Struggle, shed blood and WIN!

When the reality of Nandigram sinks in, even the most intellectual of the country will wonder whether we are living under democracy or authoritarian rule.

People protesting for their ‘Right to live’ were shot at brutally by the so-called pro-poor, communist government. Even though these kinds of atrocities evoke nationwide protest, people tend to forget these over time and move on. If not, Kalinganagar shooting at innocent tribals, fighting for a similar cause should have prevented Nandigram. We will see more of this unless government starts designing policies for people instead of companies.

When alien terrorist attacks our netas in parliament, politicians’ rhetoric on people’s safety goes sky high but they have the power to unleash terror on their own people. How hypocritical?

Tomorrow is a whole new day for our netas, who happily put behind these tragedies, and go happy-hunting for more lives. After all, life of poor in India is so cheap to be rue over for long time.

Why won't the poor and defenseless people take up Naxalism when person who are suppose-to-be protecting them, sets out to kill them in hordes? Do we expect them to protest in silence when the blood of their dearest ones is still wet in their hands? Will we do the same when it comes to us?

When Government stops working for the people, people will take up their own struggle, will fight and shed blood, but will finally WIN!

Real culprits are those who don't speak up!

In the game of Powerful Vs powerless in the society, we all know that powerful wins hands-down but there are increasing number of instances, which appalls to an extent of thinking whether all honesty and justice have died and decayed long ago.

Recent news on the case of Jessica Lal will only make one wonder where is our country heading too. Everyone knows who the culprit is and with numerous eye-witness, our judiciary cannot punish the guilty for more than 10 years.

This is certainly not a one-off case as the list extends for miles to stun us completely. While Media could pick-up high profile cases like Jessica Lal, Priyadarshini Matto and Nitish Katara, hundreds of thousands of similar cases, with clear evidences, yet blatant negligance of truth, are languishing in court rooms for decades.

The small satisfaction got by looking at the small percentage of cases where speedy justice delivered, washes away quickly once we see the background of most of the convicts - People subjected to abjunct poverty,under-previlaged and tribals, who can neither hire a lawyer nor defend themselves; Police system hastily speedens the process of trail and judiciary is quick in nailing them down without giving the powerless, a chance. However, high-profile men, be it Navjot Singh Sidhu getting conviction after 18 years for murder trail, while all these years, he was hitting beaches from Sidney to Carribean, and contesting & winning Parliamentary election even after conviction, or be it Sanjay Dutt romancing with his heroines, and getting multiple bails even after conviction. This makes one wonder whether our judiciary can be trusted anymore? Should the mechanical scale on the hands of justice-angel be replaced with a Digital one?

Finally, after done with complaining the system, its time again to look at citizen's roles and their colossal failures. Are we not part of anything happening around? Is not securing justice for victims, at least for ones in our vicinity, our responsibility? Can what happened to him today, not happen to us tomorrow? Will we cry & act only if it happens to us, not to our neighbours? Are we not more culpubale to remain mute spectator at atrocities than the criminal himself?

As the famous German Peom "First they came" describes the inactivity of citizens:

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left
to speak up for me.


To sustain in this game of life and death between powerful and powerless, powerless and under-served people have to unite to survive and fight against the evils who always unite easily among themselves. Comradeship should be build among poor communities and culture of people standing up for each other should be developed as against turning blind-eye towards atrocities happening to your brethern living next door.

If we choose to continue to live the way we are, we should not cry for help later as there will be none left to save us.