Liu Xiaobo Bye. Liu Xia Love.

The Indian Express, Monday, July 17, 2017 on Page 11 has a box item on Liu Xiaobo, 1955-2017, with pix of him with wife Liu Xia and the empty chair at the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 2010. 'I have no enemies, no hatred,' says Liu and the sentence has been buzzing me since his death. To me he is alive; alive from an obscurity of not being familiar with him. Me did not pray but Liu is in me. He insisted on the birth-right of a butterfly. Chinese Communists denied it and will always be in denial as Communism is dictatorship. Nowhere (me has read a bit of Marx) has Karl Marx argued in favour of unfreedoms clamped on Russia by Lenin and Stalin and by Mao in China. Great Leap Forward killed over 10 millions; Cultural Revolution was a massacre; Tibet continues to be a holocaust; they want to wipe away Tibetans and Tibetan Buddhism; yet, every corporate of every nation, including India, wants to do business with China as it has the biggest market in the world. Cash shuts protests. China is most feared and Liu stood up against China not with a prayer or a god but with a conviction that freedoms are a given. In India we discuss the date when we will be more economically powerful than China. None questions Chinese data. And none talks of Chinese having no freedoms even as we in India are living in 2017 with edited freedoms or freedoms with hair cuts or freedoms of the zoos. (Me lives in fear of Modi regime and am not Liu). Till date no corporate chieftain in India has protested Modi. China had a Liu and has many others stacked in torture. Long ago Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi woke us to battle the British. But British as rulers were soft despite Jallianwala. British gentlemen and gentlewomen were in awe of Gandhi and his wife Ba. Gandhi could pray to Rama and protest the British. These concessions were denied Liu. Liu was treated cruelly. He lived in no hope. He stuck on, yet. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in A Home in Tibet writes of the Chinese trying hard to diminish Tibet, Tibetans and Tibet Buddhism. A hurting tale. Tsering writes: 'At seventy-six, Ashang is my oldest relative in Tibet. .....Prison was a good teacher, he says. Can the world accomodate a wise and foolish monk who has lived half of his life in prayers? .... He has no time for hope.....In my solitary existence in San Francisco I think of his question and ask myself if I am free.....Ashang understands impermanence as a key to freedom and to a life light of fear and want. I have yet to learn to be free in a free country.' Prayers are easy. Not Freedoms. Fact is dictatorship, Chinese or North Korean version, can be made, done. Freedoms are born into. Fragile. Can prayers and gods help? Gandhi thought so. He was allowed to think so. Act so. Chinese government denied Lu friends and loves. At least English allowed Gandhi to satyagraha for freedoms. Liu tried a Gandhi in China, failed. Will Liu one day stir up a Gorbachev in China? When will this misery called Chinese Communism end? Yes, Liu, freedom to Love alone is. Bye Liu. And Lady Liu Xia, hope you are alive. Love Liu Xia.