India belongs to NE Indians also

The northeast was again at a flashpoint. The British took about 100 years to integrate the north east into the Empire and that too loosely in the form of autonomous regions, and Indian government in its typically hypocritical brinkmanship, wants to accomplish  this through the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act).

In India, since most civilian systems are dysfunctional, the dependence on the army for solving a problem is quite natural. We believe, having called the army out of the barracks, the problem will get automatically solved.

Army is never a solution. It can maintain status quo or at best status quo ante, and temporarily freeze frame adversarial positions, but can never solve them. To solve a problem, statesmanship and political will are needed, which none of our governments exhibit.

The anniversary of the North London riots triggered by a cold blooded point blank shooting of a black Mark Duggan by the British police coincided with the London Olympics and hence got no attention. And the criminal consumerism, vandalism, bootlegging that colonies of London witnessed post the shooting of Duggan was seen by the whole world.

But the British government literally read the riot act. In less than one year, the rioters got sentenced. Mark my words, in less than one year. In India, in one year the investigation agencies will not even able to frame a charge sheet. The culprits were mostly blacks. The punishing committee was ironically chaired by an Indian origin person.

In such cases of looting and rioting, the max that you can sentence as per the British Law is about 3 to 4 months. But the accused on an average have been sentenced for 16-18 months. How and why? It is not about rioting, looting or vandalism, it is about challenging the state, and state retaliated. Those who will challenge authority, will not be spared. It is a message that the courts unambiguously sent.

And now you will see how the Maruti Udyog case will be handled. It will go on for years without conviction. Also the culprits responsible for the mass exodus of the NE Indians, one, may never get caught, and if they do, will never get punished.

I am for the freedom of speech and if facebooking is a modern method of expression, than I don’t want it to be gagged. But if the website is being used for anti-national activity, the managers should be jailed without bail. Do it once and then see the seriousness that it drives in for situations in the future. The British government tracked the inflammatory messages being propagated on FB and also tracked panic creating and rabble rousing tweets and detained the authors of them all. But the British can do it. The Americans can also do it. Because they love their country and we don’t. 

And the neo-intellectuals can debate no end to the detriment of communal harmony and national security.