lawyers strike

is it self rule?

By Kulamarva alakrishna

Vienna,Tuesday,Nov 27,2007:It is rather painful to read in Indian newspapers in the heart of India´s
Uttar Pradesh State several terrorist bombs were set off killing innocents and causing injuries.The bombs exploded in courts.In response the main national opposition,the conservative Hindu fundamentalist party,Bharatiya Janata Party called for a State wide strike.I saw newspaper photos of the party´s subsidiary mob party known as Bajrang Dal or Diamond Guards showing off their brass clubs,normally used by actors on stage when played mythological episodes, roaming about the streets causing commotion.Then came the news,lawyers and judicial also joined the strikes! I can not imagine a situation like this in a self ruling democracy.In my imagination,democracy has a meaning if the citizen shows some discipline during times of emergencies like fire,flood disaster etc.let alone caused by anti-national forces and enemy´s advance elements unleashing terrorist attacks.Under such conditions, citizens of all hues join together irrespective of political differences to defend the society under attack.This we have seen in the U.S. in the wake of suicide attack on
11-09-2001 and later attacks in Britains by terrorists.I mention this to show the contrast we make in
india boasting as the =world´s largest democracy=.But the behavior behove well on the world´s
=largest doom crazy=.

A few years ago,I read a book by Mr.Kevin Rushby on India.It was called Children of Kali.The British author traveled from the southern tip of India, when brigand Verappan living underground in forests and caves as an outlaw doing business with politicians killed hundreds of police men to run his career in crime more than two decades.Mr.Rushby was reporting free India 50 years after the British left the country rule itself.He was tracing the routes of thugs, gangs of criminals who mixed
with pilgrims to kill them with the help of a coin hidden in kerchief before robbing the victims.The criminal gangs are nick named by him as Children of Kali.This was before the British era´s law and order situation in truncated India under about a thousand =maharajas=.After the British defeated Tippu Sultan of Mysore in Srirangapattanam,the British deployed a major General William Sleeman to eradicate the thugs.It took him a couple of decades to establish the rule of in the country.

As he traveled the country in the year 1999/2000, author Rushby saw clearly re emergence of organized crime all over India.He was hinting it was indeed not possible to segregate and identify
criminals,politicians and public servants.They all played multiple roles simultaneously to victimize
the citizen as could openly seen by a foreign tourist.His message then was Indian are unfit to rule themselves what we produly call =svarajya=!Even in 1981 just a year before his death a senior friend, Dr.Rudolf von Leyden, who had lived in India almost forty years beginning with war years,
was settled in retirement in his home country, Vienna. After a revisit to Bombay, where he had led Volkort Brothers company as its General Manager, he confided in me =Bala, law and order in
India has become a real problem=, as if forewarning author Rushby´s findings.

The political party, judicial/lawyer response to the Lucknow, Banarasi and other multiple blasts are not isolated incidents.When in Hyderabad a few months two simultaneous terrorist bombs exploded there I saw the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party had called for a strike.In 2003 when
In Gujarat´s Ahmedabad temple Aksharadham was attacked by terrorists, then the Union was ruled by a coalition led by the same Bharatiya Janata Party.At that time, the coalition partner from Maharashtra,Shiv Sena called a strike.

A strike may be a protest in normal society under specific circumstances.But when the society is
under attack from the enemy, I can not understand how citizens or groups of citizens are justified in diverting the energy of security agencies to help foreign forces! That apart then the same very
disruptive forces carry the banners of patriots!Is that not conclusive evidence India does not deserve =svarajya= self rule? (end)