State Dictates People To Be Violent Poem by Pranab K Chakraborty

State Dictates People To Be Violent



Pranab k c
21/08/2014

as an India born baby
I have grown up in my country
from my primary school days
we have learnt our Father of the Nation
Mahatma Gandhi
who taught us non-violent movement
to protest against authority in various sector
of state and society is the highest weapon
to establish lawful demand of citizens

after getting freedom from British rule
Gandhiji's followers now and then
formed the Indian government
and yet non-violence is the strategy
India always maintain also in foreign relations

but when to protest against
armed forces special power act
by which army could give instant any type of punishment
if they suspect any one even to death also
by the name of keeping peace in the region
implemented for long years by the Indian government
in North-east India

an woman alone as an activist of humanity
began her protest by Gandhian way of fasting
even water she refuses to take
it's more than a decade she has been continuing
but state finds here the crime of committing suicide
and keeping her deliberately in home-prison
trying to break her fast by force but they defeat

IROM SHARMILA CHANU
the woman has been symbolized last species
follower of Gandhian doctrine perhaps
being condemned by that state called INDIA
where Gandhiji is yet called
the father of nation

catastrophe is crude to predict
but scholar can't resist themselves to comment
violating non-violence form of pretest
the state dictates the people
to be violent!

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The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) , is an Act of the Parliament of India which was passed on September 11,1958.[1] It is a law with just six sections granting special powers to the armed forces in what the act terms as 'disturbed areas'. Although the usefulness of the act has been universally acknowledged in particular for stabilizing the Kashmir valley and maintaining peace[citation needed], the Act has received criticism from several sections for alleged concerns about human rights violations in the regions of its enforcement, where arbitrary killings, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and enforced disappearances have alleged to have happened.
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