Dear Friends:
It is a picture of a typical 'ungoverned' part of the city of Karachi,
appearing under the Opinion columns and also alternately appearing under
"Cities Beyond the Law". It is not about Law & Order but about the
third world cities' ghettoes. The contributor is Steve Inskeep writing
from
Washington, who is also the author of the book:Instant City;Life and
Death in Karachi.(New York Times dated 4 12 2011).
We have lot to learn from these accounts by foreign visitors. The
municipal laws cannot be enforced because of public protests.Protest by
the public; the
very people who encroach the land, the very people who want an end to
corruption. A strip of land at Guwahati was encroached by a neighbour
of mine. As I was not residing in my house, and keeping an eye on his
activities, he fenced the area and started growing bananas. I
complained to the revenue officials. They replied that the land was
settled with the encroacher and Government had no power to evict the
encroacher any more.
Sorry, I have become personal.
The Newswallah, Bharat edition, has appeared today (4 12 2011). The
rest are mostly repeats.
-bhuban.
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