Easy to forgive but not forget, Nelson Mandela supports the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in 1995, to look into the apartheid years. Compassion formed the undertone and observers think it helped a free South Africa ease into democracy. Nelson Mandela did a fine job to get all together. In Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, there is another politician trying to be less of a politician, more of a human. Have been reading a bit about this gentleman. In Canada, the Indian residential school system, one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history, has had a profoundly lasting and damaging impact on indigenous culture, heritage and language. As a father and former teacher, I am overwhelmingly moved by these events, a newsite quotes Justin Trudeau. 'Seven years ago, the Government of Canada apologised for this abhorrent system. The apology is no less true, and no less timely, today. The Government of Canada sincerely apologises and asks forgiveness of the Aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly.' A genuine band-aid, not manufactured by Johnson&Johnson. Sorry does not come easy. Pope Paul said Sorry, Trudeau said Sorry. Will my country say Sorry to Muslims, Christians, Dalits, Adivasis, Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs and the society residing in the North East? With January 26, nearing, we need a Compassion Commission to study our inequitous society the last 69 years. Yes, a Commission may not be of any help; but at least it will tell us what we were and are; a nation taking to counselling to soft edge its hatreds for the future. A Dr. Manmohan Singh said Sorry to Sikhs for 1984; Mallika Sarabhai says PM Modi has not said a word on the death of mother Mrinalini Sarabhai. Mallika admits to hating Modi politics and Modi hating hers; but a death need not upload hatred. Not a word on Rohit Vemula. Not a word on Mohammad Akhlaq. Not a word on Pansare, Dabholkar, Kalburgi. A Karan Johar at the Jaipur Festival is scared. Mr. Modi you are a busy human, the job of being primus inter pares is demanding. Yet, you could have tweeted mother of Vemula a Sorry; a RIP to Mallika Sarabhai. Not a word on farmers giving up faster than their crops. Surprising, Mr. Modi you take time out for corporates but never for farmers. Development is your calling card; all in your government want India to better China; n India development is money for a few, poverty for most and never a nullifier of community dislikes; worse, development abhors dissent. Dissenters in China are firmly behind bars. In India they are tittering. In the Cold War years, Russia was placed on par with US; two super powers; today Russia, Brazil, China and India make Brics. But Sir, you want to be a global power better than China. Never understood the logic; but now do; that's the way dissent can be got rid of and 10 per cent GDP clocked. A Compassion Commission could make India more civilised than China; an India with a million views clashing the maidans and parks. Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi, January 26 for grace with growth.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Sorry.....
Easy to forgive but not forget, Nelson Mandela supports the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in 1995, to look into the apartheid years. Compassion formed the undertone and observers think it helped a free South Africa ease into democracy. Nelson Mandela did a fine job to get all together. In Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, there is another politician trying to be less of a politician, more of a human. Have been reading a bit about this gentleman. In Canada, the Indian residential school system, one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history, has had a profoundly lasting and damaging impact on indigenous culture, heritage and language. As a father and former teacher, I am overwhelmingly moved by these events, a newsite quotes Justin Trudeau. 'Seven years ago, the Government of Canada apologised for this abhorrent system. The apology is no less true, and no less timely, today. The Government of Canada sincerely apologises and asks forgiveness of the Aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly.' A genuine band-aid, not manufactured by Johnson&Johnson. Sorry does not come easy. Pope Paul said Sorry, Trudeau said Sorry. Will my country say Sorry to Muslims, Christians, Dalits, Adivasis, Kashmiri Pandits, Sikhs and the society residing in the North East? With January 26, nearing, we need a Compassion Commission to study our inequitous society the last 69 years. Yes, a Commission may not be of any help; but at least it will tell us what we were and are; a nation taking to counselling to soft edge its hatreds for the future. A Dr. Manmohan Singh said Sorry to Sikhs for 1984; Mallika Sarabhai says PM Modi has not said a word on the death of mother Mrinalini Sarabhai. Mallika admits to hating Modi politics and Modi hating hers; but a death need not upload hatred. Not a word on Rohit Vemula. Not a word on Mohammad Akhlaq. Not a word on Pansare, Dabholkar, Kalburgi. A Karan Johar at the Jaipur Festival is scared. Mr. Modi you are a busy human, the job of being primus inter pares is demanding. Yet, you could have tweeted mother of Vemula a Sorry; a RIP to Mallika Sarabhai. Not a word on farmers giving up faster than their crops. Surprising, Mr. Modi you take time out for corporates but never for farmers. Development is your calling card; all in your government want India to better China; n India development is money for a few, poverty for most and never a nullifier of community dislikes; worse, development abhors dissent. Dissenters in China are firmly behind bars. In India they are tittering. In the Cold War years, Russia was placed on par with US; two super powers; today Russia, Brazil, China and India make Brics. But Sir, you want to be a global power better than China. Never understood the logic; but now do; that's the way dissent can be got rid of and 10 per cent GDP clocked. A Compassion Commission could make India more civilised than China; an India with a million views clashing the maidans and parks. Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi, January 26 for grace with growth.
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