It is with great pain to reconcile myself with the irrefutable signals(which are visible to an ordianary newspaper-reading layman) that most of the Manipur's 'revolutionary' leaders cannot see beyond the tangible.
Coming to an example,it now turns out that they are genuinely incapable of seeing the intangible behind the issue of Nagalim.All that they are capable of is to grapple with the tangible like meeting up the people managing the campaign for Nagalim,talking with them and making friends with them.That's problem solving of political kind(not to mention of 'revolutionary' kind!),according to them.
Leaders('revolutionary' or otherwise)who cannot see beyond the tangible--how we have come to this pass.It breaks my heart.
To my mind,the mess we are in solidly points to a crucial implantation from outside.This implantation is not unique to Manipuri society.Nazism from Gangetic plains have been radiating to all sides by first making such implantations to all the societies surrounding them.
Implantation?It's in the form of a societal playing field,which,in particular,in NE,is oiled by freebies from New Delhi.This playing field,in the main,is characterized by the supremacy of the doctrine of 'relative truths'.For
example,it's a universally accepted truth--"Don't look at the wife of the neighbour".But in the implanted playing field,they would say--"It's good and acceptable but if your neighbour is a Dalit,it is quite ok to eye his wife".This points to multiple truths,which,in effect,implies the existence of multiple realities.Coaxing the whole players of the implanted playing field to come to terms with the existence of multiple realities tantamounts to making them to start quarelling with the reality surrounding them.So,here,we have the whole players of the implanted playing field,in our case,the whole population of Manipuri society,in constant quarrel with the reality surrounding them--in short,they are in the delirium of an overwhelming delusion.
Such deluded population demands the coming up of leaders who can see beyond the tangible aspects of the implanted playing field and show the path to break out of the great delusion.
But,sadly,most of the 'revolutionary'leaders of Manipur turn out to be very keen and very eager players themselves in the implanted playing field,which,I would like to emphasize,is nicely oiled by the freebies from New Delhi.This shows that the 'revolutionary' leaders,like the lay populace,are also in constant quarrel with the reality surrounding them.
To add woes to the already tormented Manipuri society,grey heads in New Delhi do have a fairly correct readings of the status of these deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution'.They are in an actively attack mode,cooking up games of tweaks and prods(my last post).Decision on Mountain Strike Force on 16th of July + Appointment of Nagaland Governor as Governor of Manipur on the 29th of July + the announcement of Telengana on the 30th of July is the latest game of tweaks and prods but in a massive scale.They are planning to keep it boiling for several months,possibly upto the announcement of next parliamentary elections.Thus keeping all the things boiling for several months they want to constantly torment the souls of the deluded 'revolutionary' leaders of Manipur with the jarring question--'If Telengana becomes a reality,can Nagalim be far behind?'As the deluded leaders can't see beyond the tangible of Nagalim and being constantly prodded by the immensity of upheavals brought up by this constant boil,their ongoing and constant quarrel with reality will intensify manifold.This might force these deluded leaders to withdraw further into their comfortable shell.As they begin wihtdrawing progressively from the troublesome reality,they are most likely to pronounce this--'Let's go slow on all programs and activities but instead focus on purifying ourselves so as to make us worthy for the challenge ahead'.If they come down to this level,we know that there is the emergence of cult leaders within the ranks of collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution'.In case the grey heads in New Delhi are able to prod the deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution' to finally make the above pronouncement,then they are within reach of extremely tantalizing goal of locking up the collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution' in permanent dysfunction.(If the majority of the seats in the collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution' get occupied by these newly-minted cult leaders,then,it's inescapable that the collective leadership would be dysfunctional).
I must admit that this move,in itself,is a very smart move from the grey heads of New Delhi.
Post-scrip: In itself this is a very smart move but did the grey heads in New Delhi pull down the level of the working of the Indian polity just a tad below the organically tolerable limit of the body polity?We are squarely staring at a scenario where they have just pulled down the working level of the Indian polity at par with that of the deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution'.That low? Without hurting the body polity? This is totally intriguing to me.I'll keep a close watch on the developments of the coming weeks and I'll like to write a post on this subject.
