http://www.binayaksen.net/2008/05/sentence-first-verdict-afterwards/ Resist the Silent Emergency Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.binayaksen.net/2008/05/sentence-first-verdict-afterwards/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Breaking The Shackles Of Indian Politics « Bewajeh Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.binayaksen.net/?p=96#comment-338 [...] Guha also mentions something quite relevant and that is the lack of spine and the incompetence of the State when it comes to tackling extremism, both the causes and the effects. Thus the State has time and again been spineless to deal with elements that have tried to destroyed the fabric of Indian social life and spread disharmony. Raj Thackeray never had to worry about consequences, nor did Congress leaders in 1984 or BJP leaders in Gujarat.  Equally importantly, the causes are never tackled and fuel more anti-State sentiments. More often than not, liberation movements - be it the Naxalite movement, the movements in the Eastern States or even the much more complicated Kashmiri movement - can find either the cause or the solution if not both to their woes in greater political and economic participation. While dealing with the anti-State symptoms of these movements of the terrorism kind is important and is something which the State has done, dealing with the cause is just as important and this is where the State has failed miserably over the years.  Dealing with the communist threat - a threat which Guha talks about explicitly here - will be better done by bringing prosperity and participation to these people and not through debacles like Salva Judum and Binayak Sen. [...] [...] Guha also mentions something quite relevant and that is the lack of spine and the incompetence of the State when it comes to tackling extremism, both the causes and the effects. Thus the State has time and again been spineless to deal with elements that have tried to destroyed the fabric of Indian social life and spread disharmony. Raj Thackeray never had to worry about consequences, nor did Congress leaders in 1984 or BJP leaders in Gujarat.  Equally importantly, the causes are never tackled and fuel more anti-State sentiments. More often than not, liberation movements – be it the Naxalite movement, the movements in the Eastern States or even the much more complicated Kashmiri movement – can find either the cause or the solution if not both to their woes in greater political and economic participation. While dealing with the anti-State symptoms of these movements of the terrorism kind is important and is something which the State has done, dealing with the cause is just as important and this is where the State has failed miserably over the years.  Dealing with the communist threat – a threat which Guha talks about explicitly here – will be better done by bringing prosperity and participation to these people and not through debacles like Salva Judum and Binayak Sen. [...]

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