WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A postmodern speak!
One day, the boss called me in his chamber to discuss the future plans for eradicating poverty, discrimination, unemployement and exploitation. He spoke at length about What Is To Be Done...words in bracket are writer's comments.
"You see, Abhishek, the basic problem in our country is the marginalised people.(Gareebi Hatao se Gareeb Hatao Tak). How can you imagine that many of our people don't get their food, their daily bread. We are insurance holders and why should we cosmopolitan chaps think about them. Because we are getting funds to think about them. You know, World Bank has withheld billions of dollars for the health sector in India. I said to David Page that you just give me a few 10,000 or so dollars. It will suffice, but beta, before that we will have to device the plans so that we get funds and utilise in the projects.
You see, our work is not very easy. In the whole of Adivasi belt starting from Orissa to Chattisgarh and West Bengal to Jharkhand, violent people's movement is going on. I have devised a name for our project Violence and Development. I think this is a nice balancing act in the sense that if we use only violence, state will put us in jail which is a political sort of thing. Basically, we are apolitical. (As if anything is apolitical on this earth...) If we shout on behalf of the state, then our People's Voices type of image will be in danger. So we must try that we create a balance between the two and think of what is to be done in the area of development.
You see, Abhishek, yesterday I was talking to a Member of Parliament who was the first student leader of Meerut University. He told me two amazing things which I think will be of great use to us with respect to story generation. He told me that first, at the accident site no student went armed. Usually students of Meerut University keep arms with them.(As if he had checked each and every pocket) Secondly, no one was drunk. Excellent! (As if you had put your nose into each mouth) So the crux is that, every youth is having his back to violence in this country. They are gradually turning non-violent which is a good sign. We want this only and for this, we want funds.
You see, my boy, You must have a developmental eye (for funds) in each area. Don't let your human spirits get blunted. Mere facts and figures will not suffice. You must go down and watch that how a common man goes to daily haat and buys vegetables in the minimal amount he earns. (This person takes lunch in IIC Annexe Dining Hall) It's so horrible.You must keep an eye on the lower middle class of this country.(I said I too belong to that class only) So, what do you think that I am speaking bookish language? (He never gets angry)
You see, Abhishek, we all have risen from that class only. (That's why you don't know Hindi). We feel the problems of the masses. I had a meeting with the minister yesterday and he has promised for funds so that we can start an ICT project in the Lunkaransar village of Rajasthan. We are planning to equip the villagers with a laptop so that they can have the information regarding their propriets at any time they want. (Sir, there is no electricity in that village). For that, we have made alliances with local NGO's and we are mobilising people that they don't take a violent path as we are experiencing in the red corridor. We want development and for that you will have to work hard, my dear. (That's why it is written on your coffee mug 'A worst day of golf is better than the best day of work!)"
If this is what is going to be done in this empire without clothes, better leave us to play golf...sorry...gully-danda and remain docile beasts only.
"You see, Abhishek, the basic problem in our country is the marginalised people.(Gareebi Hatao se Gareeb Hatao Tak). How can you imagine that many of our people don't get their food, their daily bread. We are insurance holders and why should we cosmopolitan chaps think about them. Because we are getting funds to think about them. You know, World Bank has withheld billions of dollars for the health sector in India. I said to David Page that you just give me a few 10,000 or so dollars. It will suffice, but beta, before that we will have to device the plans so that we get funds and utilise in the projects.
You see, our work is not very easy. In the whole of Adivasi belt starting from Orissa to Chattisgarh and West Bengal to Jharkhand, violent people's movement is going on. I have devised a name for our project Violence and Development. I think this is a nice balancing act in the sense that if we use only violence, state will put us in jail which is a political sort of thing. Basically, we are apolitical. (As if anything is apolitical on this earth...) If we shout on behalf of the state, then our People's Voices type of image will be in danger. So we must try that we create a balance between the two and think of what is to be done in the area of development.
You see, Abhishek, yesterday I was talking to a Member of Parliament who was the first student leader of Meerut University. He told me two amazing things which I think will be of great use to us with respect to story generation. He told me that first, at the accident site no student went armed. Usually students of Meerut University keep arms with them.(As if he had checked each and every pocket) Secondly, no one was drunk. Excellent! (As if you had put your nose into each mouth) So the crux is that, every youth is having his back to violence in this country. They are gradually turning non-violent which is a good sign. We want this only and for this, we want funds.
You see, my boy, You must have a developmental eye (for funds) in each area. Don't let your human spirits get blunted. Mere facts and figures will not suffice. You must go down and watch that how a common man goes to daily haat and buys vegetables in the minimal amount he earns. (This person takes lunch in IIC Annexe Dining Hall) It's so horrible.You must keep an eye on the lower middle class of this country.(I said I too belong to that class only) So, what do you think that I am speaking bookish language? (He never gets angry)
You see, Abhishek, we all have risen from that class only. (That's why you don't know Hindi). We feel the problems of the masses. I had a meeting with the minister yesterday and he has promised for funds so that we can start an ICT project in the Lunkaransar village of Rajasthan. We are planning to equip the villagers with a laptop so that they can have the information regarding their propriets at any time they want. (Sir, there is no electricity in that village). For that, we have made alliances with local NGO's and we are mobilising people that they don't take a violent path as we are experiencing in the red corridor. We want development and for that you will have to work hard, my dear. (That's why it is written on your coffee mug 'A worst day of golf is better than the best day of work!)"
If this is what is going to be done in this empire without clothes, better leave us to play golf...sorry...gully-danda and remain docile beasts only.
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