Coming to an example,it now turns out that they are genuinely incapable of seeing the intangible behind the issue of Nagalim.All that they are capable of is to grapple with the tangible like meeting up the people managing the campaign for Nagalim,talking with them and making friends with them.That's problem solving of political kind(not to mention of 'revolutionary' kind!),according to them.
Leaders('revolutionary' or otherwise)who cannot see beyond the tangible--how we have come to this pass.It breaks my heart.
To my mind,the mess we are in solidly points to a crucial implantation from outside.This implantation is not unique to Manipuri society.Nazism from Gangetic plains have been radiating to all sides by first making such implantations to all the societies surrounding them.
Implantation?It's in the form of a societal playing field,which,in particular,in NE,is oiled by freebies from New Delhi.This playing field,in the main,is characterized by the supremacy of the doctrine of 'relative truths'.For
example,it's a universally accepted truth--"Don't look at the wife of the neighbour".But in the implanted playing field,they would say--"It's good and acceptable but if your neighbour is a Dalit,it is quite ok to eye his wife".This points to multiple truths,which,in effect,implies the existence of multiple realities.Coaxing the whole players of the implanted playing field to come to terms with the existence of multiple realities tantamounts to making them to start quarelling with the reality surrounding them.So,here,we have the whole players of the implanted playing field,in our case,the whole population of Manipuri society,in constant quarrel with the reality surrounding them--in short,they are in the delirium of an overwhelming delusion.
Such deluded population demands the coming up of leaders who can see beyond the tangible aspects of the implanted playing field and show the path to break out of the great delusion.
But,sadly,most of the 'revolutionary'leaders of Manipur turn out to be very keen and very eager players themselves in the implanted playing field,which,I would like to emphasize,is nicely oiled by the freebies from New Delhi.This shows that the 'revolutionary' leaders,like the lay populace,are also in constant quarrel with the reality surrounding them.
To add woes to the already tormented Manipuri society,grey heads in New Delhi do have a fairly correct readings of the status of these deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution'.They are in an actively attack mode,cooking up games of tweaks and prods(my last post).Decision on Mountain Strike Force on 16th of July + Appointment of Nagaland Governor as Governor of Manipur on the 29th of July + the announcement of Telengana on the 30th of July is the latest game of tweaks and prods but in a massive scale.They are planning to keep it boiling for several months,possibly upto the announcement of next parliamentary elections.Thus keeping all the things boiling for several months they want to constantly torment the souls of the deluded 'revolutionary' leaders of Manipur with the jarring question--'If Telengana becomes a reality,can Nagalim be far behind?'As the deluded leaders can't see beyond the tangible of Nagalim and being constantly prodded by the immensity of upheavals brought up by this constant boil,their ongoing and constant quarrel with reality will intensify manifold.This might force these deluded leaders to withdraw further into their comfortable shell.As they begin wihtdrawing progressively from the troublesome reality,they are most likely to pronounce this--'Let's go slow on all programs and activities but instead focus on purifying ourselves so as to make us worthy for the challenge ahead'.If they come down to this level,we know that there is the emergence of cult leaders within the ranks of collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution'.In case the grey heads in New Delhi are able to prod the deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution' to finally make the above pronouncement,then they are within reach of extremely tantalizing goal of locking up the collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution' in permanent dysfunction.(If the majority of the seats in the collective leadership of Manipur's 'revolution' get occupied by these newly-minted cult leaders,then,it's inescapable that the collective leadership would be dysfunctional).
I must admit that this move,in itself,is a very smart move from the grey heads of New Delhi.
Post-scrip: In itself this is a very smart move but did the grey heads in New Delhi pull down the level of the working of the Indian polity just a tad below the organically tolerable limit of the body polity?We are squarely staring at a scenario where they have just pulled down the working level of the Indian polity at par with that of the deluded leaders of Manipur's 'revolution'.That low? Without hurting the body polity? This is totally intriguing to me.I'll keep a close watch on the developments of the coming weeks and I'll like to write a post on this subject.
