Terror-Diversity in India

(A Comment on the ongoing War On Terror in India.)

Many of us either knowingly or out of ignorance neglect the variety of terrorism in India. Like our diversity, terrorism in India is also very varied. Lets start with the question What is Terrorism. It is the use of terror for attaining some predetermined goals. The important terms here are Terror and Goals. And when we have decided to fight terrorism we must fight its all 'strains' rather than just one.

My list of terrorist organizations includes the following:

1. The Police and The Bureaucracy: I, as a common man, am very terrified by the police. I keep a hundred-hands distance from these people, I don’t fear the bureaucracy that much because [Read 5.]

2. The Politicians: This is another group that I fear a lot, because they have four hands instead of two, two their own, and one of police and the other of criminals and goons. I change my road if they are traveling on the same and make sure that I never fall in their line of sight.

3. The ‘Bahubalis’, The Mafia Dons and Criminals: The Bahulbali is a sub-category of the Politician category, they are usually found in the states of UP, Bihar and Jharkhand. But as their achievements and glory is spreading a whole new generation of such politicians is coming up in all parts of the country. The Mafia (although groups exist in each state) is most visible in Mumbai and Goa. The petty criminals have impacted my life most. I fear theft, robbery, loot, chain-snatch each day I step out of my house.

4. The former Rajas, Maharajas, Zamindars and Tallukdars: yet another category of the Politicians, they morphed into politicians after independence and abolition of privy purses, and since then they are ‘SERVING’ the nation and its people.

5. The Contractors, Agents and the Dalaals: this is the second largest category of terrorists in India, they deal in everything for a commission, be it a kid, a labour, girls/ women for prostitution , a kidney, a defence deal, share market fraud, hawala, roads, bridges, coffins, railways, arms, ammunition, drugs, religion, tax, passport, license, ration card, they deal in everything. Individually they are nothing but their collective efforts seem to be SELLING OUR COUNTRY FOR A SMALL COMMISSION.

6. The Hindutva forces: they want political power in the garb of religion, now they are terrorizing other communities after they have successfully done so they will come for us. They indirectly help in making terrorism a bigger problem as their acts and words fuel the terrorist organizations here and in Pakistan. They can’t end Terrorism because they are based on Terror.

7. The Regional forces: the Shivsena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena are the current examples, Khalistan, Kashmir, the North-eastern states, all are examples of such regional forces pulling in different directions and to disintegrate India.

8. The Imported Terrorist: the least damaging yet the most discussed and highlighted, what they do is kill a hundred or so people and die. People go crazy over them ignoring the fact that many of commuters of Mumbai Local die silently by falling from the trains or have their limbs chopped off, people travel like animals in these trains even when pages of Railway Time Tables are filled with trains to and from Bihar, they breathe poisoned-polluted air, get stuck in traffic jams, drink polluted water, get run over by drunk drivers, etc. Talking of rural India, you again can list more than a hundred problems and how they are killing our people.
These people come and show us the mirror of the dirt and loopholes we have created in our system and we get angry over them. We just want to fight them. But I am Sorry to say you can't fight them alone, you have to fight all of the above and following to really fight them.


9. The Homegrown Terrorist: when extremist people from a majority attack a minority they forget (or rather knowingly?) that extremism is also present on the other side. Some of the emotionally wounded, betrayed and frustrated retaliate and the cycle starts. Society keeps a nab on extremism by fair-play and justice, when these two go extremism comes forward.

10. The People’s fighters or the Naxals: the terrorists with leftist leanings, they are fighting for the poor and the tribals and want to bring a revolution. Currently their struggle is aimed at SEZs and corporatization of agricultural land. If anyone tries to make people aware, they quickly get rid of him, because they run a parallel government in many areas of the country, what is popularly known as The Red Corridor and they can't risk its existence.

11. The Forward Caste Groups: the Ranvir Sena and similar groups organized in the states of UP, Bihar and Jharkhand, by the landlords and forward castes to scare away naxals, they are more involved in torturing and terrorising innocent people mostly dalits. Their most damaging impact is the loss of credibility of the State and its institutions.

12. The Urban-terrorist-in-training: A new breed of terrorist, a generation born after each attack or major incident. These are people like me who have started learning and fighting all these above groups. We will be deemed terrorist by these people in the coming days, first we will be attacked so that we are taught a lesson and then we will be killed by them for not changing our ways.

