September 28, 2013

FUTILITY OF AGITATION



Agitation is a collective protest against an incident, action, activity or existing state of affairs in a given region. Generally we observe a large scale of participants in agitations, demanding something or many things, from their target person, firm, people, an institution or a government. Agitation is a means of organized expression of our anguish against something we don’t like. They like to make it widely visible and audible and thus public in most of the cases. They partly crave for false publicity in these activities and exhibitions of anger and revolution. We cannot distinctly identify why each of them is participating in an agitation. Many may participate in it casually just for the public fun and celebration of it. So, we cannot consider every agitation as worthy and influential one.

Let us try to distinguish between right and wrong agitations exploring the nature and intensity of agitations, which we generally observe in India.

Freedom movement in India was a great agitation. Indians, as a collective force, struggled hard to send the selfish and oppressive British rulers out under the leadership of regional and national leaders. Mahatma Gandhi got the highest degree of reputation out of freedom movement. Some other leaders and patriots are also widely known to us through books and otherwise. What about millions of Indians that participated in this movement from across this holy land? Hundreds of Indians were imprisoned and tortured severely by the British rulers. History did not capture the details of all those patriots and idealists. It implies that in movements and agitations, only a few get recognition and reputation and the remaining ones disappear from records. It is the major drawback of freedom movement in India also. However, their collective goal and efforts were towards achieving independence. They felt and got united for a great cause, not for selfish and narrow-minded motives and views. Since all of them were ideal and visionary from this perspective, we can consider it as a right agitation.

Some other right kind of agitations are: those against gender inequality (feminist ideologies and movements across the world), of lesbians and gays for their rights; of the Africans against the oppression by the white in many countries; of girls and women protesting against the atrocities taking place in workplaces and in some particular incidents being influenced by the contemporary events; of labourers demanding considerable wages for them in the unorganized sector and millions of people against a bad local or corrupt national government. Every healthy individual strongly feels the need of freedom, equality and fraternity around him or her. We cannot bear somebody oppressing and exploiting us regularly. When we get deeply hurt and disappointed because of the evil practices around us, which are affecting our lives badly, we revolt against such incidents and state of affairs. We cannot imagine the evolution of man from a barbaric one to the present refined one without these movements and agitations in human history across the world. It is not just an agitation but revolution. If we can achieve a great change in our lives through a collective protest in any place or context, fighting for a few days, months or years, it can certainly be considered as a revolution. Revolution is part of evolution in any race or place.

Generally, the characteristics of this right kind of agitation may be some or all of the following:

1. Their struggle is for a major cause, which brings positive change and happiness in the lives of many.

2. They don’t wait for an invitation or motivation to participate in it but they strongly feel it and so get into it.

3. They plan and execute it in a systematic order because they want their agitation to be peaceful and sensible.

4. They may get into violence and indiscipline depending on the intensity of issues they are facing.

5. They don’t crave for false publicity but do not refuse if others want to showcase it somehow, somewhere.

6. They generally follow the instructions and roadmap provided by their single or many leaders across places.

7. They may withdraw from their movement at any time because of various justifiable or unjustifiable reasons.

8. They have high standards and values as individuals or as a collective force of thought and action.

Then, let us examine the concept of wrong agitations. For me, a wrong agitation is one, which is held by one person or many to achieve something ‘selfish’ and ‘narrow-minded’. Some examples for it are: frequent demonstrations by some employees of local, state and central governments for higher pay and perks; all demands and activities of trade and employee unions across India; different industrial clusters indulging in corrupt policies and practices and lobbying for their larger benefits at various levels of bureaucracy and governments; movements for unique identity to a particular region or state; movements for separation of a region or state from the larger whole; agitations to achieve special benefits or status for a particular community, religion, language group, race, ideology, gender or nation.

