Dilip Mandal - जो इस पागलपन में शामिल नहीं है, वह मारा जाएगा

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जो इस पागलपन में शामिल नहीं है, वह मारा जाएगा

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इस तस्वीर को ग़ौर से देखिए। बताया गया है कि यह छत्तरपुर की उस महिला की तस्वीर है, जिसे निर्वस्त्र कर पेशाब पिलाने की खबर छपी थी। घटना के बाद अफसर लोग पूछताछ कर रहे हैं। होने को तो यह देश में कहीं की भी तस्वीर हो सकती है।
इस तस्वीर में पुरुष अधिकारियों की जगह खुद को रखकर सोचिए। क्या आपको ऐसा महसूस हो रहा है कि आप बीमार हैं? गंभीर रूप के बीमार? नहीं न? इन अफसरों को तो लगा भी नहीं होगा कि वे इस महिला को कुर्सी न देकर कोई गलती कर रहे हैं।
इस तस्वीर को देखकर कुछ लोग कह रहे हैं- शर्मनाक। कुछ ने पुलिस को गालियाँ दीं, तो कुछ ने अफसरों को। कुछ कह रहे हैं कि यह हमारी संस्कृति नहीं है। सब "उनको" कोस रहे हैं। सब दूसरी ओर देखना चाहते हैं।
सॉरी बॉस।
यह तस्वीर 'उनके' बारे में नहीं है। यह 'हम सबके' बारे में है। यह तथाकथित मॉडर्न भारत के बारे में है, जिसमें ऐसी घटनाओं को लेकर सहज स्वीकार्यता है। यह हमारी राष्ट्रीय संस्कृति का हिस्सा है। यही हमारी संस्कृति है। यही राष्ट्रीय संस्कार है।
एक महिला, जिसे निर्वस्त्र कर पेशाब पिलाया जाता है, उसके साथ हमारे देश का यही सामान्य व्यवहार है। हर दिन हमारे आस पास हो रही ऐसी घटनाओं पर नाराज होना या चौंकना हमने बंद कर दिया है। हम पहले भी ख़फ़ा नहीं थे, हम अब भी खफा नहीं हैं।
भारत मूल रूप से एक बीमार देश है। मनोरोगीयों का देश।
मनोरोगी होना इस देश में नॉर्मल होना है। इस देश में ज्यादातर लोगों को पता ही नहीं है कि वे कितने गंभीर रूप से बीमार हैं।
भारत में अगर आप मनोरोगी नहीं हैं तो यह देश आपको नॉर्मल मानने से इनकार कर देगा।
अगर आप मनोरोगी नहीं हैं तो यह देश आपको पागलखाने में भर्ती कर देगा।
हमने ऐसा ही देश बनाया है।
जो इस पागलपन में शामिल नहीं है, वह मारा जाएगा, या पागल क़रार दिया जाएगा। अभी हाल में हमारे तीन बुजुर्ग मारे गए हैं, क्योंकि वे इस पागलपन में शामिल नहीं थे।
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NB - Professor Kalburgi was not a rationalist, but a devout Lingayat
Chandan Gowda: The importance of Professor Kalburgi
see also
After Professor Kalburgi Murder, Exhibit A is Police Inertia
Govind Pansare consigned to flames ...
Days after being shot at, Pansare dies ...
Memorial to A Warrior for Socialism: Comrade Govind Pansare
Kolhapur: Senior CPI leader Govind Pansare, wife shot at by
Smruti Koppikar - Maharashtra CM has no will to pursue my father’s murder
Petition in Supreme Court Accuses NIA of Soft-Pedaling Hindutva Terror Cases
From a newspaper vendor to a leader
Two Protests - On 2nd Anniversary of Dr Dabholkar murder
KUMAR KETKAR - Narendra Dabholkar: The Relentless Rationalist
Mahmud Rahman - Bangladesh: Unbelief in an age of death squads
Anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in ...
"Remember Gandhi. Remember what we did to him
Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti
Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism in India
Rationalist under threat of arrest for exposing the “miracle”
India's god laws fail the test of reason
India's new theocracy
Voice of rationality silenced by two bullets, shot point-blank
The BJP is afraid of saffron terror probes because they point to the RSS
Purushottam Agrawal: Why does the RSS hate the idea of India ?
RSS Declared Unlawful: Text of GOI communique February 4, 1948
Sanjiv Chaturvedi: zero tolerance for honesty in the Narendra Modi government
R K Misra on corruption and the Modi government. Forked Tongue & Flexible Factsheet
RAKESH DIXIT - M.P. Government Turns on Vyapam Whistleblower Anand Rai
Billionaire at Heart of Vyapam Scam Funded BJP, RSS Leaders: Tax Report
Barkha Dutt - How Namrata Damor's murder was cloaked as suicide
Vyapam troubles loom for RSS: probe threatens to drag in Sangh Parivar elders
Patriotic hooligans on the rampage ...
Borking Gopal Subramanium
The Broken Middle - my essay on the 30th anniversary of 1984
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
The Abolition of truth - For the Hindi version of this essay click here: सत्य की हत्या
RSS tradition of manufacturing facts to suit their ideology
Communist Party of India's Homage to Gandhiji October 2, 1947 // Communist Party's Appeal to the People of Pakistan August 15, 1947
V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi’s murder
Madhu Limaye's (senior socialist leader) observations on the RSS (1979)
A Hard Rain Falling (on private armies and political violence in India) (EPW, July 2012)
THE DELHI DECLARATION OF JANUARY 18, 1948
"Leftists never condemn Islamist terror"

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