13. The Dormant Citizens of India: this is the largest category of terrorists I think, when somebody hurts them they try to take revenge individually but not collectively. They sit and wait till something wrong happens to them rather than actively work to prevent it.
They silently see the oppression and the exploitation, some even contribute (behti ganga main haath dho lain), they indifferently watch the rot spread everywhere in the system. If someone wants to do something good they won’t support him, they can bear and adjust with all the failings and shortcomings of India, as a nation and We The People, as the citizens of this country by ranting and chanting BAD LUCK, NOTHING WILL CHANGE, NO ONE CAN CHANGE IT.


To conclude, It is very easy to point fingers at Pakistan, because by doing so we can rid ourselves of the real issues and the real WAR ON TERROR that needs to be fought in our country. If we are to really fight Terrorism, we must fight it in entirety not focusing on one aspect of it while closing our eyes on all others. Those who came and killed have nothing to do with the reasons behind the attack. (it can be anything, a conspiracy of ISI and Pakistan, a conspiracy of CIA and America, a conspiracy of China with Pakistan, a conspiracy of our government to divert attention from all other issues, a conspiracy of BJP for Lok Sabha Elections, anything. I should write about it in detail.)

Remember the biggest terrorist attack in world's history was not on the TWIN TOWERS but on the cities of HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI.

From the Land of Bureaucrat-Politicians and Politician-Bureaucrats

I was reading through people’s queries on Jago website and the most common questions were related to its policies: Can it be done, how would you do it, etc. I have written about it many times (see here or here) but a new insight made me write this.

The question of implementation of promises and proposals is a crucial one for every concerned citizen but asking right questions at the right time is equally important. (I’ve got stuck in questions after the Where’s the Question article)

What has happened is the faulty functioning of our politicians for past many decades have changed our definition of a politician, we now see him as a bureaucrat-politician, one who does transfers and posting right from bottom to the top, who personally ‘delves’ in the matters of day to day administration and is remotely concerned with policies and agenda. After every election we see a series of transfers, cancellation of transfers, re-transfers, continue for many days.

Given such kind of functioning our bureaucrats have also turned the traditional definition of a bureaucrat upside down, they don’t hesitate to meddle in politics, many are directly involved in electioneering for their political bosses, they have turned into Politician-Bureaucrat. Any Politician-Bureaucrat is a darling for our politicians, who chase him till he does not join anyone of them.

This has made us ask administrative questions from politicians and political questions from bureaucrats. Ask a party why did you not do this work instead of asking how you failed to do it, Say I will vote for you once, you have to make sure all that you've said is done in 5 years otherwise I'll kick you out.

I tried to make a list of how a system should function , so that we can understand the difference between a politician and a bureaucrat.

1. The Political Party & The Politicians: a group of citizens who come together based on their belief in similar ideas and solutions. It contests elections, if comes to power makes the policy decisions (based on its manifesto and ideology), selects the leaders (not the whole bureaucratic team) for its implementation and supervises the work.

2. The People: decide what the direction of the nation should be through the elections. They are the real owners of the agenda of the political party they have voted in and they make sure that it’s implemented by the party by the fear of getting voted out in next elections.

3. The Government & The Bureaucracy: It is the tool, the instrument, the machinery that does the work assigned to it by the elected leadership, it does the all work, what it should do is decided by the political party in power, who is elected (decided) by the people based on the proposals and promises of the party.

The Conclusion is: (To Reiterate) The Bureaucracy does all the work, The Work is decided by the government which is a part of Political Party that gets voted in by the people. The People decide which Party gets their votes by the party’s agenda and manifesto.

Then the natural question is why people criticize the policies and proposals of a political party even when they can simply ignore it by not voting for it. The best explanation for it to me is that people feel somewhat connected to the party and its proposals, they try to test the resolve of the people behind it, they want to see are these people plain opportunists or persons of altogether different mettle.

United For Terror:

[N.B.: The person who has written this text seems to be mentally deranged, kindly read with caution!]

OK the Mumbai attacks have at least brought unity in our country’s political parties both seem to be United FOR Terror, each issuing a new message to terrorists and Pakistan with each passing day. Here is a small compilation of these statements in form of open one-sided contract:

1. The UPA led by Congress:

1. Terrorists may attack at will, we will ensure that all our administrative and intelligence machinery will sleep, to allow them safe passage.

