Saturday, February 13, 2016

The softpower and the real,fighting soldier.

As an aspiring writer,Im in a mood to try out the power of my imagination!

The first foreign troop participated in any 26th January parade is French.Exactly 76 French soldiers took part part in India's Republic Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi.

Another way of looking at the numbers 7 and 6 is 13.

See how I use my power of imagination to come to the number 13!

Today is 13th of Feb and we are again reminded that there are 9 bodies in Churachandpur still uncremated.These uncremated 9 bodies is the unnerving manisfestation of India's soft power.It needs no efforts to understand why the 9 are still kept uncremated.Outwardly it is everything to do with the three bills passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly recently.But the ultimate gameplan is the bringing forth of a separate administration for a specific ethnic community in the south of Manipur.Egged on by the soft power of India this particular ethnic community clearly understand that the three bills,which have absolutely no anti-tribal clauses,are merely the jumping ground for their coveted separate administration.

We have to read this together with Alternative Arrangement--yet another name for a separate adminstration for the North of Manipur,that too,for a particular ethnic community.This version of the separate administration is the decades-long agenda of this particular ethnic group,which,more recently,has been egged on by the soft power of India,which,lest we forget,is the same force aiming to form 'Akhand Bharat',comprising the whole Afghanistan,Nepal,Burma,etc.Although we tend to see these 'separate administration' movements as standalone local issues,the same force which has benn egging on them have clear geo-political facet,threatening,in the process,several countries,like China.So,it may even be wise to deduct that these countries,including China,may be keeping a tab on these seemingly local movements here.

The emerging picture clearly tells us of a Balkanized Manipur.

It's ominous that the number 13 is sought to be linked with the Balkanization of Manipur.Is there a French connection?

Here,it's worth while to note that Paris is the only capital city of the world,besides New Delhi,which took all the trouble of hosting exhibition of Paubi Lai.We may say that Paris,with all the museums and art collections,would nanturally interest in hosting an exhibition of artworks of ethnic origin.But somethng tells me that there is something more than that.

The only two development projects in Manipur,funded by foreign governmnts are the Imphal Sewage Project and Sericulture Project.The Sericulture Project was started with a lot of hope with the funds from Japan.Encountering the trademark redtape and corruption the Japanese had fled Manipur after completing the first phase of the Project.No amount of cajoling have failed to bring the Japanese back for the further phases of the Project.

Like the Japanese,the French would have encountered the same trademark redtapism and corruption.But the French seems to be deploying extraordinary patience in funding the Imphal Sewage Project.It's a common knowledge how the Imphal Sewage Project is faring.Isn't it 10 years they had used up but still the Project is uncomplete!?But the French are still persisting in funding it.Can we sense something in this extraordinary French persistence?

I know all the above can be dismissed as a pure rant of a blogger,with a tinge of a conspiracy theory!

But I'm fairly confident to say that the recent developments that point to the number 13 are not the figments of my imagination.Rather,they are dramatic development,delivering the proverbial jolts to us.

1) on the 6th of Feb,Imphal witnessed a huge rally to ward off the attack of the 'alternative arrangement'.To battle a softpower offensive,such rallies are the sufficient weapons.But we should not be complacent--we should keep exploring newer type of weapons.

2) At this juncture,we hardly notice a crucial development.Three days before the rally in Imphal,10 Indian soldiers were killed in Sichin due to an avalanche.Siachin is a glacier and avalanches are quite normal there.Casualities suffered on account of such avalanches are also quite normal and so we did not attach any particualr importance to the one,which killed 10 Indian soldiers.

3) But something funny happened 6 days later.On that day.one,amongt the 10 soldiers buried by the avalanche,was reportedly found alive.Media blitz told us that the soldier was brought to New Delhi by an air amibulance.He was reportedly kept under round the clock surveilanhce by a team of specialist doctors,both military and civil.The President,the Prime Minister,the Defence Minister,among other highest dignitaries visited the soldier,who was reportedly in a coma.

4) The catchword here is the number 6.The soldier was reportedly found alive 6 days after the avalanche,ie the 3rd of Feb.That comes to the 8th of Feb,which was also the day,29 years ago,on which the armed wing of a particular rebel group of Manipur was raised.Even upto this point of the development, we cannot deduct any far-reaching conclusion.All these might be just another coincidence.

5) We started to get suspicious when it slowly dawned on us that not a single newsman physically documented the comatose condition,medical facilities delevered or even a casual appearance of the soldier during the crucial days starting 8th of Feb.So,it slowly dawned on us that the whole Indian political and military classes had conspired to fake the entire story of the soldier.To what end?To connect the avalanche to that particular rebel group of Manipur(hinting at the emergence of a new type of warfare) and the uncremated 9 bodies in Chrachandpur.

6) Also with Churandpur?They made the 2 rebel groups represented by the ethnic community of Churandpur to convened a formal meeting for themselves on the 7th of Feb,which,in turn,convened yet another general meeting for all those spearheading the Churachandpur agitation.On the meeting of 9th Feb,it is apparent that the rebels had bulldozed the general public to agree to cremate the 9 bodies on the 13th of Feb.To make the story short,they had utilized the date immediately preceding and following the 8th of Feb(see how they so despearately tried to highlight the date, 8th of Feb!) to rake up the issue of 9 uncremated bodies.Their goal is to highlight the date,the 8th of Feb--they are not bothered about cremating the bodies.

Having come this far,we can be sure of one thing--there will be retaliation from India.They would target to kill 10 or more soldiers.They may be rebel soldiers of Manipur or the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China(assuming that the chinese are in constant watch for the conmtinuing play of Indian softpower in Northern and Southern part of Manipur).

If that ever came true,the long tussle inside Manipur deploying softpower is going to claim the lives of real,fighting soldiers(assuming that the 10 soldiers dead in Siachin is the case of softpower checkmated with yet another 'softpower with blood'and all the above deductions of mine are to be read together with this first-of-its-kind offensive in the history of human warfare).

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