Unnamed India-specific terrorism.

I was looking for the strength of London's FTSE.

I'm telling the story of the 22nd March 2016.As the National Stock Exchange's NIFTY opened at 9.15 am,I tried to do my own calculation of what curve it might take in the day's course.My calculation was like this:NIFTY would take slowly rising curve at the closing hours provided London's FTSE opened strong.

I planned to catch the action by 1.45 pm IST.But I was a little late--it was nearly 2 pm when I saw the FTSE chart.I was disappointed--FTSE took a sharply declining line as it opened for the day.If FTSE opened strong,I planned to buy  NUFTY ETF.Thus disappointed,I turned my attention towards other news of the day.Exactly at that point of time I came to read about Brussels.

I was reading tweets as they were coming in by the seconds.I was struck by the repeated reference to the number 13.Despite all the chaos,they kept repeating that 'at least 13 dead' for several hours.I don't want to repeat myself about this particular number.If anybody has had some time to read up my last few posts,they would surely understand my point.

I hate terror acts.If my blog have any impact,I would wholeheartedly direct it towards the total condemnation of terror acts.

But mere condemnation is not enough.We must try to think out of box to confront terrorism.

We must start at our home ground,not that we should not condemn the terrorist attack on Brussels.Not only should we condemn it,but also utilize it as a trigger to take a fresh look towards our home ground. That the attack on Brussels happened on 22nd March,which is one day ahead of the 37th republic day of the NSCN(IM),serves us well in utilizing it as our trigger.

It's a common knowledge in Manipur that NSCN(IM) has been given a free hand for collecting taxes,dictating orders,using brute force like burning down trucks,kidnapping and killings of truckers along the National Highways of Manipur,especially,the Imphal-Dimapur route.Manipur State police force is helpless--they cannot act against these crimes.All the people in Manipur know that the only forces that can act against such crimes are India's military or para-military.Such forces are already deployed in huge numbers all along the highways.

Even the Chief Minister of Manipur made it a special agenda to plead the Federal govt in New Delhi to direct the military or the para-military forces,which are already deployed along the highways,to act against such crimes of the NCN(IM).But nothing is happening.There is still no rule of law along the highways of Manipur.More than this,all the people of Manipur know that the military and para-military forces are covertly supporting the NSCN(IM) militants in terrorizing the truckers and passengers along the National Highways.

We know that such terror acts of NSCN(IM) militants are not as spectacular as that Brussels'.This might be part reason why Western media have no time and resource to report the terrorist acts along the highways of Manipur.As the media fail to report them,the whole world is ignorant of the continuing terror acts.Thus unknown to the outside world,the militants of the NCSN(IM) has been terrorizing the truckers and the passengers of Manipur along its highways for many decades now.

So,there is an unnamed India-specific terrorism.

This unnamed India-specific terrorism drives us to go hyper-local.

A filmmaker was methodically called out his house,blindfolded and bundled inside a car.They,again methodically,brought him to a secluded place and beat him so badly that he had to be hospitalized in a serious condition.

He is not a simple filmmaker but a kind of symbol of Manipuri film.Attacking him is tantamount to attacking Manipuri cinema and terrorizing filmmakers,film writers,film artiste and film technicians.

That the attackers were so methodical points to the possibility of an organized group behind the crime.If the filmmaker did something wrong that warrants application of mob justice,why don't the organized group publicize it?Even the evil Islamic State militants made it a point to own up the horrifying carnage at Brussels.This points to the fact that there are organized groups in Manipur more evil than the Islamic State militants.

Though not spectacular(like that of Brussels),the ongoing terrorizing acts along the Natioanl Highways and inside the tiny valley are the manifestations of the unnamed India-specific terrorism.

Another 13

Unknown to us lay newspaper readers,Manipuri film industry seem to be facing life or death situation.Today's newspapers announced the formation of a consultation committee on Manipuri film,involving heavyweight CSOs.Mere mentioning of the CSOs hints at the immensity of the problem facing Manipuri cinema.I used to have friends in the industry but I have already drifted away from them.I'm depending on the newspaper reports in trying to grasp the situation.

With such a scant source of information,I'm totally confused.Is there a monetary demand from some rebel groups?Does the physical assault on an important functionary of the film body relate with such monetary demand?

I have no idea.But I know for certain that halls screening Manipuri films have shut down for some time.There are also not new DVD releases.So,it seems Manipuri film is at a standstill.

We come to know the formation of the consultation committee on the 13th of March.

Another important news report that appears on the 13th of March 16 is the spotting of the soldiers of the People's Liberation army of China in the forward post along the line of control(LoC) on the Pakistani side of Kashmir.

Am I trying to link the two reports? Is there any plausible ground for linking the two newsreports?

The answer is number 13.

The last few posts of this blog discussed the significance of the number 13 in the present context.

If one reads carefully all those posts,nobody will fault this blogger in assuming that this particular number is good enough reason to establish a link between the above two newsreports.

If we think there is a link,we would be breathlessly waiting for the 16th of March 16.On this day,the ultimatum issued by the newly formed consultative committee ends.

Propaganda lodged inside our subconscious.

