These deafening silence make me edgy.

I'm totally surprised by the deafening silence emanated from Churachandpur side.As announced earlier by the agitators there should have been a blockade along the National Highways in Manipur from the 1st to 5th of February(my last post).

My last post started with this line--

"That the agitators in Churachandpur had chosen 1st to 5th Feb as the first leg of their ptogramme of agitation should act as an eye-opener for everybody".


So,if we read this deafening silence together with the first line of my last post,it is appropriate to state that some constituents within the Manipuri society are afraid of this eye-opener.

If we can have a glimpse of these constituents,we would be truly enlightened.Are these constituents mainly concentrated within the hill districts of Manipur?Or do they have their counterparts within the valley districts as well?

Even as I'm groping in the dark in trying to map out the probable contours of these constituents,another deafening silence does not fail to assail me.This time it's the deafening silence emanated from within the power corridors of Manipur.Isn't it a little unusual for the Chief Manister of Manipur to maintain a complete silence regarding the consttruction of a temporary market shed for those women vendors pushed out to the streets by the recent earthquake?It's to be seen in the backdrop of how the Chief Minister had made a personal mark in organizing a daring market construction along a strip of street,that too,within days of the earthquake.After some squabble with a political novice,the Chief Minister have mysteriously been keeping a complete silence.

To me,it's intrigueing.Many questions have already started invading my mind.

Has those same constituents (who are afraid of the above eye-opener) started exerting their influence over the Chief Minister to make him maintain a complete silence over the temporary market shed?

I know it's a little outlandish,even a paranoid,question.But if we go a little deeper into the issue of construction of temporary market,we will begin to understand why it's a must to ask this question.Without the construction of the temporary market shed,the Ima Market would remain dysfunctional.In other words,the epicentre of Manipur's social and political movements would remain dysfunctional.In this sense,we are under attack at the very core of our social and political life.

Who are the attackers?

In trying to answer this question,we need to put all our data into the right perspective.Like,has the constituents of our interest been already lulled into believing that a dysfunctional Ima Keithel means an agitation-free Manipur? From there,it would be easy to feed the insidous propaganda that an agitation-free Manipur would usher in a peaceful and developing society.The key words are 'peace' and 'development'.If there are sproutings of enough constituents (to gain critical mass in the downslide of the society) who are lulled into equating a dysfunctional Ima Keithel with 'peace' and 'development',then our society is truly encircled.It only needs an occassional parading of Muivah and co to remind them of their state of encirclement so that Manipuri society slavishly falls into the line dictated by the 'attackers'.This would,in turn,results in total containment and subjugation of Manipuri society.Of course,these keywords give us a hint in identifying the attackers to our social and political life.

So,is it the case of the constituents of our interest not able to differentiate propaganda from information?

In trying to give a finishing touch to my observation,it's reasonable to see Manipuri society containing some constituents who want to lead it but still continually fed with propaganda from some sophisticated power centres.This throws up the possibility of the existence some competing constituents who go by hard data in trying to lead Manipuri society.

So,who are those constituents continually fed with propaganda? And,who are those competing with hard data at hand?

Who's who? where is the true picture?

At this juncture,I'm totally excited in finding the 23rd July 2009 shooting in the news.The present situation demands that I add a lenghty quote from my 2009 post--

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"But the line-'the true picture would emerge'-is extremely intriguing.

Of course, I have a theory!!

It's a foregone conclusion that Tehelka has neither the will nor the
resouce to get the phtographas and accompanying story by itself. So?
Well,let's put in a negative sense. If it were not something to do with
the rebel groups,there would already be claims staking laurels for
facilitating the Tehelka group to carry the story and the photos.

So the facilitator comes from the eco-system of the rebels.Let's call
the rebel group throwing up the facilitator as 'x'.

Now, there was a tumult here following the publishing of the
photographs. It's not hard to imagine all of the active cadres of the
bountiful rebel groups were all participants as the agitators in the
streets.

Here, one extremely significant development comes up. All of the cadres
who are not of the group 'x'would have participated in the agitations
with the deep feelings in their hearts that their groups' leaders were
not capable of producing the Tehelka feat. 'X' group is giving the lead
and they are following--they would have surely conscious of this fact.

Now, consider the public's likely impression. Around 23rd of July, the
group 'x' got hold of the photos and they managed to plug any leak of
the existence of them,even when the State Assembly was in session.
Now, the photos reached Delhi and the Parliament was also in session.
Here again, they managed to persuade Tehelka to carry the story and the
photos,still plugging any leak. Delhi's ruling would be very hungry for
such a leak!

Manipur State Assembly's session ended with the end of July. Still no
leaks. The Chief Minister was to lead the state delegation to meet the
officials of the Planning commission on the 2nd August. The news of the
photos was carried by the cable news in the evening of 1st of August,
thus giving the Chief Minister only the night of 1st August to react to
the development. Only when he reahed Delhi did he relaized the gravity
of the situation.

It's the masterstroke of a strategic execution.

The public is impressed by this masterstroke. And, the rebel cadres
have to admit to themselves that they are following group 'x'.

Then,isn't it the case the group 'x' getting the mandate from the
public?

So, the scenario line should run like this--'the true picture(of the
public giving the mandate to the group 'x' and all the other groups
following the lead the group 'x') would emerge'."
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So,after 7 years are we going to have the clear picture of who's who of constituents within Manipuri society who are aspiring to lead it?

Besides acting as source for this clear picture,it may even be a warning to the 'attackers'(who are targetting the very core of our social and political life).Again,I'm forced to quote from a 2009 post--

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"I got the news from Poknapham dated 13th of August.

The news is about china wanting to break up "Great Indian Federation".

I google the 3 words and this link comes up first in the search result list.

The article was written by Zhan Lue and published in the iiss.cn on the 8th August 09.

What's striking is that it was published on the 8th.

The photos of murder of an arrested person was published by Tehelka datelined 9th of August.It's usual for online edition to appear before the dateline.

In my mind,there seems to be a plan in bringing out the two publications almost simutaneously.

Is the same player producing the masterstroke of a strategic execution(my last post) also the inspiration behind the publication of the chinese viewpoint?

I cannot help asking this question."
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So many things happened during the intervening seven years and all these sure make me edgy.