A poor man shoulders his dead wife for miles with daughter beside. If this man picks up a gun is it so unfair? Should he not? Will it help petitioning an IAS officer till death? Accused of being a Maoist, Arjun, aged 19, was killed by Chattisgarh police in a controversial encounter, reports Malini Subramaniam for scroll.in. A Soni Sori, leads a Forest Walk protesting a strong monsoon of bullets on adivasis and tribals in Chattisgarh and Jharkhand. Many, many years ago a Gandhi walked to Dandi and history. Gandhi is praised; a Soni Sori gets no mention. In India 2016, how should the poor dissent? Or should they not dissent? They are alone, the organised Communist parties have lost links with them .... they lost it long ago when the Siddartha Shankar Ray of the Congress, the CPI (M) and CPI ganged up to brutalise the Naxals. India, economic reforms, modern banking and ...yet, the Naxals have not gone; Left kept away from the Mumbai Textile Strike of Dr. Datta Samant; Left was absent from the Narmada Bachao Andolan of Medha Patkar; they do not back Soni Sori; they are not in Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. Teams of tough activists are helping the poor in their protests to the dislike of the rich and middle class. In a recent chat writer Perumal Murugan says: '... It is high time Marxists and leftists gave up such lazy ideas ... I dont know, these times demand more sensible and effective protest methods...'; what should Soni Sori do? Yes, Naxals and government kill as the poor still leave large stains in India. Sure Perumal Murugan adds: '....Before we talk about Independence and freedom (of the underprivileged, women, Dalits, minorities, students, writers), the question should be whether we have the freedom to discuss all these.' Aside of scroll.in and wire.in, there is a media quiet.... development will cure the poor ... but will the poor be around after development takes away their lands and forests? .... poverty is not debatable; poverty and poor will go away together. In Naxalbari times (Amar bari, thomar bari, sabar bari Naxalbari ... my house, your house, every house is Naxalbari), Samar Sen in Frontier wrote of young poxed with bullets. Reading the end of Arjun is akin to the killing of Brati Chatterjee in Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi. Do not know if modern India will buy the book with its tale of Brati and his thinking mother Sujata; will the 20s and 30s read? or is to Pokemon Go? Today Calcutta 70 is happening in tribal areas. Brati's friend Nandini tells Sujata: 'I've told you I dont know. I still feel disturbed and confused about so many things. Everything seems so strange, so unreal. I cant identify with anything. My experiences over the last few years have made me unfit for this so-called normalcy. All that you people find normal, I find abnormal. Can you tell me what I should do? I cant. Almost none of my friends are alive. All the things I want to say, the people I want to talk about, all that my mind is full of, I cant speak of to anyone. There is no one I can talk to.' Yes, the poor have none to talk. But they know. Karl Marx is hearing. Happens them. Come on its all so boring .... we have heard it for long ...this lament.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Arjun and Soni Sori
A poor man shoulders his dead wife for miles with daughter beside. If this man picks up a gun is it so unfair? Should he not? Will it help petitioning an IAS officer till death? Accused of being a Maoist, Arjun, aged 19, was killed by Chattisgarh police in a controversial encounter, reports Malini Subramaniam for scroll.in. A Soni Sori, leads a Forest Walk protesting a strong monsoon of bullets on adivasis and tribals in Chattisgarh and Jharkhand. Many, many years ago a Gandhi walked to Dandi and history. Gandhi is praised; a Soni Sori gets no mention. In India 2016, how should the poor dissent? Or should they not dissent? They are alone, the organised Communist parties have lost links with them .... they lost it long ago when the Siddartha Shankar Ray of the Congress, the CPI (M) and CPI ganged up to brutalise the Naxals. India, economic reforms, modern banking and ...yet, the Naxals have not gone; Left kept away from the Mumbai Textile Strike of Dr. Datta Samant; Left was absent from the Narmada Bachao Andolan of Medha Patkar; they do not back Soni Sori; they are not in Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. Teams of tough activists are helping the poor in their protests to the dislike of the rich and middle class. In a recent chat writer Perumal Murugan says: '... It is high time Marxists and leftists gave up such lazy ideas ... I dont know, these times demand more sensible and effective protest methods...'; what should Soni Sori do? Yes, Naxals and government kill as the poor still leave large stains in India. Sure Perumal Murugan adds: '....Before we talk about Independence and freedom (of the underprivileged, women, Dalits, minorities, students, writers), the question should be whether we have the freedom to discuss all these.' Aside of scroll.in and wire.in, there is a media quiet.... development will cure the poor ... but will the poor be around after development takes away their lands and forests? .... poverty is not debatable; poverty and poor will go away together. In Naxalbari times (Amar bari, thomar bari, sabar bari Naxalbari ... my house, your house, every house is Naxalbari), Samar Sen in Frontier wrote of young poxed with bullets. Reading the end of Arjun is akin to the killing of Brati Chatterjee in Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi. Do not know if modern India will buy the book with its tale of Brati and his thinking mother Sujata; will the 20s and 30s read? or is to Pokemon Go? Today Calcutta 70 is happening in tribal areas. Brati's friend Nandini tells Sujata: 'I've told you I dont know. I still feel disturbed and confused about so many things. Everything seems so strange, so unreal. I cant identify with anything. My experiences over the last few years have made me unfit for this so-called normalcy. All that you people find normal, I find abnormal. Can you tell me what I should do? I cant. Almost none of my friends are alive. All the things I want to say, the people I want to talk about, all that my mind is full of, I cant speak of to anyone. There is no one I can talk to.' Yes, the poor have none to talk. But they know. Karl Marx is hearing. Happens them. Come on its all so boring .... we have heard it for long ...this lament.
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