What the fidelity! The ULFA Chapter today

 SHAME SHAME GUWAHATIANS!
The same venue where a huge bombardment on the 30th of October 2009 perished several lives dumping humanity into the folds of faith, it is the CJM court of Guwahati. Today the 5th day of December 2009 in the evening hours some undisciplined crowd gathered at the same venue for a glimpse of those ULFA leaders, which the Bangladesh Govt. had handed over to India, to be produced in the court. Aurobindo Rajkhowa and his disciples. Should have seen the push and pull in the crowd as though some legendary personalities were about to step down from a private chopper. Alas! This was it, a mini bus carrying all these extremist but heroes. For once I thought that the crowd was to mock at them for their shameful acts of killing hundreds of people but, yes it’s a but, from the crowd where gestures cheering the presence of these arrested extremists “ULFA ZINDABAD” I was horrified to see and hear this! Can’t believe it, somewhere during the past several years, directly or indirectly each one’s near and dear one’s have been victim of such mortifying attacks.Yet why the crowd still loves them, or were they the manipulated crowd gathered by the friends and relatives of these unscrupulous elements? I could even see them bestowed with the Gamusa as a mark of respect… eeeeks! They still deserve it!!! What is happening? How can anyone forget that Guwahati which had been reddened one year back? Such is the empathy of the people and to top it look at the proud passes of Rajkhowa, who clearly stated that they were not here to surrender but have been arrested and with handcuffs peace talks were next to impossible… WOW!!!! This is why they are heroes. Now India needs someone as hard as them to tackle the upcoming situations, someone to suppress this ardent attitude. Of course those that have suffered huge losses at their hands, the general people want early peace, we want that when we go out of our houses, we return safe. Hence will it be worth to express my concern to the Govt. not to delay with the possible outcome?

IRRATIONAL VERSION OF DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

India’s democratic period is short lived. It begins at the commencement of any election, survives through the voting process and ends there itself, doesn’t even last till the results are declared.

WE voted you for your promises, we chose you because we believe in you. You promised to make our lives better, you promised a beautiful India for us, BUT TODAY I HAD TO PEEP BACK INTO MY DICTIONARY TO CHECK OUT THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY. Today, I again read the literary connotation of this term, tightly packed inside the pages. I feel since many years democracy has been suppressed inside the D order of dictionary and what we have survived with till date is just a mirror image of it. Wanted to check my thought process on this but, from time to time autocracy in diplomatic formats have appeared from the bags of almost all the political parties who corresponds to the wider practice of equality. Do I need to name a few? BJP, RJD, MNS or Shiv Sena (I think same stuff), Trinamool… ok, these are only examples. Not even scholars and sports personnel have spared themselves, no wonder the sports authority of India is studded with questions about the gloomy sporting spirit of Indian players!

Think about the scholars of yesteryears who had the mighty power of the pen to bring in the best out of those hammering days of British Raj. And today the blessed brains have allowed the political bug to nibble them to insanity. These are dignitaries of India but no moral can be drawn from their methodology, for today politics is the prop of the criminals of yesterday too. Wherever opportunity flashes, it seeps its way to a battleground, be it the parliament or the news channel office, both of which are exemplary structures of democracy. The recent uprisings in both these houses have mocked the very foundation of democratic India. It has gone beyond shame and how happy must be the ghosts of those that made India bleed during the freedom struggle. The irony is that politicians are quarreling, scholars are outlining logic and the criminals have become mentors of the state of affairs, tables turned!

Freedom of Media is shaken many a times or always. Questions and debates are conducted yet the participants or the host of such shows have no idea that they are only giving smiles to those who love an autocratic system in the veil of Democracy. I LOL away such shows where editing sieves away the democratic content from the shows.

Here we experience Democracy in the format of BY the People, FOR THE POLITICIANS & OF THE POLITICIANS. Now what obstacles are on the way for full practice of democracy in India? This will continue to be debated now and then without intimidating the autocrats of the season. Globalization, nuclear power etc. are other side effects showered upon us. I wonder, with this mirage of democratic syndrome, how far India can survive the blows from China and Pakistan or for that matter any other country.

If I have to conclude, then I need to continue telling that India is yet to experience democracy. Give us the democratic aura even after the elections gets over.