The Darjeeling Movement is all about the people and not about the politicians, is what I’d actually like to start this post with. There are, however, sentiments echoed far and wide along this tiny hill stretch, named the Darjeeling District, officially, but more popularly and what the “people” of this place want it called Gorkhaland, that this peculiar movement of the people is not so much of the “people” but of the power and of the agenda set across on a wider national or even international concern. Most bewildering is the fact that many people here, in spite of the education and socialization received and inculcated since they were tiny tots, still become dreamy eyed and impassioned to the degree that they choose to milk their eyes and ignore realistic agendas and constitutional arrangements required for the formation of a state within the Indian Constitution. Such is the case where an armed soldier chooses to un-arm himself and passionately dive into a swarm of enemy troops equipped with chain guns, automatic rifles, RPG’s and a host of other high-end killing machinery. To conveniently forget (in the name of Gorkhaland) the constitutional requirements, if not the fierce opposition to statehood, and ruin civic life and economy by constant and sometimes more-than-prolonged strikes is not madness then the definition of madness and insanity has to be thrown out of the window and Webster, Cambridge, and Oxford need to step their game up. Nevertheless this fact being well known among the educated and non-educated alike, life goes on with a blindfold.
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| Gorkhaland Movement is all about the people and not about the politicians |
There are, as I see, three parties intimately connected in this ‘twangle’ — the non-political civilians, the politicians and the political civilians, the fourth is the state government — and a fifth one watching from afar, from a vantage point enjoying the circus. This fifth one does not get involved in anything that goes on in the theatre. It merely chooses to focus on other seemingly more important news stories about Bollywood’s SRK and Sallu’s bromantic patch up. Well life can be entertaining at times, humorous and funny at other times, and sad or idiotic mostly.
Media is man-made, so it has to be man-governed. How hard is it to understand this fact? It bewilders me to hear people talk comprehensively about Mamata and her cronies singing the Gurung-run-round-the-Suntala-Bot Choir and at the same time, believe word for word the next day’s daily news about some high-handed claim to deliver Gorkhaland state, as it is supposed to be ‘the final battle’. (We wonder what’s happening in the battle). It’s like you doubting the dubiousness of a pyramid scheme and at the same time vouching for its validity by becoming a member of it. Or is it the other way round, i.e. you doubting the dubiousness and still vouching for it? Idiosyncrasies?? Well everyone’s got them. But a whole bunch of people having the same idiosyncratic behaviour is, well, like cogs in a well-oiled machine, all doing the exact same thing, perhaps closer to mass hypnosis. To put it bluntly, you are influenced by your mass media, and swayed and played by your emotional reaction to it. How difficult can it be to process this? The gray matter is all intact. It’s the white ‘milkyness’ that won’t wash off the eyes.
Source : thedarjeelingtoytrain.blogspot.in
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