Saturday, November 1, 2008

avoiding continuous bomb blasts in India : What is the solution ??

Great topic for debate. There would be a lot which we will leave untouched on this sensitive yet the most important topic today

As Kautilya said, " To shed the weed, weaken the roots". Here, we need to look at the root cause of the problem. Unfortunately, when we look at the root cause of the problem, we see ourselves standing in front of a mirror. It is the unrestful, dissatisfied, misguided you and me (read youth) who is behind all this. And read me, we should not segregate this youth on basis of religion. We now have Malegaon if we had others. And the people (alleged to be) involved with Malegaon are far educated, (considered to be) civilized, powerful and established compared to those involved with others.

The root cause is :- till date (majority of) Indians have not identified themselves with India. You first belong to family then community then caste then sect then religion and then if there is some room left you belong to country ( though country belongs to you in every aspect).

So incidents like Godhra, Babri and the bomb blasts are more seen as attack on one particular religion->sect->Community.. on another and not from extremism on life.

We have to come up with measures both short term and long term, which control the damage as well as clear the weed of seperationism. Easier said than done, however, for a country like India we have to choose this path if we need to keep the country united under the umbrella of democracy.

A few short term measures could be (will elaborate in some next post on these)
S1. Make the intelligence more intelligent and deep rooted
S2. Make common man participate and make them feel that they are participating in the security of the nation
S3. Taking paced action on those found guilty : There is no use in keeping those found guilty in cellars and feeding them with nutritious food from taxpayers. There are quite a few who have accepted the charge ( and have no regrets about it). Prosecute (read execute) them and advertise about that in a manner that others think twice before getting into extremism. Human rights forums will keep crying (that's what they exist for). But you loose people anyway; either by keeping it loose on law and loosing innocent many people killed in blasts or keeping it tight on law and loosing a few suspects. I am personally fine with latter.
S4 : Penalize separatist forces like MNS etc

Long term
L1 : Planning our cities for a society rather that communities and religions
L2 : ...

More to come later

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