Thursday, January 07, 2010

Armed rebel, war and liberty: physical ahimsa!!

Last month I was in one of the tribal districts of Odisha. I met people there from whom I got some second hand accounts of what's happening in the land in the name of Naxal moment. All these days I am also reading a book named "The Guns of August", an excellent account of the happenings of the first world war. With all these things in mind, suddenly I came to realise something:

It has become utterly futile these days to wage a war or an armed revolution. The days of heroism and martyredom are gone. The races which realise this sooner will be the winners! Days are gone, when you could by arms and force occupy a foreign land and get loots. This may still happen today; but its a very short term benefit. Days are gone when people would rise with a new idea, take up arms and get liberated from the old rules. This may still happen these days; but these again are a waste of time and lives. Now has come a time of globalization and commercialization. If you think you are free, then you are. If a race thinks it ought to be liberated, then it has to fight its own stigma and establish itseld economically. If you think of occupying a foreign land, then sutly control its economy. The way its happening these days. Foreign companies, invest in India. Its Indian resources, Indian manpower and Indian consumers. But the profit goes to the foreign lands. So they have made us work for their purpose and made us give them money as well. And it all is happenig so smoothly! You wanna reverse it, then you gotta make a better company with better strategies!

Similarly, the naxalites who want to liberate their land and get the benefit of their own resources, have to rise beyond the level of money and oratory. They have to think big, use their own resources, invest in man-power and skill enhancement, generate public openion and force the government to start developmental programs, and in a few decades they can beat any damn developed state of the nation. May be this is neo-Gandhism? Dont know. But it certainly is not physical-violence. So it can be called physical-ahimsa!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Whatever it is, whatever u may name it, its good. People have to realise that there is no fixed amount of money in this world that has to redistributed. That wealth can always be created. That the more you create wealth, the more chances that everyone at every level is going to be benefited someway or the other. That merit and hard labor have to be respected while you try to some how set up "equality" in the society. That there is no real freedom until there is economic independence. And mostly, do not put ur faith in revolutions, they have a habit of coming back again and again. People die and finally nothing changes.

Mister Mangu said...

Thats why they are called revolutions :D

Dips said...

I totally agree with the above comment :)

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