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The urban India is the India we see and would love to see. the big cities are developing into metropolitans. The zooming car drivers are assisted with an extra help of Metros. At the grass root level, the real face of India remains as what we see in Slumdog Millionaire. The poor, the unfed, the hungry Indian....
The distinction at one point of time used to be in between cast and creed and sex. Now.. it is only society wise. The urban India and the rural India. Similar is the situation with the social animals like us and the Dantewada tribes whom we call the Maoists.
Where is the reality of this situation? Is anyone doing a root cause analysis and coming to a conclusion to find out the why of this entire act.
This entire show is an offering to the tribal by the Urban India. I would rightly quote from Arundhati Roy after she had spent quality time with the Maoists. It is the Rich putting forward the poor to fight the poorest. This is the reality we fail to face.
A Group of tribal living in a forest has no aspirations other than protecting themselves from the wild animals and living. When they are surrounded by the police force to evacuate the place for industry purpose how are they to fight? They are so hungry that they cannot go into hunger strike like most of our politicians. They have no money so they cannot protest against taxpaying system. All they can do is be the animal...Snatch the guns and kill the attackers. That is their survival strategy.
The police force of this country is a pawn in the hand of the cycle of violence for decades now. This is not the first time that the police are being killed. In small numbers they are killed every day. Only when they die in a huge number, it becomes an issue. They are kept in such unimaginable poor set up. Their life never looks beyond the barracks. Their family are put up in shanty barracks with dirty and unhealthy unhygienic wash and clean areas. Their children go to a barrack like set up that they call school. When the barrack like schools of children gets destroyed, we read in the news paper that the school of army children has been blown up by terrorists. How would a terrorist discriminate between a barrack and a school??
Poverty drives the border police force to all mean deeds. When these people guarding our border take in hand their survival strategy, that is when commoners say that the BSF are not safe people.
On similar lines, when a tribal women is battered, tortured and raped, we don't come to know about it. They do not have media coverage. However, when the tribal woman snatches the AK47 and promises to stand by and protect herself, we are in an awe.
We never think who we are fighting, why are we fighting ? They are a part of us. They are just like us. We get to see the more diverse, more aggressive and more brutal human practises in them because that is how we have kept them. Fighting and surviving is all they learnt in their life. They fight poverty, facilities, hunger, animals, diseases and life on the whole. Who is responsible for this?
Doesn't the government play a crucial role in what they are today? They have got no aid for decades, no one has offered them assistance with food, diseases and education. No government went inside these areas to find out how they are doing.
The government has stretched the elastic of their patience too much. Now is the time...to face the consequences.
Let us not be the advocate of this government. Let us react to this genocidal issue. Let us be human being.
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