In the post http://www.weonepeople.com/oneworld/2009/12/reading-anothers-mind.html I suggested sending the police and army to tackle the Maoist problem in India was the wrong solution. I am pleased to note that the government of India is now of the same opinion (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8427622.stm) seeking negotiation instead.
While negotiation is a step in the right direction it is not enough. The Indian government and indeed all Indians should recognize there is a large section of our society that is grossly unprivileged, a section of our society that has been submerged, subjugated and suffocated over centuries by the privileged. I think the educated and privileged of today, those of us who have access to the internet for example, should unequivocally agree to correct the imbalance and uplift our poor disenfranchised brethren. This does not require negotiating. It requires decisive unilateral action, for example setting up a national corp of our youth - high school and college students for example - to visit our slums and villages, build a bond with our downtrodden and help uplift them so we as an Indian society are liberated from the schism of privileged vs. unprivileged and save us from the tumult of a huge social revolution which otherwise is on its natural way.
The disparity between the privileged and unprivileged in India did not happen by negotiation.
Unbelievable. Just simply unbelievable.
Posted by: Jordan Spiz'ike | 12/14/2010 at 04:12 AM