Defeating violence

Poverty is one of the main underlying cause of violence broadly termed as terrorism. Alleviation of Poverty alone can change the world scenario to a peaceful one. It is the poor, struggling for their daily bread, who get inspired by fiery speeches to take up a gun and fight for their
rights. Nothing is wrong in fighting for one's rights and thus we cannot dismiss the
word "terroism" and put it away in a black list.We cannot cutoff innocent people who
were never even armed, by labelling them as supporters of terrorism. USA has defined
things in its own sick way and labelled every non-american an enemy of their country,
and thus have begun to acquire an image they will never be able to erase from the
public mind for centuries to come, and this happened when the bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima. This image of a vengeful USA was imprinted on millions of dying people
during the WWII and these imagesof America still cause upsurges of hate against
America.
Exploiting the poor has always been a racist thing. Britishers were the world's first
colonisers, and their hunger for colonies has given rise to America, which is indeed a
free colony now, free from the Queen's rule, but it has the same seeds from which all
british colonies sprang up.

However cool the americans appear to be, they always have a "dagger in the cloak"
policy haunting them.The hatred they aroused is impossible to blame on anyone else but
Americans themselves. yet there is a way out for Americans and that is to woo the rest
of the world, and they do so in their own ways, sometimes going so wrong, that they
sink deeper into the hellhole they are creating.

After three major disasters (Japan,Vietnam and now Iraq) America has still not yet
learnt the art of non-interference. This is where India takes the lead, and India's
non-interference policies are well regarded worldwide.

The rationale behind non-interference was spun out by Gandhi, the main architect of
modern India.His logic was simple:- Until we have our own house straightened up neat
and prim, we cannot dream of fixing the neighbour's house, and thus a policy of
non-interference was adopted,promulgated and even constitutionalised.Emphasis was
given to straightening up India from within, building up India the right way, but then
the process began to be sabotaged by greedy politicians.They tried everything to rule
the masses, they tried imitating the british and failed, Nehru was the first of the
immitators.His 17 year rule ended when he died of a urinary dysfunction, the details
of which may be juicy but better avoided in this discussion.

Why I say Nehru was an immitator is that he began to promote westernisation without
realising its implications and their inbuilt pitfalls.While Hindi should have rightly
been chosen as a National Language and it was chosen,importance to Hindi was set
aside. English was given great importance.It simply caused a rift in the echelons of
power, and we have hindi speaking politicians like Laloo Prasad Yadav who are very
expert in their job, effective and successful too, and we have great English speaking
politicians like Mr P Chidambaram who cannot exist outside the system if they were
stripped of their English. We have Tamil speaking politicians who support anything
that helps them enrich their coffers, and we have Malayalam speaking politicians who
make use of the Middle-East workers to enrich their coffers.We have telugu speaking
politicians who are racing towards modernisaion under the leadership of a computer
savvy man, we have Bengali speaking politicians who are ready to die for a cause. It
is a shame some of the male politicians are not ready to die for a cause.Mamta
Bannerjee showed her mettle when she faced stones and brickbats fighting for the
people who had risen to defeat upmarket companies like the Tatas in their
landgrabbing spree. It is a shame no politician stood up by her side.

We also have bengali speaking politicians expert at covering the financial blunders of
the existing government, and we have urdu speaking politicians who love to shake hands
with pakistan.

You see we have many politicians who are great at their level, but none who can reach
out to the masses and impress the poor people, so we will eventually have a vacuum
which will be filled by terrorism and is being filled by terrorism in the form of
PWG,MAOISTS,ULFA,HUJI and a host of other organisations in Punjab and Kashmir which do
not nod their heads when the government in Delhi says so. Those of you who think India
is still safe, you better awaken...jaag jao.

Much as I would like to see Peace in India, and worldwide,the solutions are only
limited. We have to empower the poor, make them feel their existence is
worthwhile,cheer them up and help them along, we have to wean them away from taking
the gun into their hands and turn them towards taking up pen and paper,taking up
ploughs and seeders, driving their way up to a mass revolution which peacefully
expands above the petty politicians counting their votes like pountry farmers counting
eggs.

Weaning away the weaker sections is not as easy as a politician might think. (I
wonder if they can think at all)It requires years of hard work, which none of them
have put in.It requires a faith in the goodness of equality, a faith in honesty, a
faith in truthfullness, a faith in Gandhi's ideas, a faith so strong that none of the
ideologies that have influenced them and caused them to take up weapons remain in
their minds. Their minds have to be brought around, to a path of peace.Who can do this
is one question which some people are answering practically by performing actions that
will give results inthe distant future.