[Reader-list] anti corruption movement in india a different view

[Gianni]

Sounds like DSU are telling it how it is. The truth is there is huge divide. 

Gianni
gana at iinet.net.au

On 16/09/2011, at 6:02 PM, pradeep shetty <pradeepcheri2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> *THIS IS RUBBISH PLS DO NOT SEND SUCH MAILS . IF YOU CANNOT DO GOOD TO THIS
> COUNTRY KEEP QUITE. BUT KINDLY DO NOT MAKE NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA ON SRI ANNA
> HAZARE MOVEMENT.HE IS ALSO DOING  GOOD TO YOU TOO.*
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM, asit das <asit1917 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Manufacturing Dissent, Making Mahatmas: Manu, Market, Media
>> And The Anti-Corruption Sham
>> 
>> *By Democratic Students' Union (DSU) *
>> 
>> *All historical struggles, whether they occur in the political, religious,
>> philosophical or some other ideological domain, *
>> *are in fact only the more or less clear expression of the struggles of
>> social classes – Engels *
>> 
>> 
>> *When two events occur in the same space and time, more often than not,
>> there is a correlation between the two. *On the one hand the Indian Army,
>> paramilitary and police forces — acting so plainly and clearly on behalf of
>> the Indian ruling classes and multinational corporations—which continue to
>> mount a war on the people of central and eastern India in order to
>> facilitate a naked appropriation of the region's resources is given
>> marching
>> orders to fight the most dispossessed yet resilient masses. Then there are
>> 80% of the country's population forced to eke out a living on a mere Rs.20
>> per day and over half of the children suffer from the permanent
>> malnourishment because of the genocidal famine conditions their families
>> have been placed under; land acquisition of a mammoth scale affects
>> millions
>> of people whose sole means of livelihood is being alienated from them;
>> thousands of small peasants are forced to find ‘escape' from an endemic
>> agrarian crisis by committing suicide; over 2700 bodies of Kashmiris
>> murdered by the Indian army once again reveals a Kashmir under occupation
>> by
>> India and the crushing of its struggle for national liberation—to name but
>> a
>> few instances revealing the brutal and systemic exploitation, oppression
>> and
>> occupation. And people are waging resilient struggles in many parts of the
>> country against the ruling classes. On the other hand a base, distasteful
>> drama is unfolding in front of us—the drama of an ‘anti-corruption drive',
>> which is supposed to serve India a ‘second independence'. Needless to say,
>> although this