Homage to martyrs and a few
lessons
(One)
This evening , when I begin
to write this, clouds remain crimson, with a streak
of black and grey, reminding us of the flames
and smoke, that haunted our nation during the
final days of the beautiful snowy November in
the metropolis of Mumbai, the cute, dear city
of Indians here abroad.
This is 6Th December, the day that spread insult
on our nation, too, with the debris of an old
structure heaped beyond repair, by the so-called
worthy patriots from within our own country.
This is the day on which one of the founders of
the secular republic dies, Dr. Ambedkar.
We stood shocked for moment, and
only for a moment; we remained silent for a moment
, and only for a moment, incapable to speak or
act. When Ambedkar died, some of us lamented,
some others took it as a salvation from a nuisance,
because for them the man who was the main architect
of the constitution always said about the dalits
and their salvation.
When the medieval architecture of the Babri Masjid
was left to shambles, we stood introspecting;
we asked all to introspect and get an answer.
But in Mumbai, our brave soldiers, as ever, defended
the city, the land, the nation and the people.
So friends, we dedicate this evening
to our great martyrs that laid down their lives
for the nation, with no greed or mood, with the
sole thought of protecting the soul of the nation.
India is a wonderful country, facing attacks with
calm, and getting out of the menace always; India
was evolved as a result of a long drawn out freedom
struggle extending over two centuries. On the
15th of August were born two nations, bleeding,
one remaining secular and democratic, the other
born and remaining on the foundations of religion.
The struggle was broken, the dream was shattered.
Still I with all humility must say that the terrorists
who wreak menace on Mumbai must have realized
before hand that they would not win a battle within
India. There was a time when Washington was taken
by the enemies of the USA. Even that was not possible
to the terrorists. They came desperately as mercenaries.
And a lot is going to be heard of them in future.
(two)
The Prime Minister of India has
great consistency. He has remained, he remains,
and he will remain a sincere friend of the United
States of America. Whatever be the odds against
our country, he is consistent in this particular
matter, let alone other things. The calamity at
Mumbai seemed to convince him that he is wrong,
the recession seemed to teach him that he is wrong,
but, no, he is a consistent person, not because
he thinks that consistency is a political quality,
not because he is indifferent to national problems.
He thinks sincerely that his stance would salvage
India. Yeah, it is neither his consistency nor
hias scrupulousness that is to blame, but the
class attitude that is to blame.
Let us see: after the terrible
crisis began to show its ugly teeth in the open,
even the Prime Minister of India for a time was
forced to admit that it is due to globalization;
but the very next moment he clarified that this
should have been foreseen; it is globalization
process that has suffered due to lack of foresight,
neither nations nor peoples. What a grand generosity,
I would not say deliberately that it is grand
slavery. He has found out the reason behind the
financial crisis. He knew, he declares, the globalizations
would have effects like this, but men and women
the world over should have foreseen this; as they
did not do so, globalization has begun to face
some setback.
Globalization and liberalization made everything
in life and politics and economics a private affair,
armaments are made privately, arsenals are created
privately, even film actors could buy guns and
keep it under their beds to mollify their fear
of being attacked. The bloody fools do not know
that it is not cinema, and a weapon under the
bed is a weapon for the thief or terrorist whoever
that may be. These things, licentious as they
are, need not have license from the authorities,
because it is the laissez-faire of the globalization
period, no normal govt has any right to drill
into the private affair of the poor capitalists,
and carpet baggers, that is no govt has the right
to interfere in economic production, distribution
and circulation. So, carpet baggers would producer
armaments, and there are sufficient buyers, like
the ones sponsored by the United States. Georgia
would and could but them if it is in the interests
of the United States; Chechnians could and would
buy them for the same reason. Likewise all terrorist
groups of the world are a creation of the United
States which deserted these groups as and when
the interests of the hegemonic powers was served.
So, ships are ready for sale,
just go and buy them; or ask a Somalian band to
pirate one of them; armaments ready for sale in
the market, RDX is ready in the market, explosives
are ready, AK 47 original or duplicate is ready(
if you want the duplicate of any product, the
real brand company is ready to produce duplicates
also); just go and buy. Then go to the indicated
targets or taught up destinations, fill in your
minds all virulence the world, hit at them with
all venom of your mind, and kill as many people
as possible. Well, India is the place of Gandhi
whom Indians worshipfully call Mahatma, go to
the place he was born in, Porbandar, a harbor,
then ransack the running vehicles, from what ever
hideout you can choose, and then again go to the
economic capital of India. When the NDA was ruling
India was shining, of course in the lustrous history
of getting hostages released compensated by the
release terrorists including Masuds and such other
persons. And now, when the UPA is ruling, cities
after cities are destroyed, terrorists unleash
their hits on cities and parliament, the outer
lands and hinterlands of India. On the one side
goons destroy houses of worship and go scot-free
in the name of nationalism and national politics.
On the other side, terrorists come from the back
and hit at us. And the people are always assured
by the Prime Minister that they would be protected.
See what happened: people in coats and suits and
with lumps of money and bunches of credit cards
can get admitted everywhere. They are well-off,
they are worthies. The rich and wealthy have entry
into any parlour or any hotel. Suppose, even after
warning from sleuths, an ordinary citizen had
crossed any wire or violated any rule, he would
certainly behind the bars. Where is Ratan Tata
now? He has admitted to the media that sufficient
caution was given to his establishment by the
sleuths, his hotel had observed utmost care, but
they had broken of the strictures immediately
before the attack. Why did this gentleman and
his hotel revoke the restrictions? On what ground?
When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, we in these
columns had stated that she was killed at the
instigation of the United States of America. After
Smt. Gandhi of India, she was the most influential
politician in the bourgeois democracy of Asia.
