After the KSU rally, even i was taken aback by the violence that followed but i supported their cause. However, it surprise me now as how people are quick to condemn these acts without consideration as to why such act happen. In any revolution, violence has always been a vital part of the struggle if the continuous plea for reforms and development falls on deaf ears. How long can we shut up and eat hay while the powerful eat cakes? Why are we allowing ourself be the minority in our god given land. It is our right to fight with might. How dare they threaten us with trade ban(as per shg times report) and how dare they try to dictate us.
I say long live the KSU, and other ngo's who got balls to fight for my right.
I say Awake oh Khasi people and see that we are now the minority.I say long live the KSU, and other ngo's who got balls to fight for my right.I say Awake oh Khasi people and see that we are now the minority.
I say OCCUPY MEGHALAYA!!!
This is a Facebook status of a group with little less than thousand members liking its posts and the page.To have a status such as this only indicates the insecurity of a small community that has stayed curled up in its beautiful hills, contented within its gyre. A paradise for many, the land hasn't as yet "developed" much.
Just four days back on the 4th of April 2013, the violent rampage of a vibrant location in Shillong stood as a reminder. Demand for an inner line permit, demand for asking the outsiders to go back (Indians have replaced Simon who are now to go back!), call for occupying Meghalaya just jogged most of our memories who grew up in a volatile part of India steered by a certain students' union that it is a déjà vu for those who have been living with it since the attainment of statehood status from Assam in 1970.
Most of these chaps who indulge in the brutalizing the "others" act after a nod from the students' union. Unleashing the well nurtured hidden anger leads to loosening of the purse strings of the pacificists. More hooch flow, some celebratory non-tribal bashing and then the world becomes rosy again. Staying "Indian", though by accident comes with its share of benefits, best understood by the minions of those who swear on their blood for their identity and trade it with the first possible sign of a better life.
The saddest part is Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya often is in news for wrong reasons. In any case mainstream media like the Govt in the center refuse to acknowledge their existence. There is either Chinese incursion or the ethnic riot which manages a few second airtime and couple of hundred words in the print. Rest do not matter.
Incidences like this only reopen the wounds and keep it festering.
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Incidences like this only reopen the wounds and keep it festering.
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Nice blog and the point well made. Unfortunately the educated people are not doing it. The people who will be reading this blog are all educated people. How can you pass the point across to the grass root level or the hooligans is the question to be asked...anyway, like thousand others I have stopped thinking about that place's welfare long back. I am just worried bout my parents and relatives to still live there..the world is much bigger and there are bigger issues to deal with....thanks for sharing the blog. It was very well written with very good command of the point...
ReplyDeletevery well written!! commendable!I am keeping my fingers crossed that this was a one off incident and wont repeat
ReplyDeleteGrowing with it, living in it and probably will die bearing the agony of humiliation in my own country.....this is yet another voice...this is a forum of literate people even if not educated in the truest sense of the term...and sadly such literate people are very much part of people who spread venom .......hopefully they will read and realise that someday we too will voice our pent up feelings in the most sophisticated manner....unthinkable to people with narrow vision
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