Apparently No Way-out!

Central govt is making all-out efforts to combat and contain Maoist menace. According to Prime minister Monmohan Singh Maoists are the greatest internal threat to the nation. Maoist infested states are awarded all-out help to fight Maoism. Maoists don’t believe in ballots, they believe in bullets to capture state power. Their aim is to free the poor and the downtrodden from the shackle of exploitation by the bourgeois system and ameliorate the subhuman condition they are now living in. No doubt they are guided by a noble purpose and all sensible men must stand by them in this respect. Only where people differ from them is their means of achieving this end. No well meaning people want violence, they opt for peaceful means. But in reality the plight of the poor is going from bad to worse in our ‘peaceful system’, the gap between the rich and the poor is increasingly widening. Again, in Maoists’ battle to achieve equality and prosperity of the poor, it’s the poor who are falling prey to the bullets. Senseless violence and killing hold sway. Can it ever serve the purpose of reaching the noble goal of the Maoists to improve the lot of the downtrodden? Perhaps not. Then what is the way out? How can we at least minimize the burgeoning social disparity and do good to the poor? We’re in fact confused and apparently find no escape route. So we sometimes happen to ventilate our soft corner for the Maoists more from our pent-up rage against social inequality than from rationality. Such feelings are accentuated when a man like Binayak Sen has to suffer behind the bar for his noble attempt to stand by the suffering humanity.