JOURNEY TO THE DEAD-END

FUN FREESTYLE

(that day as I remember…a bit sketchy but colorful memory 🙂)

                          Pride inside,,just enjoying the inflow ride..

Meeting a buddy,,refusing the street tea..

Remembering the asshole,,who jumped on my goal..

Breaking the mirror,,frrling a lot queerer..

Thirsty for some more,,not waiting for an encore..

Out of the moolah-bills,,what a fucking buzz-kill..

Hitting the pillow,,jumping over the puke zone..

Into a new zen-zone,,all the fucking pain gone..

Killing all ze zombies,,with dangling fucking bodies..

Getting killed and eaten,,still no pain not beaten..

Thrown off the edge,,falling off the bed..

Waking up off the nightmare,,watching everyone stare..

Throat so fucking dry,,don’t want to die,,waiting for the sky..

To open into a shower,,praying for H2O and not power..

Then  a homie appears,,with H2O in his gears..

Thanks my homie dish,,what is it that you wish..

With passion of monty-swan,,he tells a plan..

Hangover will de-scend,,when we go to the dead-end..

Sounds like a plan,,lets get on the thinking van..

Only solution to hangover,,to go higher and hang-over..

At home cook some lies,,on the way pick up supplies..

On to the end we go,,with coolness not even matched by snow..

Off the main roads,,away from broads and their thoughts..

Taking the hikes,,on foot and on non-mountain bikes..

Soaking up the view,,you got to do the dew..

Climb to the far end,,does really send..

Chills running through the spine,,from toe to the mind..

Found a tree for shade,,and a natural table unpaid..

Outcome the supplies,,that this this that and ice..

Thought level is elevated,,convo goes to topics un-stated..

The phones start ringing,,everyone starts singing..

Along with the ringtone,,shutup everyone,its says home..

Everything is fine and best,,just studying for the big test..

Laughing uncontrolled,,heart and mind streamrolled,,

Want the time to hold,,in this mystical realmo-fold..

Where throwing a stone,,to hear it gone..

Gives the ultimate pressure,,that seems nowdays a treasure..

A lot of time passes..sobering up waking on our arses..

Somehow up on the home terrace,,waiting for some clear-ance..

Another of buddy is here,,with water and soda in his gear..

Again with passion of a swan,,there he is with a plan..

Week ends on the weekend,,but not fun for the weak-ened..

Concentration Camp in Liberal Democratic India

When I talk about concentration camp in India I am not talking about a YOGA camp or a Buddhist meditation camp where the world come to gain NIRVANA but the concentration camps which are usually associated with Nazism, Fascism and Communism and we don’t imagine them to be present in liberal democracies as they represent a fascist, outdated and inhumane doctrine of keeping in fences a section of fellow human beings just because they are different or think differently.

You certainly don’t expect to find them in countries that fought imperialist and colonial powers for hundreds of years to get freedom to decide their own future for the welfare of the citizens of the state. So it took me by surprise when I picked up a national weekly magazine and found an article about a concentration camp located and operated in INDIA.

It was a special edition of Outlook dedicated to 50 years of the war of 1962 between China and India. Along with all often repeated articles and editorials I found this piece which was almost like fiction from a pro-government Chinese citizen, which is quite difficult to find I guessed. So it intrigued me and I learnt that this concentration camp was situated in Deoli, Rajasthan.

Deoli is a city and a municipality in Tonk district, 85 km away from Kota in the state of Rajasthan, India. The camp was a prison before independence for freedom fighters and also used as detention centre for keeping prisoners of war from WW-II. When the Chinese aggression started many Chinese origin people were rounded up from the north-east and eastern states and were transported through a goods train on a week long journey to the concentration camp in deoli.

Most of these people of Chinese ethnicity were Indian citizens and they were imprisoned because they might cause internal disturbances or might side with the Chinese if they reach in the internal areas. The war of 1962 lasted only a month in October that year but the camp ran from 1962 to 1968. Six years of staying inside fences and with soldiers pointing their guns at them. Mostly unhygienic conditions and a harsh climate for people from north-east with very little privacy or other facilities.

India’s second PM Lal Bahadur Shastri was home minister in 1963 and he declared that no internee would be tried for spying or treason. His promise was kept no one was convicted but no one was freed either. Some were asked to return to China and rest were freed after Six years to go back to a life that no longer existed.

The biggest flag-bearer of democracy in the world, America also ram concentration camps after the pearl harbor attack by the Japanese. Nearly 120000 people of Japanese origin were interned in concentration camps for the fear of espionage under executive order by President Roosevelt. But the parallel goes no further because surviving internees in the US eventually received a fat redressal cheque and a letter of apology from the president. No apologies or admittance of guilt from the Indian government though.

The world’s largest democracy needs to learn lessons from the events like this otherwise the scars of Deoli, Delhi-1984, Gujarat-2002 and several other state sponsored hardships will haunt us forever.

Outlook Article – http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282589