West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s recent comments on the violence in Nandigram evoke reactions from..
What we have here, of course, is one more in an ever-lengthening list of nauseating Indian justifications of killing: Rajiv Gandhi telling us in 1984 that when a big tree falls, the earth shakes; Madhukar Sarpotdar telling the Srikrishna Commission in 1996 that because some Muslims burned a Hindu family to death, the Shiv Sena was justified in slaughtering Muslims across Bombay; Narendra Modi telling us in 2002 that every action must have a reaction; any number of people who ask “Yeah, but who STARTED it?”; and now a glib Budhhadeb Bhattacharjee.
and Gargi:
I can just see the next session of Parliament….. the BJP will shout Nandigram, the CPI(M) will shout Gujarat …. and in the melee that ensues nothing will get done, and no one will get justice…..
When you see images, and testimonies… and the sheer terror in the eyes of those on camera, you wonder at the State and its stupidity…. Why is the Indian Government chasing people into the arms of the Naxals?
Indeed, whither justice?
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