"..After Azad was killed, several media commentators tried to paper over the
crime by shamelessly inverting what he said, accusing him of calling the
Indian Constitution a piece of toilet paper.
If the government won’t respect the constitution, perhaps we should push for
an amendment to the preamble. “We, The People of India, having solemnly
resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic
Republic…” could be substituted with “We, the upper castes and classes of
India, having secretly resolved to constitute India into a Corporate, Hindu,
Satellite State"…

"..In their concluding section they say:
The Memorandum of Understandings signed by the state governments with
industrial houses, including mining companies should be re-examined in a
public exercise, with gram sabhas at the centre of this enquiry.Here it is
then—not troublesome activists, not the Maoists, but a government report
calling for the mining MOUs to be re-examined. What does the government do
with this document? How does it respond? On April 24th 2010, at a formal
ceremony, the Prime Minster released the report. Brave of him, you’d think.
Except, this chapter wasn’t in it. It was dropped.

Half a century ago, just a year before he was killed, Che Guevara wrote:
“When the oppressive forces maintain themselves in power against laws they
themselves established, peace must be considered already broken.” Indeed it
must. In 2009 Manmohan Singh said in Parliament “ If left-wing extremism
continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the
climate for investment would certainly be affected”. This was a furtive
declaration of war.."....

"..Implicit in a lot of the debate around Maoists, is the old, patronizing,
tendency to cast “the masses”, the adivasi people in this case, in the role
of the dimwitted horde, completely controlled by a handful of wicked
“outsiders”. One university professor, a well-known Maoist baiter, accused
the leaders of the party of being parasites preying on poor adivasis. To
bolster his case he compared the lack of development in Dandakaranya to the
prosperity in Kerala. After suggesting that the non-adivasi leaders were all
cowards “hiding safely in the forest” he appealed to all adivasi Maoist
guerillas and village militia to surrender before a panel of middle-class
Gandhian activists (hand-picked by him). He called for the non-adivasi
leadership to be tried for war-crimes. Why non-adivasi Gandhians are
acceptable, but not non-adivasi Maoists, he did not say. There is something
very disturbing about this inability to credit ordinary people with being
capable of weighing the odds and making their own decisions..."

http://www.countercurrents.org/roy130910.htm
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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR



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