2. Pakistan’s foreign ministry need not worry, we will ourselves create rift between the Hindu and Muslim communities, so that our citizens may not ask hard questions from you.

3. We promise that the changes in our administrative system will be cursory, the depths where the real rot is will be left untouched.

4. We are a secular party but behind the doors we believe in the concept of ‘Transmigration of Souls’ (mentioned in Gita) and we have applied it in real life. Our Real Life Gods, our leaders ensure that whoever loses his seat is fixed at a new place (seat) as soon as possible. The Transmigration is based on loyalty to ‘The Family’.

2. The NDA led by BJP:

1. Attacks would not be tolerated especially if they are on politicians, but we promise to fulfill all the demands in cases of kidnapping and abduction.

2. Pakistan’s foreign ministry must be prepared for some random acts like we will fight while having summits, shout ‘Hot Pursuits’ and ‘Aar Paar Ki Ladaayi’ but sit over our arses, so that the confusion persist for long and we can take any stand depending on the situation.

3. We promise far reaching changes, we will make stringent laws but won’t change the system so that we can use them for our benefit, we will further polarize and crystallize prejudices against Muslims in Hindus. We will ensure the adrenaline rush so that half of people die of heart attack and the rest fighting in riots.

4. As you know our party is based on Hindu ideology, our leaders ride ‘Rathas’ (Chariots), we firmly believe in the concept of Transmigration of Souls and Seats. The Transmigration is based on person’s utility, power and money, either the profiles are changed from high to low, in some rare cases the person is kicked out from the party.

3. Hearing that we were doing a story on Terrorism (which is selling like hot cakes nowadays), many other important politicians contacted us, here is a compilation of what they have to say:

1. We promise to disrespect the country.

2. We promise to disrespect its martyrs and true leaders.

3. We promise to disrespect its people as and when possible, in as many ways possible.

4. We promise to create hullabaloo during election days and first few days of any crisis, rest of the days we will do what we are best at doing. (details of this work have to be filled by the reader!)

So friends this is a small compilation of our political parties’ stand on our war on terror where we are not united against terror but UNITED FOR TERROR, take it in writing the next attack is very near.

JAI HIND!

[P.S.: KINDLY TAKE THE ARTICLE IN THE WAY IT IS INTENDED, FOREIGN FRIENDS BEWARE!]

[Influenced by successive statements of politicians: Vilasrao Deshmukh, R.R. Patil, V.S. Achutyanandan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, A.R. Antulay, Jaswant Singh, Digvijay Singh, and others.]

WHERE IS THE QUESTION, MR. NILEKANI?

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I just read Nandan Nilekani’s article Where Was the Mayor? on his blog, I am getting angrier with each passing minute and second, on whom ON MYSELF, ON YOU, ON ALL OUR FELLOW CITIZENS.
I am jotting down what I am thinking so that all this exercise does not go to waste:

1. He asks, Where Was the Mayor? And then answers it himself, the lack of comment or reaction was probably expected.
Saw what India’s one of the most successful software entrepreneurs and the co-founder of Infosys has to say, IT WAS EXPECTED. The Real Question is why? Because we were sleeping in our [expletive deleted] homes comfortably when criminals and thieves were taking control of our political system. And we slept, slept over the problems by writing theses on what went wrong, who was responsible, blah blah blah. MR. NILEKANI ASK WHY I WAS SLEEPING TILL NOW? WHY YOU WERE SLEEPING TILL NOW? WHY WE ALL WERE SLEEPING TILL NOW?

2. He writes, I doubt many in Mumbai even know who the mayor of the city is – it’s a largely ceremonial post. Read it, ask this where the [expletive deleted] you all go on the voting day, if you don’t give a damn, nobody else does. Why are we gathering these CEREMONIAL POSTS in our country, have we got so much money to pay for keeping such people idle, I read some time back, the printing/publishing of photographs of The President of India for official use got delayed because she could not get the ‘Palloo’ right. MR. NILEKANI ASK WHY AM I PAYING THE TAXES?

3. He writes, There was no powerful official representing Mumbai’s city administration simply because the administration has no power to speak of. The favourite game of politicians and administration, Passing the Buck, even if the cycle gets completed and we reach the end of the buck-chain no one gets punished. MR. NILEKANI ASK WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? WHO’S ACCOUNTABLE?