Any observer(of Manipur) worth his salt would not fail to read several hints which say that MH 370 was(and still is) an attack weapon,not once seen in the entire annal of the history of human warfare.On the second anniversary of MH370, I remind myself that I had a post entitled 'Malaysia's hijack plane and India's  doctrine of relative truth'.I'm quoting a few lines from that post:
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'But to accuse a State of hijacking a passenger plane is in the realm of conspiracy theory.But as the still developing situation show,there might be more than one State involved in the hijacking.It is quite reasonable to infer that they would need only a brief jamming of Pakistani radars to get the plane to Turkmenistan(China  has a rebel group aiming to establish an East Turkemenistan).And,it's quite reasonable to think that the radar-jamming technologies might have found their devices installed,however briefly,in Afghanistan.

But still.why should we waste out valuable time in a conspiracy theory?

To answer this question,we have to go back to the 13th of March 2014.And,the place of our interest is Imphal.

They have the temerity to do something with natural disaster on a 13th day!More than that,the day before, the guys from New Delhi,in a press conference,held in place no other than the seat of power in Manpur,the Secretariat complex in Imphal,grandly announced that 2 lakhs people would be hurt and 37 thousand people would be killed!Some kind of mock drill indeed!!

Reading between the lines,it's quite clear that New Delhi,under the guise of a mock drill,was issuing threats to Manipuri society.They are effectively saying to the larger Manipuri society--

--'Beware,you will get hurt'--.

Psychological warfare,isn't it?Let's say it is one  in micro level.What about the macro level?Of course,the hijacking of the Malaysian jetliner.        
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So,MH370 is all about bringing the battle to the subconscious arena.Why I am saying this? We need to sit back and start looking at things in their right perspective.MH370 embodies all the imaginable questions but not a single answer.Was it a hijack?An attack weapon? What had happened to the wide-bodied jetliner? Did it soft land on the ocean surface and sank? Where had all the passengers gone?(Tiny bits of pieces supposed to be parts of the wreckage found near Union Island and other African coasts seemed to have planted to whet the appetite for raising more questions).

It's just like the case of God.So many imaginable questions but not a single answer. Is God real?He is formless?How can we find Him?So many questions right from the start of human civilization.But not a single answer is yet to come to the fore.

In other words,unknowable and unseen. That is,of metaphysical world,of sub-conscious domain.

So, the targetted foe had been hit by something that is unknowable and unseen.From here it is easy to surmise that the unknowable and unseen weapon had been deployed by some combatants,who should be,by logic,equally unknowable and unseen.Metaphorically,it's some kind of a Godly-weapon.With the precise objective of shifting the battlefield to the subconscious level.Some Godly-weapon attacking the subconscious mind!

But,still,I have this nasty feeling that I fail to find the right words in describing this 'Godly-weapon'.Let me try to illustrate it with a personal story of mine.

During my college days,I was a student activist.I was in the perfect landscape where I had the opportunity to meet people from every section of our society.I had close associates from working and lower middle class to carry on our activist programmes.I had also the not-so-smooth interaction with upper middle class and upper class people during the course of seeking monetary and material contribution for the activist programme.

Among such large number of people,one person stood out.He was an older man.Despite the age difference,I took him as a trusted friend.

He was the perfect example of what a flesh and blood manifestation of anti-West narrative should be.He even abhorred the sight and sound of the West.He tried to read a lot.He constantly made it a point to update himself with current affairs of his society.He mostly succeeded in keeping himself away from all form of intoxicants.He was an uncompromising stickler to the 'high moral code' to the conduct of every day way of life.He also kept himself away from female company and was unmarried.But what made him stand out was his constant endeavour to lead a life according to the value system as,he thought,enshrined in the Puyas.For his political thought,he read Marx,Lenin and Mao.For a teenager activist,he was a formidable beacon of light.

With the ending of my college days,the activist part of me also came to a close.I aslo slowly drifted away from this particular friend of mine.I started mingling with a new set of friends.

Years later,I accidentally had a brief encounter with a close relative of this friend of mine.For no particular reason,he took a keen interest in talking about my friend.I did not ask him anything but I had actually no option rather than listening to his banter.Surprisingly,his banter triggered a startling chain-reaction of making a post-mortem of that part of my life,particularly my friendship with him.It came to me as some of revelation that my friend was glorifying poverty.From that point,I began to ask further questions--if we take out his dabbling with Marxist literature,he was a perfect example of what a great Indian seer should be.My friend,who so loudly professed anti-West stance,actually lived a life of an Indian seer!That was an astounding discovery.

This point to one and possible scenario--the Indian propaganda had already seeped deep inside our subconscious.Without knowing it.we live a life guided by Indian thought and Indian code of conduct.For centuries together,India has been attacking our subconscious.

This story of mine reveal to us in no uncertain terms that India has been very adept in this warfare of attacking the subconscious.They have been carrying on with this warfare for centuries together.Looking from this perspective,MH370 is no surprise.On the contrary,MH370 exhibits all the patterns of this centuries-old warfare of India.

It turns out that MH370 is a technology-enhanced version of the attack on the subconscious.