A Communalism forgotten and ignored




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A Communalism
forgotten and ignored!!
 
These days
the burning issue affecting all of the Indian society, Indian political diaspora
is COMMUNALISM. Everyone is talking about it, everyone seems to be affected
by it, everyone is trying to prove that they are not party to it, many are
trying to prove that certain groups are party to
it and some are working hard to find all sorts of "pseudoism"'s in
others' ideologies about it. And reasons for this are genuine; so many innocents
have been killed in RELIGIOUS communal
frenzy recently. But in all this discussion about "communalism", no one
bothers to qualify this word with the adjective "RELIGIOUS".
Why??? In the discussion about communalism in India, there is always a
big elephant sitting in the room which no one even notices, what to say about
daring to nudge it :). That big elephant is REGIONAL
COMMUNALISM.
 
Yes!! You
might even ask where is it and why we don’t notice it. The fact is that it is
deliberately kept off the agenda of dialogue in political diaspora and many of
us aren’t affected by it. And the people who are affected by it are part of
the weakest sections of the society and are without voice.
 
So where do
u see it….
In Punjab
where threat of Khalistan is used to blackmail central govt to give it
free electricity, pardon off debts and free ride for everything. Govt there does
not dare to enforce minimum wage law or land laws just because the workers being
brutally exploited to enrich Punjab are from outside.
 
In
Bombay where favorite political plank of “king of
religious communalism” is denying jobs to people from outside.

 
In Assam,
where govt selectively saves only Assamese from being butchered by ULFA
terrorists. No one is there to save the poor laborers from other states who have
come there to escape economic distress.
 
In
TamilNadu, where threat of Dravidstan was initially used to put whole
country under the slavery of a foreign language, the language of elites. Would
we expect speakers of this foreign language, to talk about 99% of
society being second-class citizen in their own country. Naah!! That’s what
makes them elite. Now this variety of communalism is so well developed in Tamil
Nadu that all major political parties there specialize in it and try to outdo
each other in it in demonizing non-Dravids, Kanadigas, north-Indians. They don’t
care if Tamil speaking people are themselves suffering by whole country being
enslaved by English speaking elite..
 
In
Jharkhand, where u might be denied a job even if u, your parents, your
grandpa and grand-grandpa might have lived there whole life... legally you
may not still be deemed resident of that state...
 
Such
examples are endless.. This has been so much institutionalized that most of the
political parties have shamelessly and meekly acquiesced to it. Elites of our
country are beneficiaries of this institutionalized communalism and
hence work hard to keep this issue under wraps..
 
BUT IS THAT
IT.. NO.. Now this is being taken to new level.. Now its going beyond
discrimination and exploitation, its now being elevated to attack the basic
foundations of democracy in our country and to disenfranchise weakest sections
of our society. People getting disenfranchised are mostly the people
without voice...
 http://www.geocities.com/chandanmishra/AttackonIndianDemocracybySEATFREEZEDECISION.htm
 
SHOCKED!!
And what are elites and people who have been crying hoarse about religious
communalism doing about it...
NOTHING...
 
And will it
stop at this.. NO.. If this continues unhindered it will finally lead to
territorial breakup of India. Religious communalism is far more benign than
this. In India people of different religions are all over India. Religious
communal hate subsides eventually when people realize they have to live together
and no one has anywhere else to go. But once the feeling of regional
communal hate starts, it is tough stopping it. And people indoctrinated in
regional communalism have pretty extreme choices available. They can easily
start demanding separate country. Can Muslims or Dalits demand separate country?
Practically infeasible!!..
 
We need to stop march of this nasty demon of REGIONAL
COMMUNALISM, because if we don’t, we will see the same events of history
repeated, when India wasn’t united.
 
Chandan
Mishra
 
 


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