[Reader-list] Fwd: stop the award to narendra modi

[Murali V]

Why not we also strengthen our voice to get the entire corrupt black
money hoarded by the politicians since Independence.

Regards,
V Murali

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Rakesh Iyer<rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Cheri
>
> This only means we should further strengthen the voices of those who
> suffered thanks to the mass murder under his reign. He undermined the very
> oath a Chief Minister has to take under the Constitution. This is not just a
> fight for justice for these victims, the way I look at it. This is a fight
> against those who taint the very principles for which our fathers and their
> fathers fought against the British Raj. The intention was not to shift the
> capital from London to New Delhi and be happy that we have gained political
> independence.
>
> The idea was to secure political, social and economic freedoms and
> entitlements for our people, who had been subjected to arbitrary and gross
> violations of their rights by the British and continue to be done so by
> leaders, from Nehru to Modi, in one way or the other, from dams to SEZ's to
> toying with the environment.
>
> Such awards are only a manifestation of the way the elites have manipulated
> the views and structures of organizations to work for them, at the expense
> of common people, the subalterns. And they should be thoroughly condemned
> and lambasted and lampooned. Mass murderers and awards?? What next? Osama
> Bin Laden winning Nobel?
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
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