It was not an insinuation, we were convinced by
lessons from history that it was the United States
of America. The work was done clean and neat,
and who else but the US imperialists and its espionage
could perform these crimes with such perfection
as this? The whole Bhutto family was wiped off
from the face of the earth, now Pakistan is in
the hands of a chocolate boy who can be used by
the imperialists in any way they liked.
Likewise , we are perfectly sure that the beneficiaries
of this terrorist attack on Mumbai are the imperialists.
In the back of the back of the back of what happened
in Mumbai, the imperialist hands can be seen,
although in the peripheries they are invisible
and they can act angels Condalissa Rice putting
orders to Pakistan to do this, to do as if she
were in a restaurant ordering menu. After Manmohan
Singh and George Bush signed the 123 agreement
much to the chagrin of the people of India, several
incidents at the national and international levels
showed that water was flowing against the duo.
The capitalist countries are all now in the throngs
of a terrible financial crisis. The word they
use for this recession, which translated to local
tongues would mean some slow movement whereby
people are betrayed by the romantic tone of the
word. So, US and its henchmen want to resolve
this issue by hook or by crook. Iraq yielded very
little, only a few barrels of Petrol; the price
of Petrol is dwindling. Now they have turned to
India to see what they would attain here. Any
experiment is worth to the present rulers of the
US since there is a change of govt in January
2009. And the cunning Mr. Bush could entangle
Barak Obama in a knot in India.
George Bush was recently sermonizing
that he had no intentions of war when he came
to power. We are asked to believe that in spite
of the credentials of his family under his father
who waged the first US- Iraq war. The father and
the son together killed thousands of US young
men in Iraq; why did they have to die on the soil
of Iraq? Iraqis die because they wanted to defend
their land. Let us ask the same question about
the Mumbai attacks. Why did these young men die
in India in stead of Pakistan , if at all Pakistan
is their place? When Benazir died we said it was
a US work because we were convinced that by the
crime Asia could be destabilized, at least the
perpetrators of the crime thought so. Whether
they won or not can be said only by history, but
they are trying to win the cause by unleashing
an attack on Mumbai, utilizing the services and
lives of mercenaries. Our pundits of terrorism
may remember that the world is being taken to
the olden days of mercenaries. And although Mr.
Sardari is the widower of Benazir, he is the most
suitable accomplice of the US in Pakistan. How
cleanly were the Bhutto family got rid of?
Yeah, I am convinced that it is a US work perpetrated
through Pakistan. These works would continue.
US would not choose to opt out once they fail;
they would go ahead with their unethical plans
until the plan itself perishes; lessons from Vietnam
to Iraq prove this.
( Three)
The only way for us Indians is to stand united
against terrorism and imperialism. We are facing
a rather more dangerous peril of being apoliticised.
Young men and women are coached by the media to
think that it is the lapses on the part of the
political leadership that culminated into the
Mumbai attacks. May be some loopholes might have
occurred. Even the statement of the Defense Minister
that the India army would ultimately win was a
statement irrational and out of place because
the dozens of terrorists would certainly have
not believed that they would ultimately triumph.
They were mercenaries and were determined to die
for what they got or learnt.
It was a lapse in the military system that led
to the penetration of the terrorists through the
naval borders. Perhaps the financial implications
of the purchases would have led to poor weapons.
But there was no complaint to the effect. ON the
other way round, it is the existence of a powerful
democracy and political system that retains India
as it is, a wonderful land which withstands any
onslaught on it.
(Four)
There is ample talk on a war with Pakistan. It
is not a thing either the people of India or of
Pakistan desire. They wish to live in amity and
peace. War will endanger our soil and people to
put them more exposed to terrorism and impoverishment.
We know USA is facing the present crisis due to
the many unwanted wars it fought in places least
expected. War is desired by imperialists, weapon
industries and fascists. They survive on war.
People survive on peace. Peace is the precondition
for progress. We have fought wars; we do not what
we achieved out of those wars. War hawks of the
US are eager to create a war between India and
Pakistan. We have our self respect and let us
allow Pakistan have its own self respect. So far,
there is no evidence to incriminate the people
and govt of Pakistan in the Mumbai atrocity. Peace
is not a necessity, it is a must, it is with peace
alone that India can thrive. The tall claims of
an inefficient Defense Minister should not drag
us to a war. He was saying that the Indian forces
would win in Mumbai incident; anyone would know
it; any would know also that India would win any
war with Pakistan. But remember those words from
the ancient times: in war there is no victory;
all are vanquished in war. The terrible slaughter
and the unnumbered wounded in any battle would
suffice to show the sufferings on both sides in
any war. Any penny spent on war would be spent
on destruction; there is no logic in saying that
any war is f peace. In order to achieve peace,
we must pursue the path of peace. Vainglorious
claims would not take any country anywhere. Where
is US now? US are now in total turmoil. Like Manthara
of Ramayana, US are instigating India to attack
Pakistan. It will be suitable occasion for them
to interfere in Asia once again. We should not
succumb to US pressure; once a ruler of Asia succumbed
to US pressure and attacked Iran; then the lie
machines of the US again instigated Saddam Hussein
about funneling of Iraqi oil mines by Kuwait;
we know where Saddam is now. He may be called
a martyr or what not. But history treated him
cruelly, not without reason and not with the reason
the US said. History was avenging him. We created
a Bangla Desh to create one more enemy as our
neighbor. War to a normal person is the most abnormal
circumstance. Fascist clamour for war is only
understandable because flies can flourish only
on dirt.
We hope India would not pursue the path of killing;
India is to teach the world that peace is a more
powerful weapon than war.
The youth of the nation should be taught this
lesson on a war footing.
Let us once again pay homage to the martyrs that
laid their lives in defense of India.
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