ausam! Smilee! Ishan On 5/30/14, paulmuddha <paulmud...@canarabank.com> wrote: > Well written life story. > Thank you for the info and giving us an incite into the life history. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "avinash shahi" <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> > To: "accessindia" <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>; "jnuvision" > <jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com>; "sayeverything" > <sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:25 PM > Subject: [AI] An Arrested Story: Saibaba must be freed for that story to > befreed > > >> Can't agree anymore with the author >> Dr Saibaba must be freed immidiately. >> What do you say friends? >> A Delhi University teacher, forced into solitary confi nement in an >> "unda cell" (egg cell), has been charged with conspiring to wage war >> on the state. Incredible, but there seems to be no limit to which the >> powers that be can stoop - accusing a wheelchair-bound man of seeking >> to bring down the great Indian state! >> http://www.epw.in/commentary/arrested-story.html >> P K Vijayan (pk.vija...@gmail.com) teaches English literature at Hindu >> College, University of Delhi. >> >> I want to tell you a story, of a little man, if I can; his name was - >> well, his name - we will come to it shortly. This little man was born >> into a wretchedly poor peasant family that lived on the outskirts of a >> little known village, with the out-castes and untouchables. This >> little man's father had chosen to live with the marginal and the >> excluded, as a mark of solidarity with them - and this was motivated >> simply by an instinctive sense of justice, since the little man's >> father was not even literate, let alone politically educated. >> >> So the little man grew up amongst the sweepers and the scavengers, >> with hunger and deprivation as bosom companions to him and his >> siblings. Then, when he was barely five years old, he was afflicted >> with polio in both his legs, as a result of which he almost died from >> lack of medical facilities. But the little man's father managed to >> stave off his death, by running from pillar to post, from every doctor >> to every dispensary that held out hope, till the fast-spreading >> disease was finally checked; nevertheless, the little man lost the use >> of both his legs completely from the disease. >> >> This did not deter the little man or his father. He was enrolled in a >> mission school, where he learned to read and write and consumed >> everything he read with rapacious delight. Reading by the light of >> street lamps, dragging himself on his elbows and hands on the dirt >> roads of his village, from home to school, eating one meal in two days >> sometimes, the little man delighted in the world of books, and forgot >> about his own deprived and depraved one, for the hours that he was >> lost in them. The father meanwhile, took the little man wherever he >> could, showing him as much of the world as he could from the >> handlebars of his bicycle, obdurately refusing to accept that his >> son's condition would limit his mobility. The little man thus grew up >> with a deep wanderlust and an indomitable will to overcome the >> limitations of his condition. >> >> Which is how the little man, who was now no longer little but a >> full-grown, popular and well-liked young man, despite his 90% >> disability, went on to complete his school, pre-university and >> undergraduate degrees with flying colours, largely on the dint of >> scholarships and fellowships earned through sheer academic excellence. >> And as this young man grew into maturity, he also saw the colours and >> prejudices of the world around him, and learnt of its profound >> inequalities and injustices, and of the many, many crores of people >> who were systemically and systematically disadvantaged from birth - if >> not in medical terms like him, then in social and economic terms, very >> much like him, and in fact, much worse off than him. >> >> So it was that when he moved to the big city of Hyderabad for his >> Master's degree, he was already filled with a steely resolve to fight >> these injustices with the same never-say-never spirit with which he >> had fought, and continued to fight, his own debilitating >> circumstances. This is how the young man, by the time he completed his >> Master's degree, had become an accomplished, respected and hugely >> popular scholar and political activist. But the young man wanted to >> see more, to learn more, to do more - so he gave up the familiar >> terrain and people and tongues of Hyderabad, and moved to Delhi, with >> his newly married wife. Struggling to battle the harsh and callous >> conditions of the bigger city, coping with unfamiliarity and >> unemployment and prejudice and loneliness, this man, against his >> better instincts, against the enormous demands placed on him mentally >> and physically and financially, nevertheless stayed on and moved from >> job to job till he was finally appointed as a lecturer in a Delhi >> University college. >> >> This man is now a scholar and teacher of international standing and >> repute. He completed his doctoral degree, and has travelled >> extensively, nationally and internationally, presenting papers and >> giving lectures. And he has spoken out strongly, consistently and >> irrepressibly against the injustices and inequalities that he grew up >> with, and others that he has learned about, and yet others that are >> evolving around us, in ever-multiplying forms, as the welfare state >> bids farewell and exits the political stage. The polymorphous >> perversity that has pushed out and replaced the welfare state however, >> is profoundly invested in retaining, maintaining, sustaining and >> indeed further entrenching precisely those - and other - injustices >> and inequalities, because that is precisely what it feeds on, and >> thrives on, and cannot bear to have challenged, least of all by the >> likes of this man, who epitomises and embodies everything that it >> wants to crush and destroy - indomitable spirit, fearless resistance, >> and the will to overcome the cruelest of odds. >> >> Little wonder then, that the perverse drones of this polymorphous >> perversity sought to arrest a man already in a permanent state of >> arrest, thanks to his disability. Little wonder that they did so >> Mafioso style, by blindfolding and abducting him from his car on a >> university street in broad daylight in full public view, and swiftly >> bundling him by air to another city. Little wonder that they brought >> case after fabricated case against him, starting with the charge that >> he was holding stolen property at his house (can there be anything >> more absurd than accusing a wheelchair bound man of running around >> stealing property?), and leading up to charging him with conspiring to >> wage war on the state (in answer to the previous parenthetical >> question - yes, incredibly, our polymorphous perversity can go, and >> has gone, to the even more absurd lengths of accusing a wheelchair >> bound man of seeking to bring down the great Indian state!). Little >> wonder then, that they chose to do so in the peak period of a general >> election, so that the absurdity of their actions would simply >> disappear into the still greater absurdities of the great Indian >> circus of the elections that are farcically celebrated as the greatest >> festival of democratic participation in the world. And what greater >> comment on the farcicality of that vaunted "democracy" can there be >> than this arrest, and its timing, and its rationale, and its method? >> And what greater ironical comment can there be on the story of this >> man, if, after all the odds he has overcome, after all the >> disabilities he has brushed aside, after all the deprivations and >> handicaps he has forged through, after all his achievements and >> accomplishments, he should be silenced and immobilised through the >> sheer brute force of the very polymorphous perversity that he has >> spent his life battling and overcoming? >> >> As we now know, this man is now in solitary confinement, in an "unda >> cell" (egg cell), without light or ventilation, deprived of >> medication, unable to use even the toilet without severe pain and >> discomfort, crawling on hands and elbows wherever he is made to go - >> all in a desperate attempt to destroy his dignity, break his spirit >> and get him to confess to crimes he neither committed nor of which >> they have any proof of his committing. >> >> G N Saibaba is not just another "good doctor". He has become the >> biggest "little man" in the country today. His voice is the voice of >> the marginal and excluded that he grew up with, in that village in his >> youth - of every marginal and excluded voice in every village in the >> country. His story is their story, and must not be muzzled, and cannot >> be silenced. Saibaba must be freed for that story to be freed. >> Immediately >> >> >> -- >> Avinash Shahi >> M.Phil Research Scholar >> Centre for The Study of Law and Governance >> Jawaharlal Nehru University >> New Delhi India >> >> >> >> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of >> >> mobile phones / Tabs on: >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> 1. 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