The characteristics of a wrong agitation may be some or all of the following:

1. They are always interested in the welfare and happiness of their set of creatures, not others.

2. For them; their money, their status, their comforts and their profits are only their issues of concern.

3. Others can easily identify their selfish and narrow-minded nature as members of a society or citizens of a nation.

4. They never think or work based on ideals like patriotism, nationality, humanity, universal fraternity.

5. Their demands are mostly illogical, irrational and immoral if we check them as idealists and thinkers.

6. We generally identify them as interest groups because their agitations are to satisfy their interests and egos.

7. None of them is ready to sacrifice anything for their movement; they do it when they are comfortable only.

8. They are least bothered about their nation, plight of fellow human beings or other conditions around them.

I like to elucidate this kind of wrong agitation with a perfect example, which I have been experiencing for long. It is ‘Separate Telangana Movement in Andhra Pradesh’.

First let us examine if those, who are fighting for a separate Telangana state, are really visionary and appreciable ones. I state ‘no’. If you get the right answers to the following questions, you can clearly understand this fact.

1. How many leaders and activists of Telangana Movement are really good at their personal, familial and societal level? What did they do for their family or society personally during the last few years investing their hard work, vision and patriotism? There must be honesty, idealism and suffering in whatever they did for others!

2. How many of them are ready to die for this cause publicly or leave their families, places and property forever?

3. How much time and energy are they spending publicly in the hot sun, heavy rain and biting winter winds? Aren’t they sitting in AC halls and their personal comfort zones most of the time in the name of discussions and discourses? Can we consider one leader if he or she spends most of his or her time in comfort zones only?

4. How many of them are not looking for any position in politics or otherwise if they achieve separate statehood? Do they remain as dreamers and visionaries of India, who always give powerful positions to the deserving ones, who do not belong to them at all? Are they fighting for ordinary Telangana people or for their political positions?

5. How many of these leaders are poor and honest ones as individuals? How many assets do they have in Telangana region and how did they earn and retain them over the years? Can one, who grew up financially and politically, exploiting and suppressing one’s fellow human beings for long, serve the same vulnerable and pitiable human beings just after becoming a leader to them after separate statehood?

6. How many of them really love the distinguished Telangana culture and tradition? Are they really following them in their personal and professional lives regularly? Did they read books on Telangana life and culture? Did they ever promote cultural activities related to Telangana region? How much money and efforts did they invest this way?

7. Are they struggling to retain the valuable assets of and benefit from the innocent and helpless people of Telangana region or planning practically on how to develop Telangana region? Imagine that there are no coal mines, water resources, various corporate firms and such other attractions in their region, which occurred naturally or through collective contributions of all people, can they love such poor and pitiable Telangana region also and have they intelligence, hard-working nature and patience to develop such region also working on it for about 20 years or so?

8. How many poor and helpless Telangana people participated in this movement considering their leaders as some idealists and visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabbhai Patel? How much illegal and immoral money did they spend over the last 10 years to artificially organize these movements? Does any sensible and ideal Telangana person commit suicide for this cause, leaving his family in pain and suffering? Do they want to highlight Telangana movement based on the deaths and suicides of such innocent people? Why did not any leader die in this movement for this cause? Are they really leaders? Are they really leading their people minding their welfare and happiness in the visualized new state? If yes, let them tell the same to the God and Goddess they like in their hearts. If no, believe that nobody is considering any one of them as a true leader. All Telangana people know their true nature!

Then, let me evaluate the characters, attitudes, lifestyles and culture of the leaders and activists of Coastal Andhra Pradesh, who have been strongly opposing the idea of separate statehood to Telangana for the last few weeks. I did not personally check the places, people and culture of Rayala Seema much till now. So, I don’t like to comment about them at all in this context. I am a native of Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts in particular. So, I can comment about the folks of my region better than about others.

I will introduce you four leaders of this movement to briefly let you know the real worth of these rogues:

Botsa Satya Narayana – Ask anybody in Vizianagaram district about his growth as a politician and the assets and influence he got after becoming a politician. It means he is just a politician and opportunist, not a leader at all!

