Naxalistan !

                Narayan is a bright young boy who has grown up in a quiet interior village in south India. A regular topper and an ambitious fellow, he moves to the city for his further education and cracks the JEE to enter into IIT Mumbai. He turns into a super geek and a hard core techie and like most IITans do, goes on to join the IIMs soon after. Being such an academically high profile guy, obviously the big guys pick him right out of college. But he refuses to join and thinks of doing his own thing and working towards his own vision. He starts out small in his hostel room and slowly starts growing with his tremendous will power and tones of peer contacts that you develop on passing out from the II’s. He toils day in and out and grows from micro to small to mid size. All his hard work starts to pay off and he is now being rated as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the country. Then there is the big IPO and Narayan deservedly becomes a billionaire overnight. He now has a big house, few cars and a comfortable but non-flamboyant lifestyle. A few days later – he is kidnapped and beheaded. Welcome to Naxalistan !

So what wrong did Narayan do ? Well, he enhanced his productivity and was rewarded deservedly and that made him into a cruel elitist who is ideologically an enemy of the poor – in Naxalistan. He is the rich who is going to become richer at the cost of keeping the poor where they are or making them even poorer. Narayan is the face of social capitalism and the good part of our democracy. And he is beheaded by the bad part of the same democracy. Beheaded by an ideology generated due to the consistent loopholes in the same democracy.

                Remember the last time you complained about the government not taking action or not paying attention to the poor. Well, the Maoists say the same. They claim to guarantee you a life and a world which is paradise-like. Where everyone is equal and all the resources would be allocated as per needs and not as per the efforts. Where the state will control and ensure that everyone is free. But there is just one small problem. You don’t have a choice for this freedom and equality. You have to accept and live it ;-). Just like your parrot gets food, water, balls and pipes to play with and all the attention. You have all that for you too – but ya..within the Cage !

                And what happens if you don’t want to accept this freedom-at-gunpoint. Well your equality giver sends you back to where you came from – upstairs. But in Naxalistan, this is justified. It would be considered as a sacrifice for a higher cause. It ok ! Mao China sent 50 million upstairs. But its Ok! They would portray it as a violent agitation against a sham democracy.

                Why is it then, that Naxalistan gaining all this strength day by day?  How come they spread over 200 districts in 20 states across India ! We got ourselves to blame. We chose leaders who would go into relatively less accessible interiors of India only during the election time, thus leaving all the remianing time for the Naxals to breed and grow. They want to keep Naxalistan away from the other parts of developed India and gain a firm holding into these major areas. Thats precisely why all the bombing of the roads and rail routes happens. They want to reach everywhere where the government doesn’t and more. Protecting every acquired area becomes their self proclaimed responsibility and when your ideology is supremely flawed, you got to blow bombs hard enough so that people don’t get to listen to the sane world outside. And now they are bombing public sectors too. No wonder Mr P. Chidambaram is perplexed as to what they actually want !

                Another reason could be that Our history books dont have a big detailed chapter on the fall of the Berlin wall. May be if kids learnt it early, many in Kolkata and AP rurals would at least think twice before becoming a part is Naxalistan  ;-).

                When people from across the border with foreign nationality encroach into our area violently – we call them terrorists and shoot them down. What do we do to people of our own nationality who encroach into our socio-economic lives violently ?