Team Hazare

author:satyasarada kandula Current Affairs : The gun-less classes. In our country, the state has armed forces, police, guns and jails. The mafia has guns. The terrorists of various affiliations and ideologies have guns. The rowdies in addition have hand made bombs, cycle chains, muscles, sticks, aggressive at****udes and broken bottles. These are the present days kshAtrAs or kshatriyas, literally the ones with weapons. All of these groups are organised.
The Indian Public is unarmed. Weaponless. Of these some poorer classes can at least engage in fist fights and verbal duels. Some richer classes can control some armed groups with their money. At least they can hire mercenaries with guns, security guards at the least and control the state machinery itself in some cases.
Not so the middle classes. You can say “boo!” and the middle classes run for cover. We are “bhagwan se, kanoon se, banduk se dartha” aam aadmis. (Ordinary people who fear God, Law and Guns).
We sacrifice our childhood and youth to gain “educational qualifications” and learn to live in “school jails” and to “follow rules”. After a brief ”****n in college education” phase, which finishes our parents off financially, we yoke up to serve various commercial ins****utions till we burn out or retire. We teach, we cure, we build, we cook, we clean.
We are the dasas, the servants. We are the s’UdrAs of these times.
When we are unhappy with something to the point that we would like to do something, we light candles, fast, walk, talk and write. In our times, the state machinery can tear gas you and beat you up and arrest you for this. We take pride in our peace****l agitations, but as a matter of fact thats all we can do.. we can do nothing more. We are not even organised.
Before liberalization, and we had foreign employers to be dasas to, all we had were “government or public sector” jobs.
The most fear****l fled to foreign countries in a phenomenon called “brain drain”, for good work and decent living conditions. If you kept your head down and worked hard, your children could have a better ****ture as citizens of a free country. We were blamed as the intelligentsia that failed the country, and the young ones were not allowed to ask what the country did for them, only what they could do for the country.

Team Hazare attacks government as Anna fasts