New Delhi strikes back

We can see the first few signs that signal that New Delhi has started the diplomatic strike back.

First,some Tibetan official in Dharmasala, who demanded anonynity,told the news agency,AFP, that the Dalai Lama would statrt his Arunachal Pradesh visit from the 7th of November.

What's the neccesity of remaining anonymous in announcing the date of the proposed visit?

That answer came only a few days back when the newly elected Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister announced that MEA was yet to clear the Dalai Lama visit.

Someone was leaking the date and another one was telling that it had no official sanction--this is the fine arts of keeping things ambigous.

What would China do in such a situation? Is it proper to protest a visit based on news leaked to a news agency by someone who demanded anonimity? Again, would it be foolish to sit back and not to protest when some provincial official told the media that it had yet to be cleared by MEA?

Then came the more significant move.It came as an absolutely uninteresting news yesterday. To be honest, I had found it as the headline in a single Imphal-based daily(Naharolgi Thoudang). I read most of the papers yesterday but no other papers did not even see it to fit as a minor news item. Was it because it was so uninteresting?

The news was that the Group pf Mimisters reviewing the Armed Forces(special Powers) Act 1959 had submiitted its recommendation to the Prime Minsiter for the final decision.

Is it a diplomatic move by the Governemnt of India?

I think it is.

To understand this, we have to move back a few months in time. Then, Union Minister, Pallam Raju was addresing a CII leaders meet in New Delhi. During that address he told the audience that if China started to interfere in internal security of India, India would retaliate.

In plain language,he was telling China that their initial moves were noted with grave concern and they should desist from continueing further moves.

If any foreign country start moves that are seen by Indian as interferences in its internal security, the moves sould be initiated by the conditions in either the North East Region or Jammu and Kashmir.

In both the places, India can say the followings to deflect any foriegn country's consern:

1) In both the places there was full fledged democracies.

2)Even if there are cases of human rights violations or State terrorism, they are the responsibilties of the provincial leaders, who are agian elected by the local populace in free and fair elections.

So, what is the one single element which is indefensible in both the places?

Naturally, it's the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,1959.

Now, Union of India can announce to the world that the Act is under review by none other than the Prime Minsiter of the country.

Isn't it a good move?

No 3G for Manipur:BSNL

The news was datelined Kohima.

The General Manager, BSNL,North East Circle II,Mr Arjun Singh was inaugurating the 3G services in Kohima on the 24th of this month.

Speaking during the function he specifically was quoted as telling that there was no plan to offer the service in Manipur.

The reason?

Because, he was quoted as telling the gathering, Manipur is so full of rebel activities!

BSNL is playing the big brother part so naively!!

It is a fact that BSNL officials won't go that lenght without explicit instruction from the bosses in Ministry of Telecom.

So, the big questions is:

Are all the Minsitries in Delhi start withdrawing the 'carrots' for Manipur and the Manipuris?

If the answer is yes, then,it is reasonable to guess that the 'sticks' are probably right around the corner.

Beware, everybody!

I'm sure proud of our Ni-ngol Cha-kouba

Ni-ngol cha-kouba is a real show stopper. Everything has to wait for
its grand and smooth passage. I mean everything, be it the Ibobi
govt,the protest against the ghastly acts of psychotic Indian State or
the world-shaking strategic rethinking by the Chinese towards the
peoples of South Asia.

I know it would raise a lot of eyebrows if I start putting beautiful
adjectives in front of my own culture. But can anybody think of any
festival which have no nationalist or religious ingredients in it? We
can make a checklist of global peoples,be a huge one like Indian or
Chinese or the tiny ones numbering a few millions and try to pinpoint a
festival which has no nationalist or religious ingredients in it. I bet
it would be a pretty difficult task to pinpoint a single such festival.
And, we learn from history that nationalism and religion are the two
most dreaded human artifacts which lead to conflicts and wars. We can
make a huge lists for the necessity for nationalism and religion but if
we come towrds the likely causes of conflicts and wars,they are the
real culprits.

And, I'm sure proud that our Ni-ngol Cha-kouba is one of the rarest
human artifacts which have no nationalist or religious ingredients in
it.

For my part, I started to make preparations exactly three days ahead to
receive Ni-ngol Cha-kouba. I dusted off every conceivables articles in
my house. I cleaned my yards spotless!

On the grand day, I jumped out of my bed well before 4 in the morning
and rushed in evrything to make the paste to make the chicken for at
least one hour. For every chicken or meat dish I cook I had found out
that I could not find that crucial one hour to marinate the meat. And,
I was determined to find that one hour on the grand.

Inspite of jumping out of my bed well before 4 in the morning, I barely
made it. When I finshed making the paste, cutting the meat and savoring
the moment when I started the actual marination, it was already 9.30
am!

Gosh, it took such time to cook according to prescribed protocol!

But I was rewarded. Everybody seems to agree that it was best chicken dish cooked in the family--I mean, so far!!

Joseph Hmar and the psychotic Indian State

The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of Communist Party of China, made it a point to comment on the 'hegemonistic' designs of India towards the peoples in South Asia. It must be in its edition dated either 14th or 15th Ocotber because the Hindu could report it as its headline on the 15th.(My last post). It must be remembered here that the Hindu is one of the very few papers who has a permanent correspondent in Beijing.

Within the next 48 or 72 hours, Joseph Hmar came out openly against the present agitation for giving punishment to the police officers involved in the July 23 Khwairamband Keithel killings of 2 innocents in broad daylight.

Everybody knows that Joseph Hmar is very close to Indian Military establishments.

Here it must be emphsized that the same tactics of giving license to murders to police to suppress insurgency was successfully tested in Punjab by the Indian State.The same psychotic Indian State is letting its provincial government officials in Manipur to repeat the experimnet here.

In the case of Punjab, no neighbouring countries, be it Pakistan, China or Sri Lanka came to its rescue and as a result, there was free run of police brutality. In case of Manipur now, some neighbouring countries are starting to take note of the ghastly prctices of the psychotic Indian State.

What's the response of the psychotic India State?

Their response is the desparate act of showcasing a character like Joseph Hmar and try to engineer divisions within the ranks of the activists who are spearheading the present agitation.

Now, a very important question: SHOULD THE CASE OF LAWLESS POLICEMEN WHICH RESULTS IN JULY 23 MURDERS BE VIEWED AS INDIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS PER SE?

I don't think so.

Every neighbouring countries has the legitmate rights to be concerned about such murders licensed by the psychotic Indian State.

Hegemony,India and China

The rebels here call a general strike to protest the 'hegemonistic' merger of Manipur by the Indian Union back in 1949 on the 15th of October.

Now, the official mouthpiece of Communist Party of China says India has 'hegemonistic' designs in South Asia.

What's most significant is the timing of the editorial in the People's daily.

The Hindu has a detailed coverages.

Back in August, during the Tehelka episode,I wrote a post titled 'Is this also a part of the masterstroke'. Now, I think it's appropriate to reproduce the whole post here:


"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."


At that time, I could not go beyond mere speculation. But this time it seems to be established that Manipur's rebels has some sort of support from the ruling communist party of China.

Still in the midst

I'm still in the midst of adjusting myself to my new schedule.

It's not as simple as making myself go to bed at 10 pm and waking up the next morning at 6.

Every tiny and mundane things in my daily life needs to be adjusted to the new schedule as well.

It's pretty challenging job!

But I'm going slow and steady.

And I'm keeping the one basic thing very simple--DON'T GO NEAR THE COMPUTER AT NIGHT!