Dedications

The crackdown on a peaceful demonstration and the right of every citizen thwarted by the government as if it was raiding a group planning to destabilize the nation, is nothing short of Emergency rule during the draconian Indira Gandhi’s time. This time it was a demonstration by Baba Ramdeo. I personally am not for or against Baba Ramdeo’s agitation. What I am against or surprised is at the government’s action on a peaceful agitation.

Has not a citizen a right to express his displeasure on something wrong, in a peaceful manner? What does one do when the system fails? What does one do when there is no faith in the judiciary or law? What does one do when everything is corrupt? Here is not someone who is acting like a Bollywood film hero taking the law into his hands, and trying to cleanse the system. Here is a man who just wants to protest peacefully by fasting.

Where the government has to use force it behaves like a eunuch. When innocent migrants in Bombay make an honest living by driving cabs, they are brutally beaten by local political parties with weird agendas; these political parties were not brought to book. Now these migrants are not from Italy. At the same time an Italian who remote controls the government can squash a peaceful protest, with high handedness. When Pakistan sends hundreds of militant trained terrorist into India, instead of retaliating India gets into negotiating and keeps going on its knees using cricket for politics to build friendship. If India could negotiate with Pakistan for decades and still not resolve any issues, what was the harm in negotiating with Baba Ramdeo? Why was instant results expected from an Indian who is protesting and decades spend negotiating with an enemy country?

Why was this yard stick not used with Anna Hazare? What is different from what Anna Hazare did to what Baba Ramdeo wanted to do? Both wanted to peacefully protest and had followers to fast with them, so what was the crime that Baba Ramdeo did that he had to hurled up like as if a criminal was caught and hauled up into a flight and thrown out of Delhi? Highlighting Baba Ramdeo as corrupt with the zillions he has made claiming a cure from pimples to cancer with his twisted art form of yoga, was this something that the government only realized when he wanted to peacefully protest on the issue of back stashed in foreign banks to be brought back to India.

What is so weird in Baba Ramdeo’s call for capital punishment for the guilty who have stashed black money overseas? Then think of it if an Ajmal Kasab a terrorist who is caught is not hung yet, how will the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists be ever hung in any life time. On the other hand how can anyone be hung in India, as it seems there are no hangmen in India? How much more weird can it get as it seems a making a noose is an art, as the rope needs to smoothened clarified butter, bananas, and hell knows what all gourmet recipe needs to be applied to a rope just to hang a criminal, in the name of humanity and reducing pain when hung.

Can criminals not be just shot or given a lethal injection and done with, or will it be only people who raise their voices in peaceful protests be treated with no humanity?