Lagadapati Raja Gopal – I often think that a fifth standard student is better than him in many respects. He can at least read out a poem perfectly so that others can try to understand his capacity. He does not have the qualities of a politician also, the ability to tell bitter lies beautifully like his colleagues, in public places. A few months ago, he sat on some hunger strike in Vijayawada. After some set period of time, he ran away from there and appeared at NIMS hospital in Hyderabad. He could not sit calmly also for considerable period of time. He proved himself as a buffoon in that event running away from the cameras of media persons in that context. Since he has accumulated many assets as an industrialist, the people of Vijayawada must be bearing his presence. Think of him deleting all those assets from his life, how many people of Andhra Pradesh consider him as a leader! One with many assets and political power cannot be a leader but one who can educate and guide people without any weapons also!

Subba Rami Reddy – Though I don’t like his history (his growth as a financial entity through immoral ways), I like him for some reasons. He does not have a cruel and manipulative mind like many politicians in Andhra Pradesh. He speaks out what he is feeling really. He is like an innocent child from this perspective. He often showcases his deepest sense of love for Lord Shiva. Perhaps Lord Shiva is a poor God and so this rich man from Visakhapatnam regularly impresses Him with his posh and showy process of collective worship. Such a child, who does not know how to impress a kind God also, using his pure mind and humble submission of everything related to the ego of his ‘self’, cannot be a leader to the millions of people in any region of Andhra Pradesh because these human beings are more intelligent and visionary than Lord Shiva now!

K Chiranjeevi – God gave him two kind and generous brothers, such wealth and fame which he never imagined and everything an ordinary man dreams of in a nation like India. Many folks admired him until he entered politics, including me. He was a star when he wore colorful suits as a film actor because many directors struggled hard to present him as an extraordinary person. Unfortunately, entering politics, he allowed the people of Andhra Pradesh to actually understand his real character. Desire is right but greed is wrong. Chiranjeevi did not have only desire for money and fame but greed for more. He did not realize that we cannot be in limelight always on our own. Now I consider him as a cheat, shallow bloke and worthless living entity only because of what he did after entering politics. He publicly showed people that he always craves for ‘more money and fame as a politician’ but not the status of a ‘humble, simple and ideal film actor, who silently thinks and works for others in some way’. He may believe that he is still a star but no intelligent and sensible fellow considers him so. If 1000 people are clapping before us, we should not think that all of them are sensible ones and so appreciating us that warmly. Unfortunately all of them might be idiots and loafers also, who clap for anybody just like that. Chiranjeevi may have such admirers and fans even now. In a fool’s paradise, even a hell seems like a heaven. So, can we consider such selfish and shallow film actor to be the real leader of people? Chiranjeevi is not a leader, just an actor. He acts everywhere!

I took just these four names to let you understand the real worth of leaders of coastal Andhra Pradesh. I admire KCR of Telangana movement always because he may appear in public places periodically but he speaks very rough Telangana language when criticizing his rivals in any context. I see a real Telangana person in him during those moments. I like his speeches also. There is fire and anguish in his words. I can’t witness such truth in any idiot speaking in favor of United Andhra Pradesh, representing coastal Andhra region. They act everywhere. There is no the element of frankness and honesty in their public speeches also.

Let me explain the qualities and nuances of the folks of coastal Andhra Pradesh now, who imagine themselves as active crusaders and leaders of this movement. It fact, I should name it ‘public shows of brainless sheep’.

