Mainstream WeeklyMUSINGS
There is something or everything so very bizarre and frightfully horrific about last week’s arrest and detention of the country’s well-known activists and academics who have been raising their voice and concerns for the tribals and minorities, and also for the atrocities taking place in the conflict zones of the country, and this includes the Kashmir Valley.
Instead of paying heed to their concerns, we see the establishment of the day lock them up. If not in prisons, in their homes. Policing tactics used to terrorise sane voices... to relay to the rest of us to keep shut, otherwise we could face similar torture; with fascist fangs spreading out as never before.
Instead of focusing on the disasters taking place in the country, this government chooses to hound activists and academics. As though by hounding and shutting them, the country’s problems will be resolved or rectified.
Where the hell are we heading to! Towards a very, very dismal future.Where the basic survival issues are not getting rectified, nor addressed. Lies and more lies are mouthed by the sarkar and its men, even as we are drowning... getting washed away, ruined in every sense of the term. Today only few amongst us are being left alive enough, to be able to swim or float against the tide, to stay intact whilst swimming in turbulent waters.
If this government was actually and genuinely bothered about development and in keeping the citizens safe and sound, then it should be looking at the flood issue somewhat seriously. More than six States of the country are witnessing flood fury of the worst kind, yet all that we get to hear is of doles from the Centre. What about long-term strategies to control flooding and the disastrous offshoots they drag along? What about making public the disaster-control format the government plans to introduce to contain the flood fury? What about the relief packages