A tribute to Surendra Mohan by NAPM
A tribute to Surendra Mohan by NAPM
If (a big if) they come to power in Afghanistan, they will establish a strong nexus between the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and their regime in Afghanistan. Then there will be double route traffic. Herds and herds of Taliban will be moving to and from Pakistan, some will be driven, others will move willingly and they will kill, destroy and pick up whatever will come in their way. There will be pitched battles among them and perhaps we will find ourselves standing in their rows.
Come to think of it, there is, really, nothing new about corporates trying to influence either the formation or the functioning of governments — and with the connivance of the media and media-persons.
“PLEASE do not talk to Manju about the incident. Although it happened nine months back, she has still not recovered,†cautioned Sunita, 46, a domestic worker, while referring to her niece who survived a sexual assault attempt by her exemployer’s 24-year-old son. This happened four months after Manju, 19, left her village in the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh for her first job ever as a housemaid in Delhi. “Manju ran away from that house. She reached me in a hysterical state. I was shocked to know what she had experienced. When I confronted Manju’s employers, they refused to believe me and instead called Manju and me whores, physically pushing me out of the house. The police did nothing to help. Who should I go to?†asked an angry Sunita. Scores of domestic workers like Sunita rallied at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar recently to raise this question. Unfortunately, the Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Bill 2010, that is awaiting enactment in Parliament, offers them neither an answer nor any redress.
Grassroots accounts of the tragic events of partition are increasingly in the spotlight in studies of the transfer of power. This paper approaches the local perspective through the memories of British civil servants during their last few months in Punjab, assessing what these reflections suggest about the mentality of the departing ruling elite. The similarities between these recorded experiences suggest a process of coming to terms with grief and guilt for what they had witnessed through the creation of a narrative of transition from total power to total loss; a simplified imagery of a fully operational and peaceful pre-1947 Punjab descending with shocking suddenness into the violence of partition. This process of shaping memories not only offers an insight into the British civil servant’s need for self-affirmation and a reaffirming of their sense of personal as well as professional value, but also has a broader importance in understanding the mentality of a group of people at the heart of pre-partition Punjab, who were instrumental in defining the emerging independent nation.
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