1. Most of these leaders have huge base of assets in Telangana region. They bought them in capital region and surrounding areas because they are hardcore businessmen. They invest their money there, where there can be huge profits immediately or in course of time. They are scared that KCR may slowly grab all these assets from them once a separate Telangana state comes into existence. Or, their monetary value may decrease tremendously in the new state. So, they don’t want Telangana to become a separate state. Therefore, they made it into a movement, making all of us believe that it is a movement of the people, by the people and for the people. The fact is nobody is participating in this movement voluntarily. Either your school or college tells you to come on to the roads, your employee union forces you to participate in it or something artificial and unnatural of that order. Whatever is going on in coastal Andhra Pradesh, for the last two months, is like a big circus show. Animals and birds show a lot of tricks either because of their sheer stupidity or cruel orders of their master. Can we consider the silly tricks of some creatures of this order as an agitation or movement?

2. Ashok Babu rose as a leader because there are hundreds of sheep behind him. A sheep generally likes to graze in its familiar region always, not new places. Ashok Babu and his union comrades are accustomed to Hyderabad region and so they can live there only. They cannot live anywhere because they are helpless and shameless parasites. What if KCR sends them out after a new state forms there! Ashok Babu cannot sleep in his comfortable chair like before in Andhra region because it is not going to be a bed of roses as in Hyderabad. If an employee or their union leader is making an agitation in India, simply understand that he is fighting for ‘his or their needs and future’ but not for the welfare of India or you and me. He or she is a 100% selfish and narrow-minded rogue. This is the status of all union based agitations going on in Andhra Pradesh now. No employee is a patriot or idealist here but purely self-centered criminals, sinners and businessmen, who does anything to achieve what he or she wants. Their public dances, fights and songs are merely circus shows! You can watch them on televisions.

3. Through blocking roads, closing colleges and schools, shutting down shops and public facilities, slogans, banners, strikes, can anybody achieve anything in a country like India? Check history. How many are shouting publicly in many parts of India almost every day protesting against something or the other or demanding something? In the Indian format of democracy, we can witness two kinds of sheep always in any part of India – they are the political parties with the status of opposition and ordinary people making agitations. Few care for them. Governments have no time and interest to take their issues or voice seriously because they are not working for people but for their benefits and interests. In this critical set of conditions, prevalent in India, what to Sonia Gandhi or Chidambaram if I close all my doors and windows of my house and beat myself thoroughly out of aversion for them. Sonia eats and sleeps well. Chidambaram has nothing to bother about it. If I beat myself, I suffer. If I die in the process, my people suffer, not Kiran Kumar Reddy or Chandra Babu Naidu or Jagan! What my coastal Andhra leaders and activists have been doing for all these days in our region, after the proclamation of separate statehood to Telangana region by the central government is, exactly this insane and cruel set of things – torturing their people and helpless employees in as many ways as possible. It’s like beating your wife and children out of your anger for a girl living in an abode opposite yours. Ashok Babu, who shouted in Hyderabad recently, with thousands of brainless Andhra sheep, did exactly this mad act. He is one of the stupid and crazy rogues of Andhra Pradesh. He is a public criminal, torturing people like this. Who authorized him to arrest free flow of public life for days together?

