Comments | skthewimp: The Gujar protests

skthewimp

The Gujar protests

Jun 04, 2007 23:27

Last year when people here rioted following Rajkumar's death, the HTs* and the TDCs** cribbed about how Kannadigas are a violent and senseless community and all such. Look what's happening now in Rajasthan and Delhi!

Anyways I was wondering what could be the rationale behind such violent protests. i can think of only one reason. by protesting the ( Read more... )

politics, arbit

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anonymous June 4 2007, 23:26:50 UTC

i hate all the TDCs, the loud mouth, how i wish i could just sew them up

mihirsaxena June 5 2007, 08:14:41 UTC

Nice dude, really nice. Just coz you cant do anything in real life to "sew them up", you come and comment here and then go back and beat your chest ??

anonymous June 6 2007, 04:32:59 UTC

are you getting offended buddy, are you a TDC then, I am only referring to TDCs and not TDs, the very existence of a c there justifies me.

skthewimp June 6 2007, 15:06:24 UTC

ok now you're using words like "buddy" etc.

you're definitely a TDC!

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Latest Trend anonymous June 5 2007, 04:17:02 UTC

Wondering, how these days blogs have become a public place where one can come up with all the personal bashing towards a set of people (with common cultural nuances)... one such example is here ->

http://mydayzwithmyself.blogspot.com/2007/04/main-noodle-ka-stall-kholna-chahta-hoon.html

Though most of it is practiced under the umbrella of "freedom-of-thought" ..

Btw, pretty interesting acronyms for the northies :)

mihirsaxena June 5 2007, 08:13:05 UTC

Atleast the gujjar's had some issue (however screwed up that was) to become violent. What was the point behind the violence when Rajkumar died ?

Secondly, the rationale behind the protests ? Well isnt it pretty obvious that in our country nowadays in order to get anything you have to collect a mob and go burn some public property ? You know no action will be taken against you (when have u heard someone was arrested for burning a state roadways bus in some such protest ?) and in the remote case when police does something to control the crowd, you will have hajar people/politicians/humar rights activists turning up to raise a voice against "Police Brutality".

skthewimp June 6 2007, 15:09:23 UTC

i know
woresht it is. this free for all. and vote bank politics etc. makes it impos to crack down on these protests.

but the least we can do i think is to increase the size of the police force. i mean, the guys we have now are grossly insufficient, especially with rising crime, riots, etc.

that would also help solve the unemployment problem just a little bit!

mihirsaxena June 6 2007, 15:42:11 UTC

well, to increase the size of the police force, the government needs more money. Which it is busy spending on either MP's/MLA's salaries/perks or other such very important things.

anonymous June 5 2007, 13:08:42 UTC

Some events in the recent past:
Karnataka: Riots over Rajkumar/Cauvery issues
TN: Riots over familial succession(!)issues in the DMK party
Assam: Murders of hindi speaking ppl
Rajasthan: Gujjar violence
Gujarat: Communal violence
Every state has it's own problems with sectarian violence...doesnt matter if the culprits are KT or HT or TT....all of them suck equally!

Guhan

mihirsaxena June 5 2007, 16:22:42 UTC

u bet. Bloody nowadays in our country even if a mosquito is killed by someone, i am sure there will be 10-20 people ready to come out and do some torching/burning of effigies etc.

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mihirsaxena June 6 2007, 11:16:46 UTC

its a free for all dude :)

skthewimp June 6 2007, 15:11:04 UTC

oh yeah meenas have done well for themselves in getting a good share of the ST quota, and it's not just in Rajasthan i think.

i mean if the protests hadn't been called off we'd've seen massacres much worse than all those hindu-muslim battles!