According to the press, televisions, the CPM has 'taken over completely" the Nandigram, the troubled place where the villagers are resisting a forced land acquisition.Still we hear the killings, deaths, evictions, cries...
Now this is going to be happened many places in India: the so-called developments supported by the state governments projects with the private enterprises, say, mainly with the Real Estate Giants. Oh, Giants they are, the hungry they exhibit is as vast as our villages, underdeveloped, less literate, less informative, compare to the cities we love to exhibit to the world : a growing economy, ready to take over the world as another superpower in making.
Are we are threatened by a 'forced democracy' entertained by the powerful political parties and their supporters? Is that the very question of development is alienated from the very question of development which a place, a country looks for? Nothing been taken care off : the system allows you to speak, to protest, but the very system broke you, in all means, too. Is that the situation our 'huge democracy' is marching forward? This could be noted as a world phenomina, speaking a language of globalism. However, through a 'party', through a government, when the likes of a 'few' is get implemented, then a 'lot' is deserves an unanswerable situation. Democracy allows one to question, but it can deny the answer.
Nandigram has given a clear picture : the development is on. You want or not is less important. But the development needs.
The "PARTY IS OVER'.
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Yes K,
Nandigram is giving the clear verdict: development is on.
But why from the same people who pretend to be on people's side ? And I heared from a friend who has a sociologist friend working in that project that if Tata is allowed to handle the resettlement issue, things would have been solved in a better way. We need not swallow this as such, but have to give a thought in that way. From my personal interetsed enquirries I knew that emotional binding to the land is not the main issue. It is, rather, the way they handle it, the pay they get for. Latest resettlement policies (mainly for SEZs) warrant for major hands and money from developers including alteranatives and job opportunities for affected community. But practically beurocracy and enterprises are not service oriented.
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