Temptations of a flabby state

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communities we like to brand as “Naxals”, a movement that is fast enveloping India with armed revolt because no one was willing to listen to their concerns and needs when they agitated peacefully.

A government in denial calls this movement a “law and order problem”! This lack of comprehension in government is frightening.

India and her citizens will never allow themselves to be ruled by policemen or generals. Gandhi taught us to revolt peacefully, and we will. Only an insecure and flabby state resorts to the use of brute force.

Those elected to power who permit this unintelligent option to prevail are traitors to Indian civilisation and its intrinsic strengths as well as staunch opponents of Mahatma Gandhi. They should say so.

Indians will rebel in fury. If our political class is to rule effectively to pull India out of the sickening mire and poverty, both economic and intellectual, it will have to make sure that the democratic process does not abdicate to brutal solutions in a desperate attempt to solve the glaring failures of bankrupt governance.

The Central leadership should have got the CPM chief to receive the torch at Writers Building, taken it in a procession to China Town in Kolkata, with red flags flying, and made China happy. Instead, India exposed an inability to honour the demand for human rights, a demand made by the Tibetan government and its people in exile in India. We had a kneejerk reaction. We took the easy option of using State power.