4. The best statement of KCR of Telangana movement, which I often hear from his speeches, is ‘When we don’t want to live with you Andhra people as a partner, why are you hanging with us shamelessly’. I give 100 marks for 100 for this statement of KCR. This is the gist of Telangana movement. When your wife is not interested to sleep with you, she shows 100 reasons to prove why you are an unfit husband to her, in any court of law. Even if you forcibly try to squeeze sensuous pleasure from her beautiful body only, she kills you and runs away one day. There are many girls and women in India. You can marry one of them after exhibiting your real worth to them somehow or you can move to brothels to satisfy your extreme basic instincts. The ultimate point is ‘focus on getting any woman, but not your wife because she is not at all interested in your company’. If you are struggling to sleep with her only, even after realizing this bitter truth, it means that you are a ‘shameless and helpless parasite’. What KCR does with Telangana after it comes into existence as a separate state is none of my business or any of the idiots and rogues, who are agitating for united Andhra Pradesh now. He ruins or develops it. Did he ask us for help or guidance? So, if we have self-respect as people of coastal Andhra Pradesh, we should allow the new state to come into existence. We can live anywhere happily if we have good manners and hard-working nature. Don’t you have these basic good qualities? Then, why are you hanging with Telangana region? Why are you unable to live on your own in any part of India? If you like Telangana people, live there with them happily. If you hate them, come back to your native place in coastal Andhra Pradesh. But, living in Telangana region, don’t talk or do anything against them because if you lived for 60 years happily in Telangana region, they are also good people like yours in coastal Andhra Pradesh. They continue to live so even after separation if they are really good people. If they turn bad, learn how to treat bad people and live with them only. You must change to live but not expect others to change to your demands. Ashok Babu forgot this fact. So, he is talking shamelessly in grounds thinking that he is a leader. A leader does not bring hundreds of sheep from coastal Andhra region in hired buses to talk some nonsense over there and make a fuss out of it but dies publicly like Potti Sri Ramulu. How many leaders and activists of agitation in coastal Andhra Pradesh die for this great cause? None! So, they are playing useless dramas on roads and public places to present their needs and demands as those of all of Andhra region. Is this not selfishness and narrow-mindedness? Then, how can these idiots and buffoons be considered as leaders? What can they achieve like spineless sheep? I would appreciate Sonia Gandhi if she can form a separate Telangana state because this fight is between the shallow, stupid, foolish, and shameless leaders of coastal Andhra region and her. If Sonia is Arjuna, I am the Lord Krishna in this battle between evil and virtue. I support my devotee, not thousands of sinners in coastal Andhra Pradesh. The formation of Telangana state is highly important now, let anything else happen, let thousands of Andhra people die on roads. I am least bothered and Sonia must not sympathize with stupid and brainless sheep, which are irrationally dying in valleys. Can we stop suicides of patients and sinners in India?

5. When one gets separated from one’s rich wife, for some or many reasons, one generally suffers and may lose many things in the process. If you want to get something from her, get it begging her like a poor and helpless buffoon but don’t demand it like a king or queen. She gives you nothing but kicks you out earlier than supposed. The same is the case with Telangana issue also. Many idiots and rogues might have gone to Hyderabad to work there and live there happily. Almost every capital region has these qualities of attraction and power in India. Did Telangana people ask you to come there and develop it? You went there out of your interests. It means you are a selfish and narrow-minded idiot. You did not go there to improve the lots of Telangana people. Now they are asking you to fuck off. If you think that you developed Telangana region for the last 50 years investing your intelligence and hard work, do the same coming back to your respective region instead of hanging with them. If you got talent and vision, you can use them anywhere in the world, not just in Telangana region. Just because you developed Telangana region, you cannot say that it belongs to you. Just because you educated your wife and empowered her to live on her own, when you were happy with her, as her husband, you cannot ask her to give back her educational certificates and present job, when you are getting separated from her out of divorce. Your past does not support you always. You have to build up your future when you have to separate from your glorious past. If separation is inevitable, accept it generously and withdraw yourself from that game silently. Making violence, you are showing that you cannot live without her. She is not interested in you. If you have self-respect, accept that divorce honestly, ideally and royally. Ask her for some alms for your livelihood. If you think that Telangana region has more water resources, coal mines and so many other attractions, which you don’t have in your region, be friendly with them even after separation and get them from them amicably and ideally. Give them your rice and port to use and take their coal and water like an ideal and visionary friend. They are not criminals and sinners. If you think so, why did you live with such criminals and sinners for all these years? They are ready to give you what you deserve but not what you demand. You have no moral authority to fight to live with your partner when she is not at all interested in that unhealthy affair any more. How many leaders and activists of the artificial and dirty agitations in coastal Andhra region have this common sense? Then, why are they disturbing public life for all these days? How can they be considered leaders when they don’t know how to treat their own people in their region?

