This
book is the first of its kind which documents the failure of democracy in India
and the authors expresses deep desire to acknowledge the truth, stands for
truth, spread the truth to liberate the people from post British Slavery and
confer upon them “Civic Sovereignty”.
The book “At War” Four
Pillars of Falsehood and Public of Republic, justifies that Executive, Judiciary,
Legislature and the Press are Four Pillars of Falsehood. As each one of these institutions has been achieving
exactly the opposite for which they pretend to be striving for.
After Independence,
Northeast States were accorded step motherly treatment in the Constitution of
India. Nehruvian integration through the Assam model was another historic blunder
as it considered Assam to be the last outpost of the Indian Civilization in the
east, followed by giving away Manipur’s Kabaw valley to Myanmar without
consulting the people of Manipur.
Naga issue could have
solved a long time back if Dictator Nehru studied the political history of Naga
Hills, Assam and Manipur. The failed meeting
of 1953 seemed to indicate that no more room left for a compromise or even
talks between the Government of India and the Naga leaders. Today, entire
Northeast is suffering with the divide and rule policy of successive
government.
Seven of India’s
Northeastern states facing insurgency since last 60 years in one form or the
other, 23 of its states facing left wing extremism, state of Punjab burnt in
this fire for a decade and Kashmir continues to simmer in the heat of this war,
that state never wants to win but continue, since it provides strongest excuse
for using militia with impunity and sustain proxy war of state against its civil
society.
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| Jawaharlal Nehru speaks to Naga people in Kohima in March, 1953. (Photo: The Hindu) |
The authors blame Nehru
politicizing Indian army and using it to silence the political dissent in the
State of Assam against Naga Hills. Even
after freedom from British Colonial rule, the colonial Indian military raised
on the principles of divisive politics to enslave the natives, turned into
effectively handy tool, use Sikhs against Nagas in Nagaland, Gurkhas against
Meeteis in Manipur and everyone against Muslims in Kashmir.
Kabaw valley was handed
over to Burma (Myanmar), without consulting the people of Manipur and in return
Nehru gifted the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) of 1958 to the entire
Northeastern States of India, which empowers even a Lance Naik to shoot and
kill anyone on mere suspicion that he may disturb public order, arrest any
person under the garb of reasonable suspicion and enter any premises without
search warrant. In fact, living with this law is living under the barrel of gun
with death just a bullet away. “No Appeal, “No Argument”, No Advocates” but
gory street of death for freedom of expression in the state propounded as
World’s largest democracy.
“At War” Four Pillars
of Falsehood and Public of Republic is contemporary history of crisis in India,
with tales from conflict and persecution, unleashed upon the people of this
nation by authoritative state, as witnessed and analyzed by a frontline
operational insider.
The authors states that
post British India is engulfed in perpetual war of state on its own public of
republic as a design of governance to preserve power formation that functions on the principles of
presenting falsehood as the gospel truth and continue unhindered economic
exploitation.
In Manipur, 1528 cases
of fake encounters, and another hundred more are missing from the Police and
Army custody. Authors warned that the
biggest threat to the lives and liberty of people of post British India comes
from the work culture of police, paramilitary and military, with lives being
devoured with impunity. These victims
depend on “Judiciary”, the last hope of those, who believe to live within frame
work of rule of law.
The authors advocates
that the only direct and indirect beneficiaries of spiraling crime and
corruption, turned to be Police and Judiciary – thus flourishes the mutual
relationship between crime and “Pillars of Falsehood”.
The book is a firsthand
account and analysis of tragic events of the role played by police and armed
forces, functioning of which provokes conflict, and prepares fertile ground for
terrorism and insurgency to prosper and vicious cycle of violence through
retributive justice continues, with a heavy price being paid by common man with
his life and liberty in peril.
The authors blames that
“Executive” pillar of democracy, manned by dumb babus of IAS/IPS without any domain
expertise, devoid of problem solving aptitude and devoid of organizing
abilities. Ironically, most of the babus
posted in the Northeast states don’t know the geographical and political
history of the region.
The author have worked
as a front line operation officer of BSF and posted in the towns and villages
of North, Northeast and Western India. This book represents the eyewitness
account of the grotesque scenes of violence as a fall out of ill trained criminalized
militia.
The author also suggest
to liberate citizens from the shackles of colonial laws and institutions and
redefine citizen’s relationship with the state, that of a sovereign, the
independent, to whom every state actor is directly accountable.
In the book, a chapter
titled, “The Freedom of 1947- Plot, Traitors and treacheries” exposed
everything which needs to be informed to the youths of Nation. Masses that had
played foot soldiers with huge sacrifices were overnight transformed from
Colonial slaves to petitioners at the mercy of autocratic power formation
assumed by Nehru.
This book highlighted
the pitfalls and tales of existing Indian institutions in general and armed
forces and their role in particular, in provoking the ongoing political crisis
into full blown insurgent violence in the Country.
This is an honest
effort to inform the common man “why it is happening” and to prepare public
opinion as a sequel to the campaign for much needed radical but democratic
structural changes India has been longing for!
