Tuesday, April 19, 2011

MOVE NOW

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To expectations, the response in the local elections in J&K has been overwhelming and heartening: That would be the official tepid response to the history unfolding there. It is now time to take up local issues to their collective logical and really visible conclusions.
It’s all ok to have a feel good attitude and try to sleep for a while, but therein lies the danger of the feel good factor. Complacency sets in and the next round of madness waits for such a response. The move to integrate the local bodies into the mainstream and the speeding up the deliverables will set the time line for a positive societal response towards ‘alienated’ “mainland”. Geelani must have felt that he’s getting left out and so now- though he eats out of India’s soil, he still feels he’s not part of it- he lets out a feather towards the pundits. It is also the time to acknowledge that the groundswell is not in favour of guns now and talk tomorrow for awhile before the next load of ammunition arrives. People want to live and love like everyone does and reap and enjoy the fruits of hard, honest labour. The army has no role: more so now than before: in the streets of the entire state but only at the borders and ensure that the multifaceted nuts do not cross over. The police and para forces have to learn that after Egypt there is also awareness and readiness to respond to their high handedness and that is to be avoided for it will engulf the entire sub-continent given the complacent governance.
But it is not only complacency but a deficit that we are facing on all fronts especially when we show our willingness to talk to the guys from across the border without involving the control button: the army: and all the gestures and so called soft diplomacy will remain eyewash. Sir Creek can be solved overnight as all indications suggest. Trade can grow multi fold levels as reality indicates. Deliver at the local levels and see the response to the next democratic process. We need no more CBM’s. J&K will integrate itself and say we are not alienated; we are part of the “mainland”; nay we are the start of the great sub continent called Bharath-India.  

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