6. I have been seeing hundreds of sheep on roads in coastal Andhra region during the last two months. Are these idiots and rogues really idealists and visionaries, who visualize pain and suffering to the people of Andhra region in the event of separation of Telangana region from the present Andhra Pradesh, with Hyderabad? Are there no local problems in their regions? How much time, energy, money and interest did they invest to develop their street or village or Mandal? How many beggars are sleeping at temples and on pavements in their regions daily suffering from hunger and diseases? Is there no pain and suffering around them? What did they do to solve those problems? Did they ever question the immoral and illegal activities of their MLAs and MPs and ministers? What did they do for their society so far? Why did they come on to the roads now only protesting against separate Telangana idea but not protesting against corruption, unrest, poverty, lack of infrastructure, education and so many other basic issues in their localities? It shows that, for them, agitation means, a silly and useless public show. They know that they can achieve nothing through their crazy and stupid demonstrations. So, they want to spend their time like this without going to colleges and taking their lives seriously for some period of time at least. Even our leaders want such sheep only. If principal says, all the students move on to roads but do not question him why they should go out? They came to a college for insightful education but not for a meaningless agitation. Then why are they appearing on roads? Because they don’t have individuality of their own. They do anything if their parents or principal says. They have no thoughts and vision of their own. They are brainless sheep. Millions of such sheep can do nothing against Sonia Gandhi if she has got a strong will to accord separate statehood to Telangana. If we make a promise  we must keep it at any cost. Great change takes place through application of strong power and idealism only. If Andhra idiots and rogues block their roads and close their shops and schools, their people only suffer. What to Pranab Mukherjee or Rahul Gandhi? Even a strand of hair does not move on their bodies because they know where and how to live comfortably. It is you that suffer shouting loudly on roads like lunatics! When do the sheep of Andhra movement understand this fundamental truth? What are they learning at schools, colleges and universities now? Perhaps, how to prove themselves as brainless sheep and sick dogs on roads through their circus. I hate them!

7. Millions of Indians are living in narrow domestic walls now thinking that they are political activists and leaders. If you want to see some of those dirty and shallow rogues in India now, you can come to Andhra region or watch television covering these agitations in this region. Dirty media giant is hungry for any news now. So, they project it as a great movement but unfortunately it is a clumsy public noise of thousands of brainless sheep. Such sheep cannot initiate a movement nor achieve anything through their narrow outlook and worthless efforts. Movement needs great individuals with appreciable characters, vision and planning. Sheep should graze in a calm field peacefully instead of coming on to the roads for achieving lofty goals and reaching ideal destinations. They can never do it.

8. Agitations of this order are plenty in India now. Thus we are allowing foreigners to realize how foolish, stupid and shallow we are. Telangana movement is just one example. Many agitations must be taking place in your region now or later. Before participating in such agitations and movements, answer yourself honestly and ideally to these questions, “Can I achieve anything participating in this agitation? Did anybody achieve anything till now in this format of public protest? Am I disturbing the rights of others as a participant in this agitation? If I disturb the lives of others through an agitation, am I a good citizen of India? Can I achieve anything damaging public property? Public means my brothers and sisters no, then why should I bother them in this order? For whom am I agitating, for me or other or others? If so, is this cause really worthy of that much public show? Does this agitation bring a positive or negative change in my region, state or India as a whole? I am a responsible citizen of India and so I should not behave like a buffoon on roads doing these monkey acts along with other donkeys? Can I solve it better through other means or ways uniting others intelligently and creatively? Am I applying my intelligence in this context?”

There are two supreme bodies in India to listen to your problems. One is the Supreme Court of India and the other is I. Anybody can approach any of these two if there are questions or complaints about what I wrote above. There are many judges in Supreme Court. It is a lengthy process. It is a single-judge court at my end. I always look for a challenger to complain against me anywhere in the world. How many get such a golden opportunity? I mean a platform to exhibit our voice and power widely. I am waiting for invitations to fight intellectually and creatively. I am a challenger in this agitation of thoughts. I am looking for active participants in this march towards bliss.

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