Walking the "red corridor"

For the politicians in this country walking the 'red carpets' has become a business as usual. Today Bollywood icons are more and more eying to walk the 'red carpets' in "Cannes" and "London", rather than trying to remain afloat walking the ramps within the glamour corridors of India. In the post independent India "power and paisa" have surely become a "fevicol ka jod" for the politicians as well as for the affluent in the society. Unfortunately they only constitute just a small fraction of the Pie "India". The rest of this pie constitute the "Aam Aadmi", a tribe that remains constantly harassed by inflation and insecurity as well as poverty and prejudice. For this lot the proverbial "sun shine" seems to remain in perpetual eclipse.

Way back in 60's a movement got initiated by the peasants and tribals in this country to fight against exploitations and atrocities of the zamindars and the "Richie Rich", of the society. Very soon even the educated intellectuals from the premier institutes like IITs and B'Schools became the part of this movement. The movement that started as a "Naxilite" movement from the district of Naxalbari in West Bengal has today become a strong "Maoist" movement. There are about 170 districts falling under 13 states that has become a "Maoist" inferno. This belt is called the "Red Corridor" and runs through the dense forest and tribal belt, from Nepal through Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and all the way to Andhra Pradesh and to the upper reaches of Maharashtra, and some parts of Karnataka.

The recent Maoist massacre in "Dantewada", a distict of Chhattisgarh may for us be a point of our "drawing room" discussions. However all is not well. Our government as well as our politicians still continue to remain "put" into the "cockpits" of a "radar less" flight to nowhere. I am sure if this continues very soon we will find ourselves walking the "red corridors" across all the "Metropolitan Cities" of this great India...