a Tiananmen-style raid in the cover of darkness. Only tanks didn’t roll in. Bullets didn’t fly. The intentions were no less evil. Ironic it almost coincided with the 22nd anniversary of the 6-4 crackdown.

The police state had struck back with vengeance. Was this needed?

Can a motley crowd, waving its arms and doing breathing exercises in the park, really be a threat to the world's biggest democracy?

Was there an Emergency? UPA, however, did feel besieged.

‘The government that can reach out, can also rein in.’

Yes Mr Sibal, now we know it can and that those who defy the regime will be dealt with sternly.

But let it be known that only a thug can reach out to a thug to strike a devil’s deal and then punch him to the ground if ‘talks fail’.

Civil people agree to disagree. Sending guerillas by the night is not the democratic way.

If Baba is guilty of misleading his followers, then the government is culpable for meeting him the halfway.

It must answer for putting up a grand pretence of engaging him, while loading up its cannon-size gun.

Instinct dictates: let's leave God out of it. For once let’s bring him in.

The Congress has said everything except that Ramdev must change his name to be a secular icon in the fight against corruption.

He’s a thug, a yoga merchant, a businessman remote-controlled by the RSS. It is just a way to pull saffron wool over the nation’s eyes. Ramdev’s robe is not the issue, it’s at best a distraction.

The issue is a colossal theft of national wealth and it's no longer part of the aam admi’s tolerance catalogue.

Read the writing on the wall: In 2014, if there is a choice between the likes of Baba Ramdev and Rahul Baba then it is going to be a little more complicated than mera wala saffron or green.

Esprit de l'escalier:

Kehne ki seema hoti hai,
sehne ki seema hoti hai.
Kuch mere bhi hai bas mein,
mera kuch soch samajh apmaan karo

1 comment:

  1. Where is the truth?
    I have always been really upset. Mahavira and Buddha in the stories read in childhood that set out in search of truth. He was interviewed from the truth. Then read somewhere, the truth is clear like a mirror.
    Now look here with a really out Anna Hazare. He raise voice against corruption, government scared (it was called), there were meetings, govt. made committee, whole country came in support of him, what was the outcome?? "Natiza wohi dhaak ke tin paat" Now Ramdev Baba took Huankar. Minister rushed meeting, letters were written, the Ram Lila has not closed yet, but changed in Mahabharata. But nobody could find the truth...
    What had to happen, but then again the question of truth stood. At Night Ravanas (policemen) came bear tear gas shells, Reporters were telling that's how clubs are being niece, women are repulsed, many injured. But the government has given statement that nobody was hurt, no one was injured.
    I was confused. Oh Well! I have Seen all night, the government could not see... why? Someone told that they came to do Yogasan, but they started to made political posture. Someone said that they have bad records, BABA is a cheater, some politician says him rascal, and some says thief and his all yoga's are wrong. They have been wrong from the beginning.
    But whole country came in support with Baba, the protest spread throughout the country, from Delhi's Rajghat to Gandhinagar, Bhopal, Patna, Lucknow, but everywhere, different colors and different costumes come true.
    Someone watched three million SMS, someone seen hero behind the screen.
    Channels were reporting next day about night’s truth, everybody was running here and there to hide himself from the police. Baba appeared on tv screen wearing white salwar kameez. Baba tried to run away from the police, police was saying baba has serious threat from the terrorist so they were trying to save Baba. But Baba give the statement he hide himslef in women’s group to save life from the police. I don’t know what the truth was.
    Naresh Kaushik

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