India at 72

Vidya Bhushan Rawat

1. Caste system not only intact but strengthened.
2. People facing untouchability still a reality.
3. Manual scavenging still prevalent despite tall claims of swachh bharat
4. People dying of hunger
5. Children and girls still being trafficked.
6. Violence against women one of the dirtiest realities of our society
7. Honor killings are nothing but preservation of caste supremacy and to terrorise the lower castes
8. Superstition being promoted by the power elite to keep people subjugated and maintain their monopoly over us.
   9.A country where constitution is still second choice, first primarily is strengthening the caste pride.
9. Keezhavenmani massacre. Tamilnadu,1968
10. Shankar Bigha, Bihar.
11. Lakshmanpurbathe
12. Kumher, Rajasthan,
13. Tsunduru, Andhra
14. Karmchedu, Andhra,
15. Belchi,
16. Bathani Tola
17. Muradabad riots
18. Meerut 1989
19. Nellie, in Assam
20. Assault on Harmandir Saheb, June 1984
21. Delhi 1984
22. Babari masjid demolition
23. Mumbai 1993
24. Anti mandal agitation of 1990
25. The Kandhamal
26. Burning of Graham Stains and his children
27. Godhara massacre
28. Gujarat 2002
29. Massacre at Marchijhaapi in Bengal under the left regime unreported
30. Nandigram and Singur: Bengal’s elite brahmanical castes shift their loyalty from left to Trinamul of Mamta.
31. Loot of adivasi resources at various places
32. Violent world of Pocso and Vedanta
33. Tappal in Uttar Pradesh and Raigarh in Maharastra
34. Kudunkulan and aftermath
35. Terror in Chhattishgarh and loss of adivasi identity
36. Unlearning from massive Tsunami disaster
37. Man made devastation continued in Uttarakhand
38. Terror attack in Mumbai 2008
39. Attack on Indian Parliament 2001
40. Declaration of Emergency 1975
41. Murder of Gandhi by Nathu Ram Godse in 1948
42. Assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984
43. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991
44. Assassination of Harchand Singh Longowal
45. Assam Peace Accord
46. Mizo Peace Accord
47. Indian misadvanture in Srilanka through IPKF
48. Rajiv Gandhi’s attempt to muzzle press through defamation bill
    51.Boforse became voice of nation destroying Rajiv’s credibility
49. The Shahbano Judgement
50. Mujjaffarnagar violence against Muslims
51. The Anna nautanki kept the country to virtual ransom.
52. Nirbhaya opportunity for the Sangh Parivar
53. Congress continuous ideological crisis place India under Modi
54. Mob lynching encouraged and unabated. It become a new norm
55. Indian media now the biggest threat to democracy. It does not report but it cook up stories and is the biggest mob lyncher today.
56. Indian media now champion fake news, hide facts and use its vast illiterate troll army to bully the opponents.
57. The murder of Rohith Vemula
58. Murder of Dr Payal Tadvi
59. Murder of Akhlaq
60. Muder of Pehlu Khan
61. Rape and murder of Bakarwal girl in Kathua and how the Hindu rights opposed justice to her.
62. The brave girl of Unnao and our hypocrisy.
63. The Violence against Dalits in Saharanpur
64. The shameless thugs of Una
65. The brave Kaushalya from Tamilnadu who lost her husband as he belonged to Dalit community yet fought against her parents
66. The brave girl Amrutha virshini who lost her husband Pranay killed by her parents.
67. The betrayal of Kashmir
68. The communalisation of citizenship
69. The unseen horrors of NRC
70. Looking for Justice Krishna Iyer, Justice V M Tarkunde, Justice H R Khanna, Justice Rajinder Sachhar in these times who could stand up for people’s right to defend.

These were something that came in my mind. We dont have veterans in media who could warn the government or in the bar the lawyers who could file public interest litigation for civil liberties. Interestingly, with more and more fake news as being circulated by the corrupt and spineless in the media, we are just returning to emergency era when each word uttered by BBC became the gospel truth. The biggest help to all international media and channels is actually provided by our ultra nationalist channels who are criminally hiding facts and just paddling fakenews. Indian people were never under the threat so much as today, from these criminals masquerading as journalists. Nobody want to do any follow up on the issues I mentioned as today’s chest thumping media anchors are the new babas on the horizon who only need ‘bhakts’ and not awakened people. Watching all this shit would further take us into the dark ages so if we really want to enjoy our azadi enjoy meeting like minded people, make physical contacts, read good books, explore alternative media and read-watch credible international media organisations.