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Hit the fool’s eye
Nothing happens for the better or for this verse
What does is a series of disparate twinklings
Some can make you, some can break you
The quirk of fate sounds too brood to be true
I ought to be laughing at you pitiable souls
For those who can, do; those who can’t, leave it to fate
Some die chasing a mirage, some a reality of justice
They ash themselves to ashes, others dust it to dust
It is always the unstable of decrepit minds
Left satiated by the targets of achievement.
• Collection:
The Fire of Nothingness
• Originally written on
June 26, 2002
[ First published: November 22, 2008
Last updated: November 22, 2008
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The BlackBerry, the elite, and a question of civil liberties
The Indian elite is known for many things good, bad and ugly, its ostrich syndrome being one. Any ill that does not plague it, simply does not exist. A liberalised socio-economic regime gives it all the privileges that it barefacedly demands; civil liberties always go to hell and stay there.
So when civil liberties activists raised the alarm after the Indian laws governing cyberspace and online activities came into force, no one took any cognizance of them. Street dogs after all are wont to bark. At every one, at everything. India Inc was gung ho about development, never mind what that means, and the media was dutifully reflecting this misplaced euphoria. Everyone used the Internet, the Internet made money for everyone, this way and that. Till one fine day.
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On August 10, a frantic message landed in the mailbox of members of a Facebook group called Save Niyamgiri. Two leaders of the Dongria-Kondh tribe’s resistance to a controversial mine in Orissa’s Lanjigarh were said to have been abducted, and had subsequently gone missing. The two men were reported to have been ambushed at the base of the hill range where they live, bundled into a vehicle at gunpoint, and driven away. They were not being held at local police stations, Lanjigarh or Muniguda. A third person accompanying them was left alone.
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