“The famine starts from Bangar ; the evil originates from Brahman”, goes the Haryanvi proverb, These words of wisdom describe with telling accuracy the current Indian politics. Trace any evil and the author invariably will be found a Brahman or perhaps Brahmanic ideology. Beginning with operation “Bluestar”, all the evil deeds in the recent past can be attributed to Brahmanic ideology of inequality, ritualism and exploitation. The massacre of 10 Sikhs in Pilibhit district of U.P. recently was master-minded by a Brahman police officer, R.D. Tripathi, and was executed by his subordinate, Brijinder Sharma. The bare facts of the Pilibhit incident are by now widely admitted: all the Sikh men and women travelling by a hired bus were unarmed; ten of them were separated and arrested by the police and shot dead in cold blood in what was shown as three separate incidents of police-militant encounters in Terai’s forests.

India’s political parties and the Brahman media reacted to the incidents in an interesting manner. The bureaucracy, whether in Luck now or in Delhi, supported the police criminality in no uncertain terms?  The political parties who have to keep so many things in mind first kept quiet. There was not a word of protest in the Indian Parliament on the first day of the incident. Then the incident was used as a stick to beat the B.J.P. govt in U.P. with. There were demands of enquiry by a team of Indian parliamentarians. The ruling party too joined the chorus even after a Home Ministry spokesman had defended the fake encounters. “The Congress (I) govt at the Centre faces an acute dilemma. If a similar incident had taken place in Punjab .It would not be severely exercised. But the fact that U.P. now has a B.J.P. govt provides a chance to the ruling party at the center to strike, principled postures.” writes north India’s Brahman mouthpiece, The Tribune. This dilemma covers the entire ruling establishment including the newspaper’s Brahman editor. The worry is not that the Indian State has committed an illegality and a criminal act. The worry is that the Punjab fire will spread to U.P.’s Sikh-dominated Terai region. The worry is that militants might strike back in Punjab to drive away Hindus. The worry is that the reactions will weaken the country and its minorities and minority regions alienated further.

 As noted by WSN earlier, the Indian State is in no need to introduce an element of liberalization in the political field even while certain measures in the economic sphere are being initiated not so much due to conviction as to compulsion. Thus we find thousands of young men and women being kept in India have crowded jails; thousands of them being tortured in India’s Brahman-run torture chambers; scores of them being killed daily, mostly in fake encounters as in Pilibhit. There is no mention of the need for urgent political reforms to satisfy the national aspirations of Sikhs, Kashmiris, Assamese or Tamils. The issue is just not India’s political agenda.

No wonder the Sikh, Kashmiri or Assamese nations are desperate. There is grave unrest in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam. The Brahman establishment controlling India’s political, administrative and judicial for a as well as the Press is determined to suppress the unrest even by the most brutal use of armed force. Indian security forces are increasingly getting alienated from the Sikh, Kashmiri or Assamese nations. The Indian State is pressing into its service such organizations with certain amount of credibility as the Press Council of India to whitewash the security forces’ atrocities. The case in point is a report of the P.C.I, on certain incidents of rape in Kashmir. The P.C.I. of course, cannot convince the world public opinion about the innocence of India’s armed forces. More ‘similar attempts will only further discredit the P.C.I, and its managers, What has this organization to say of the armed forces’ behavior towards the Sikh women of Sangha village in Amritsar district on May 25-27, 1991 Will it call the allegations of rape as connection in this case, too?

Our plea is that the western democratic nations must examine India a little more closely. Clapping at a few isolated economic measures borne out of compulsion rather than conviction as a sign of liberalization is ill-advised. Condemning Kashmiri or Assamese militants for abducting Brahmans or their servants without doing anything to secure the release of thousands of youths in Indian jails is hypocrisy. True liberalization in India will be when Sikhs, Kashmiris, Assamese and other oppressed nations got their due freedom from the Indian colonial yoke. Otherwise, there will continue to be more fake encounters, tortures, arrests, followed by retaliatory abductions, massacres and more turmoil against the Brahmanic evil.

Article extracted from this publication >> July 26, 1991