Security or precisely the Indian internal/external security threat is the reason which the Indian State
have to trampled upon and play with our life with impunity. See how the most responsible and respectable of the Indian Army, the Chief of Army Staff glossed
over all the obviously and cannot be hidden, blaring unforgivable inhumane acts committed against Manorama by giving a reason
that she is a member of a proscribed organization.
Its executive guardian the political leadership has to play the game of fooling us waiting patiently for our rage to calm down so that
we will forget everything what has happened to us as if we are a people suffering from long-term memory loss.
They now hope we will come to accept a humane AFSPA for their Security and Survival- something more important than our life and existence.
So they play the wicked/shrewd double game of consoling us and at the same time displaying 'might is right' by attempting
and striving to eradicate/annihilate, unheard and secretly, the opponents- the carrier of unacceptable voices, playing the sweet song of declaring unconditional talk.
This is the reality whereby they need to be ever vigilant and display strong-arm tactics to safeguard their Security from
this distrustful/ unacceptable primitive people and to violate this people individual's
right to life at will even though guaranteed by the Indian constitution.
Our question and dilemma is how our survival and freedom could be that kind of threat and security question.
Who are we?
Don't we have the right to think and aspire and endeavour for our genuine aspirations and dreams?
Why do they always try to logic to conclusion that we are a threat? And why is that about what we think and what we
aspire always a looming security problem for them as if we don't exist and we don't have to think for ourselves
and they are there to think for us and we cannot be what we are actually? And when it is clear and a fact that our connection and association
with India came only with the then British Empire. There could be no reason for this kind of attitude other than the imperial and hegemonic ambition.
What is that 'nation building' and that 'nation' which always baffles us and which even the Chief Minister of Manipur
and the other Well-Wishers murmurs frequently?
Whether they really know the meaning and the consequences of that attempt and the project is a curious thing to ponder about.
Whose nation and what kind of nation is that. In absolutely no way we are accommodated as its equal constituent but rather
subject us to its sustain manipulation and sinister design to impose
and implant on us that don't exist for us and to inculcate a feeling upon us
of be littleness of ourselves and a loss of our self-dignity less forget about realizing and joining
the mainstream and the nation building project.
Is that mainstream that is your world, your domain of dominancy? Is that- your Security Threat vanish the moment when we
stop thinking about ourselves and start behaving like some machines-man's slave doing whatever we are commanded to do?
Enough is enough. We value and cherish democracy but not that one which we don't have a reliable and recognized voice
and a say and which we are made to accept at gun point but that one, more importantly, controlled and drived by our own
Self to our own destiny with Dignity and Freedom.
'An Inhabitant' - a Pseudonym - contributes regularly to e-pao.net.
The writer can be reached at [email protected]
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