[Assam] Armed Revolutions obsolete: fact or myth

[UTTAM BORTHAKUR]

>>>>>>    Wow, Uttam, you sure put together one comprehensive list.

*********    Chandan Da, but I miserably failed to include the latest and
quite successful 'armed revolution' of this century!!!!!!!!!
The one that has changed the face of Nepal. It has turned Nepal from a Hindu
State to a Secular One..... at the least.
It came to me, when I was reading a link in trying to understand the soft
underbelly of the Indian State that is allowing the Maoists to gain in
recent times !


Wow, Uttam, you sure put together one comprehensive list. But you know what?
My guess is that it is that damned English language problem that gave birth
to the OBSOLETE theme that has been going around for some time, around
India. I saw the same argument in The Sentinel, the Assam Tribune etc.
regarding the ULFA and all the other regional conflicts also in the near
past. I am not sure who the genius was behind the argument, but it sure
picked up a following. The proposition is based on the notion that man has
become enlightened enough to be able to resolve conflicts peaceably thru the
institutions of a liberal democratic state with a rule of law, without
having to take to arms. IF it were a wish, I would be all for supporting the
wish. But if it is presented as a fact, as you have clearly shown, the
premise has no foundation. It is an unadulterated myth, like so manyother
Indian myths. The other point here to take note is either the ignorance or
willing omission of the propagators of the myth that the Indian state has
been willing or is able to, in fact, engage in a sincere and credible effort
to prevent, de-escalate or end such conflicts, spanning half a century and
counting.If India's intelligentsia is so ignorant or apathetic of this
appalling failure, resulting in the inability to reform its institutions of
state, then its democracy thumping is little more than a hollow and
ritualistic exercise, designed more to attract approval of the West that it
so craves, but in fact having little care about the vastforgotten of its
own.c-da