'പ്രതികരണ ശേഷിയുള്ള ഒരു സമൂഹത്തിനു മാത്രമേ കെട്ടുറപ്പുള്ള ഒരു ഭരണകൂടത്തെ സൃഷ്ടിക്കാന് കഴിയൂ. അതിക്രമങ്ങള്ക്കെതിരെ പരാതി പറയുകയല്ല വേണ്ടത്, ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യണം, പ്രതികരിക്കണം. ഊര്ധ്വശ്വാസം വലിക്കുന്ന ഒരു സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ മോചനത്തിന് വേണ്ടി മരിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നാല് മരിക്കണം, കൊല്ലേണ്ടി വന്നാല് കൊല്ലണം.'
'തലപ്പാവ്', മധുപാല്
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
The truth is here.....On to another drama by the Central Govt!!
A few among the several points why the Naxals and Maoists deserve support:
* If the tribals have taken up arms, they have done so because a government which has given them nothing but violence and neglect, now wants to snatch away the last thing they have—'their land'.
* Take an example, the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa have been sold for their bauxite. For the people, their god’s been sold. How much, would god go for if he was Ram, Allah or Christ? ('Vedanta'- A MNC eyed upon these hills, is one of the biggest mining corporations in the world and is owned by Anil Aggarwal, the Indian billionaire who lives in London in a mansion that once belonged to the Shah of Iran)
* The Schedule V of the Constitution, which provides dalits protection & disallows alienation of their land, now seems just window-dressing, a bit of make-up.
* They just want their land to be protected. The centre's war against Maoists is to rob tribals of the only dignity left with them-THEIR LAND, and hand it over to big corporate sharks.
* For the dalits, the mountain is still a living deity, but for the corporation, it’s just a cheap storage facility. The bauxite will have to come out of the mountain. Who cares for those poor people eh? Then what else can they do other than taking up arms?
(To get the bauxite out of the mountain, the iron ore from the forest, India needs to militarise. To militarise, it needs an enemy. The Maoists are that enemy. How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?)
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* If the tribals have taken up arms, they have done so because a government which has given them nothing but violence and neglect, now wants to snatch away the last thing they have—'their land'.
* Take an example, the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa have been sold for their bauxite. For the people, their god’s been sold. How much, would god go for if he was Ram, Allah or Christ? ('Vedanta'- A MNC eyed upon these hills, is one of the biggest mining corporations in the world and is owned by Anil Aggarwal, the Indian billionaire who lives in London in a mansion that once belonged to the Shah of Iran)
* The Schedule V of the Constitution, which provides dalits protection & disallows alienation of their land, now seems just window-dressing, a bit of make-up.
* They just want their land to be protected. The centre's war against Maoists is to rob tribals of the only dignity left with them-THEIR LAND, and hand it over to big corporate sharks.
* For the dalits, the mountain is still a living deity, but for the corporation, it’s just a cheap storage facility. The bauxite will have to come out of the mountain. Who cares for those poor people eh? Then what else can they do other than taking up arms?
(To get the bauxite out of the mountain, the iron ore from the forest, India needs to militarise. To militarise, it needs an enemy. The Maoists are that enemy. How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people?)
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