The valley and beyond
Indo-Pak tension
I fail to understand
how tension with Pakistan will be
escalated if India does or does not do something. The tension is already
stretched to such levels we are theoretically on the threshold of war with each
other. That a conventional war is not just across this threshold is also a
truth.
In the circumstance
India raising the issue of Baluchistan or giving arms aid to Afghanistan are
all par for the course. The pseudo intellectuals will talk of escalating tension…The
nitwit that I am I fail to understand this tension.
Or is it that I understand it much better than some others?
It was during those teen days when I lived in a house
surrounded by coconut trees, not very far from the sea in Kerala. The winds
during the monsoon days coming in from the sea were very strong…so strong that
mangoes from trees in the nieighbours’ house more than a hundred meters away
were flown into our courtyard. Yes, the coconut trees swayed dangerously. To
prevent coconuts and the coconut trees from falling on the house, steel wires
were tied to the top of such trees and pulled in a direction away from the
house and fastened to stakes. The tension created on the wire was to ensure
that when and if the tree fell it was away from the house. So a bit of high
tension is not always bad. The result depends on the direction and the force of
tension (if ever there is such a thing).
So I say let the
tension escalate, let the storms blow… the idea is to keep the house safe.
Stone throwing
My wife is in the
habit of colleting at least one stone from a new place we visit. But our search
for a stone around the White House in Wash DC, was futile. We did not find one
in the vicinity.
Our best strategy to
defeat the stone throwers in the Valley is to remove all stones from the
valley. Besides putting an end to stone throwing we can also enter the Guinness
records for the first stone-less valley in the world.
We can instead
introduce a scheme in which a sum can be paid for the stones delivered at
collection centers established at various places all over the valley. We can
fix the price by category and weight…that will not be a problem. With this
scheme we can generate employment in valley while getting rid of the stones!
Two birds with one
stone (or many stones?), shall we say?
I am not being
funny. When situation gets out of hand we can find solutions only outside the
box!!!
Sedition anybody?
Sedition,
of course, is not the same as seduction. But of late in India there are charges
slapped on all and sundry for sedition and seduction. The refrain is that some
people are attempting seduction through sedition. A few days back it worked the
other way. People were being seduced towards sedition.
While
sedition is an offence under sec 124A of the IPC seduction, if practiced
outside the confines of workplace may or may not constitute an offence. The
degree of penalty depends on the tools and methods used for seduction. But if
seduction is use as an instrument for sedition, it can be construed as an
offence under sec 124A of the IPC.
In
the annals of Indian history we can find many instances where seduction and
sedition have been used as instruments of state (monarchies were also a form of
state). Some such acts were condemned some were condoned. Some were even
applauded.
Even
today some of these acts are condemned, condoned or applauded…it just that we
the people do not get to know who does which for what!
