Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Open Letter from India to Mahathir and UMNO

Open Letter from India to Mahathir and UMNO

December 20, 2011

http://countercurrents.org/sroy141211.htm

Open Letter from India to Mahathir as good as UMNO

by Siddharthya Swapan Roy (12-14-11)

14 December, 2011

Dear Mr Mahathir,

A integrate of days behind we woke up to Indian newspaper reports that quoted we as saying that India's democracy is a hindrance to its growth as good as if we did divided with a nuisance of democracy we will be become grown (1).

Well Sir, it is heartening to see your concern about India's future. Especially right divided that a own inaugurated government has orphaned us, someone from a outside caring about a growth sounds so unequivocally nice. But we see Sir, your (apparently) great intentions notwithstanding, your recommendation to Indians is, good how should we put itill-advised. I'm not unequivocally sure if we know most about a history of a nation. Don't get me wrong.

Know Your Facts

Going by facts similar to a general deficiency of news from Malaysia's newspapers; a deficiency of anything though strain as good as dance in your electronic media; a deficiency of bookstores that sell knowledgeable books (for example, a ones from that we can sense about history as good as not how to get rich in 6 steps); a abundance of malls as good as a stark deficiency of libraries; a abundance of coaching centers that can make masseurs, air hostesses as good as a host of discerning fix technicians as good as a relative deficiency of centres of aloft learning generally in a amicable sciences; as good as upon top of all a actuality that this insanely consumerist as good as sensualist Malaysia w! as done underneath your tutelage, creates me doubt your knowledge of a history of India or any republic for that matter.

Understand a Story of Indian Independence

So allow me to announce we of a story of a Independence. We won Independence from colonial rulers waging a long as good as torturous battle. A conflict that sought to replace a discriminatory, unjust as good as aroused regime that had deferential outrageous populations with a single that was formed upon a ideology of liberty, equivalence as good as fraternity.

India was home then, as is right divided as good as as will always be, to an measureless diversity of people who spoke opposite tongues, prayed to opposite Gods, wore opposite clothes as good as had opposite domestic beliefs. These diverse people said to any alternative that we, notwithstanding a differences, will letter to live as good as flourish together as good as make a emperor republic that will be democratic, revolutionary as good as secular. We did not anywhere contend that we wish to be Malaysia or for that make a difference China or a USA.

India treats all its citizen as equal

We wish to become a republic with a complement that treats all its adults as equal distinct your nation that strictly accords special rights to Malay Muslims calling them first category adults whilst relegating thousands of people of Tamil, Chinese as good as alternative racial origins. Despite a actuality that they have well known no alternative land alternative than Malaysia as their own, we denigrate them with a tab of being second category citizens.

Meritocracy as good as Hard Work, Not Identity-based Cartelisation

We try to work towards carrying a complement wherein a person will grow according to his consequence as good as hard work earning what he has rightfully earned. You might be astounded to know that here in India making cartels formed upon identity, even if undern! eath a n ame of bumiputra or son-of-the-soil, is called cartelisation as good as is looked down upon by most of us.

Here promoting a resourceful interests of one's self or that of his family is called crime as good as nepotism as good as not, as we call it, development. We have been in actuality fighting tooth as good as nail to detain a flay of crime as good as (you'll be shocked to know) get a guilty punished.

In India, No One is Above a Law

Here in India no a single is upon top of a law as good as most a times powerful open figures go to prison for being hurtful or subverting a law. Now that we have been during it, Sir, I'm sure it would be interesting to know what a minorities of we countries have to contend generally a jailed as good as beaten ones about a development-democracy debate.

In actuality Sir, your thought of growth is mostly during odds with most of us here. What we did to a tropical forests as good as water-bodies of Malaysia (that is raze immeasurable acres of them in to oblivion making approach for large bucks palm oil plantations as good as piggeries as good as so on) would means outrageous outrage amongst most of us who have been looking for sustainable development.

We have been yet to be unanimously assured that making cemented roads however broad, lining them with buildings even if potion covered as good as glossy, putting cars upon them however quick they have been is a surrogate for a valued bio-diversity. Many of us have been unequivocally assured that displacing outrageous populations of native people for useless things similar to racing tracks is a peck upon a word 'development'.

There have been most of us who find it a shameful as good as vicious pomposity that in your nation can have abounding openly advertised sex tourism as good as still whip women for being licentious! Thanks to a enlightenment of reading here, most of us know of your penchant for cruelty in your personal career. A career during that we e! nacted d espotic as good as aroused acts during times in a name of (your warped chronicle of Islam) as good as during times in a name of confidence as good as inhabitant interest.

Malaysia's Internal Security Act, 1960

We could recount how we rose to energy annihilating outrageous numbers of your opponents as good as stayed there for over two decades continuing your divergent rule regulating strategy as good as schemes that have been distant over Machiavelli. Many of us know about your sinister Internal Security Act 1960, that we used to vanquish domestic opposition jailing as good as murdering them with parole as good as putting in place a thin as good as near assume democracy fixation a complete republic underneath a a single man rule of a UNMO for over two decades.

You will note that in a letter upon top of we have used words similar to "most of us" "many of us" as good as have attempted to stay divided form absolute claims. Besides a age aged Indian practice of accommodating opposite opinions, it is meant to recognize that there have been people in this nation as well who consider similar to we as good as will have applauded we for saying what we did.

They as well consider that roads have been all that have been important as good as not a humans that walk upon them or a ones that sleep beside them. They have misconstrued a word growth as growth of personal resources as good as that this 'development' is a holy cow as good as all together with a rights as good as lives of associate humans is a obtuse priority. Their money energy helps them buy a lot of print space as good as electronic bandwidth so they might crop up similar to a majority, though thankfully a law is they aren't.

Development by Increasing Democracy

The majority of us recognize as good as have been peaceful to confess as good as even discuss during length that there have been problems in a republic together with bad roads. But they'll fast su! pplement that we intend to compromise those not by lessening democracy though by increasing it.

1. Speech upon December 2 Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi

The bard is a freelance bard as good as romantic formed in Maharashtra. siddharthyaroy@gmail.com