BK:
You went off on a tangent and did not address the CENTRAL
question/s I raised to Rajiv. If you re-read it, you will know the
diff.
See you all back on Monday or so.
Best.
c
At 5:20 AM -0400 10/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Here's an attempt, all my way though, to deal with Chandan's catalogue of queries:
>>So go ahead and explain why India cannot respond to
its many conflicts with creative and peaceful means? <<
Mahatma tried it and won the battle in his own singular way. The world found him either too antiquated for the modern age or too clever (having no guns to fight the mighty British, he made 'civil disobedience' or 'ahimsa' his instrument of warfare; it was of course not always so peaceful). The alternative was war and the Word War II was fought to end all future wars. Yes, World War III has not taken place; but it does not mean that blood has not been shed ever since to settle or unsettle human differences.
Democracy is a soft option for majority rule. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Once a country becomes free and its people united to continue to be so, unity and integrity must be maintained at all costs. The State has been given the power to do so.
You denigrate an army officer when he says he would be able to put an end to insurgency. Since Independence no one has been punished for sedition or like offences; the British Government did.
>>What has
prevented it
from letting the NE's alienation turn into
insurgencies--First the
Nagas, then Mizos, then the Assames3e, then Bodos,
.
done to stem the bloodshed in Telengana<<
These are questions dealt with by politicians and academics at length as a matter of course.
One much used brickbat is: blame the big brother-Govt of India for all their alleged commissions and omissions the States are concerned with. In fact I would hold both the elder and younger brothers liable on these counts. In any case this is a problem which is better left to be considered exclusively at another time
>>And what about less violent arenas: like the
economy? Like the
administrative system? What about justice and law ?
What about the
election system? How about taxation or the
widespread avoidance of
it? What about the pervasive corruption in every
sphere of government?<<
These are symptoms of a general rundown of integrity and morality in every sphere of life.
There is the saying that a people gets the government it deserves. If my brother is a policeman I would expect him to do well by whatever means he can. If he is a supply officer I will go to him to give me a permit for a rationed commodity; if he is a magistrate I would like him to find my children's ayah's thieving son not guilty. And avoiding tax with the help of accountants or lawyers is considered to be a type of virtue worldwide.
Bhuban
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