4. He writes, An entire tier of government at the local level appeared non-existent. . . The disadvantages of weak and ineffectual city governance become most stark in these times of disaster. The Mumbai floods in 2005 saw civilians far more present in rescue and rehabilitation operations than civic agencies. The most important part of a project, (you will know better) is the question what I want to solve, when we knew the question, the real question is WHY DID WE FAIL TO SOLVE IT? AND SOLVE IT WHEN WE HAD THE SOLUTION IN FRONT OF US? THE QUESTION IS ARE WE SUFFERING FROM FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS?

5. He writes, The Indian city has long been exiled from our collective imagination. . . these amendments were meant to fulfil Rajiv Gandhi’s dream of the Panchayat Raj and village power - city governments were an afterthought. But these changes, and the powers that the amendments offer, have largely remained on paper –. . . And no state Chief Minister wants to let go the money and patronage that comes from controlling urban land. SIR A QUESTION FROM MY SIDE, WHY DID YOU WASTE YOUR TIME WRITING THESE TWO PARAGRAPHS? YOU COULD HAVE SAID OUR URBAN GOVERNANCE & INFRASTRUCTURE IS ALL [EXPLETIVE DELETED] –UP, IT IS LADEN WITH CORRUPTION AND INEFFICIENCY AND WE WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD, WE ALL SUFFER IT DAILY.

6. He writes, But there is some pressure for change. Why some pressure, why not great pressure, if 30% of India’s population that moves beyond its caste and its past and makes our cities centers of economic growth and innovation, cannot exert pressure on its government, its politicians, its administration then just think of the influence that the rest 70% of our population can exert on our polity. JUST IMAGINE MR. NILEKANI.

7. He writes, Without local governments that answer directly to their citizens, urban India will face the threat of being mauled again when the next crisis hits. WHAT, IS THE CRISIS LIMITED JUST TO URBAN AREAS, OR ARE WE BEING SELFISH ON THE ISSUE, IF YOU WANT TO ASK, ASK OUR PRIME MINISTER WHAT WILL BE HIS POA (PLAN OF ACTION) WHEN A ‘MISGUIDED & UNKNOWN’ NUCLEAR MISSILE SHOT FROM NEFA/PAK-AFGAN BORDER LANDS ON BHOPAL, ( NOT DELHI, NOT MUMBAI, NOT KOLKATA, NOT CHENNAI, GOD WILL NOT BE THAT HARSH TO THOSE LIVING THERE, THEY WILL NOT HAVE THEIR LUCK SO BAD). ASK HIM ALL, WHO WILL RESIGN, WHAT OUR AGENCIES WOULD DO, HOW DRAFT WILL WRITTEN BY THE SP TO THE CAMMANDO HQ, WHO WILL UNDERSIGN IT, WHICH WIRELESS SETS WILL BE ON, WHICH WILL BE OFF, WHERE WILL BE OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, ASK ALL OF THAT.

PLEASE ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS MR. NILEKANI BECAUSE PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOU, PEOPLE WANT ADVICE AND GUIDANCE FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN SUCH SITUATIONS.
PLEASE ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS MR. NILEKANI BECAUSE THE CAMERA IS ON YOU,
PLEASE ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS MR. NILEKANI BECAUSE WE NOW NEED PEOPLE WITH ANSWERS, QUESTIONS WE ALL HAVE IN PLENTY,
IF ALL YOU WANTED TO SAY WAS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED US, OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HAVE FAILED US, OUR POLITICIANS HAVE FAILED US, WE OURSELVES HAVE FAILED US, YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT,
OR WRITTEN A DETAILED PLAN OF HOW WE ARE TO TREAD THE TESTING ROADS OF FUTURE.

JAI HIND !

[P.S. The person who has written this article seems to be mentally deranged, he has watched Nana Patekar’s movies from his childhood, lived a live dreaming of doing something for his country yet flowing in the comforts of a middle-class life, now he is onto yet another utopian idea of reforming his country’s polity and making it a happy and safe place, where we all could once again SLEEP comfortably. He has a habit of unnecessarily bothering famous people and a tendency of using their fame for getting famous. All these have sky-rocketed after the recent Mumbai Terror Attacks.]

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