| Biswo |
Posted
on 24-Sep-01 12:25 PM
Naam-ho, badnaam-ho, gumnaam na ho.
"Be either famous, or notorious, but don't be vanished."
(Indian proverb)
Lalu Yadav, a flamboyant chief minister of Bihar, has often tricked his fellow
countrymen to accept him as stateman by following this motto. Using all his
amusing shenanigans, he inveigled the votes of his countrymen in each elections,
and made his way upto New Delhi, where he was once rumoured to have seriously
contended for the position of PM.
What all his deceptions couldn't hide was the fundamental truth: that he was
misusing democracy,& that he was a fraudulent fellow who had no idea of how to
take care of his fellow citizens. According to one study, Bihar, if separately
considered as a country, is the world's poorest country, with annual per capita
income hovering around US$100.00, and still, the populace of Bihar seem to be
cozily comfortable with his and his wife's leadership.
People say these days his saalaa(the brother of his wife) is the real person who
calls the shots.Patna, as one visiting Nepali journalist said in Himal, is the place
of past, where 'XXX lotion lagaao, daad khujali bhagaao'(use XXX lotion, and heal
the scratch) are still the major advertisement, and where there are no signs of
burgeoning IT industry that India proudly claims to be leader of.
Why Lalu in this web discussion? Well,we know Lalu's deeds have repercussion in
our nation.Lalu's state is ,naturally, a bastion of untold revolutionaries, rebels, dacoits and,yes, social reformers. In Lalus's Bihar(Bihar, in the 60s was a paradigm
of state in India, it only degenerated lately), people are killed just because they
are from other castes, or follow other ideologies. Resemblance? Yes, Our Maoists
have their shelters there. They also buy arms there. And as it is evident lately,
their dreamland may be same as that of Bihar.
How else can we define the rustic behavior of ANNFSU(R) when it sets in fire the
buses of school kids below Madan library? How else can we define the 'cutting of
tuppi' of Brahman scholars in Sanskrit schools? How else can we define the soiling
and smashing of our statues in Dolkha and other temples? How can we define the
forceful consumption of beef to Hindus?Are our Maoists brethrens doing
what I quoted in the first lines (become famous or notorious..) or is it the core
belief that they intend to implement in the later days?
I think this is the pert time we all unite and oppose these barbarics. When Jiang
Kai-Shek, a corrupt Chinese leader of pre-Mao China, fled China, he took care in
taking a lot of thousands-year-old Chinese arts with him to Taiwan. Why? He
once observed,"Never believed those philistines from villages could understand the
importance of these valuable arts." A lot of those arts which he left in China were
later smashed, and thrown away by Jiang-Qing's Cultural Revolution freaks in 70s.
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