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Sur Bane Hamara!

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Pradesh, down to the northern

parts of Karnataka. It is said to be

running almost a parallel

administration in these tracts,

besides blowing up railway

stations and tracks, burning up

state transport buses and police

stations, killing police personnel at will, etc. On the other, the

administrative setups in these States are reluctant to come together,

owing to their strong bondage to the local political configurations, to

arrest the growing might of these forces of grave internal threat to

the growth process. And, remember, this escalation in the Maoist

violence since 2001 is in addition to the escalation in the terrorist

violence that the country has been suffering from, with Pune being

the latest to be hit.

That aside, today, politics of hatred seems to have become the in-

thing of our political system across the country. Any party can deliver

fiery speeches fanning acts that obstruct civil life, for they havegained legitimacy by virtue of winning a few elections here and there

by blatantly practicing parochial politics. They can even dictate terms

of their own for compliance by the common man, while the system


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of governance remains a mute witness to it. They can hunt migrant

labor, stall the release of movies, disrupt public life demanding

separate statehood or opposing it, and can mightily shout in chorus

against all the known logicall to intimidate people, instill fear, and

make them submit to their irrational diktats. This disturbing trend of

a section of the society fighting against another, that too in a

pluralist society like ours, is sure to harm usour very growth

prospects. Yet, we see, of course, for some unknown reason, the

sovereign feeling shy to act against such disruptive forces or to curb

political hooliganism.

Even within the government, we often see members of the coalition

not perceiving the issues of even national importance objectively, for

each coalition-partner is guided by his/her own constituency. For

instance, it is against commonsense to sell a product at less than its

cost-price, yet the government cannot raise the petrol price to a car-

owner, that too, in a country where 30% of the population lives on

less than a dollar a day. Over and above it, we have the unfortunate

tradition of the opposition parties in the Parliament or in a statelegislature opposing every proposal of the days government, as

though it were the bounden duty of an opposition party to oppose

everything that the party in power introduces. Often this behavior


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makes one wonder if the political parties have forgotten their basic

duty to the electorateof maximizing their welfare by making the

government work diligently and efficiently.

Ironically, amidst all this, the elite of the country are not able to offer

a well-reasoned opinion on any matter of national concern or do not

have the courage to condemn even incidents such as the

manhandling of a legislator for taking oath in Hindiperhaps,

because they are caught in their own elitism. It is not that the country

is not endowed with intelligentsia, but it has no political voice.

Cumulatively, the adverse effect that these opposing forces are

inflicting on the economic growth by pulling the countrys energies in

different directions is not only sickening to every conscious citizens

mind, but also makes one wonder: Is our nation at war with itself?

The ultimate victim of this national indifference is: the marginalized

commoners on the streets.

By a flick of fortune, we, of course, do have another India, where we

are witnessing a tech revolution that has resulted in a new andsurging middle class and a sizzling economy even during the days of

unprecedented global recession. Encouragingly, we also have a

unique demographic advantage. All that is needed now is to harness


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these positives for sustaining our economic growth. It is time for the

intelligentsia to wake up to these felt needs, along with the young

crop of leadersclad in white kurtas with blackberries in hand,

although representing a kind of dynastic democracy, yet certainly a

newfound encouragement for the nationand pave the way by

asserting themselves for governing our resources fruitfully, for it

alone can lead to: Mile sur mera tumhara, to sur bane hamara!

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