development .....but at what cost????

today the biggest challenge that the country faces is the way we are defining and setting new paradigms for the term called development...
the issue has been discussed at great length so u might b wondering what am doin here adding on to the already existing cornucopia of matter lying around ....
well let me set the record straight...a lot of the work lying around never gets read or if it does get so it seldom connects...the idea therefore is to open up a forum to develop the CONNECT that i feel is lacking and holding us back from acting...
so here i am
here i discuss the plight of tribals of this country and specifically my adopted state of Orissa which houses some of the rarest and largest of tribal communities that are facing annihalation at the hand of an irresponsive govt that is hand in glove with some of the worst environment violators like vedanta which has been denounced by the norwegian govt but has been accepted with open arms by the orrisa govt ....
we today have tribals being displaced and massacred for development to take place....it confuses me what time period am in....fascist period or nazi times..i dunno the similarities are excruciatingly close....we are witnessing ethnic cleansing with a govt mandate attached to it...we witness innocent tribal men women and children being made cannon fodder for these conglomerates to float their grandiose megalomaniac plans
it pains me when we a kalinganagar or a maikanch happens and we stay on sidelines and watch on...
also how many tribal lives need to be sacrificed for the govt to realize what it is actually doing or being reduced to....a mere pawn..in the cycle of greed of blind capitalists....!!
also the other issue is how many tribal sacrifices is the critical figure for the gvt....coz these massacres dun manage to elicit ne response frum the govt and the process of forcefully uprooting people continues as if nothin happened
it defies common sense to exploit these areas that are biological hotspots as well and necessary for ecological balance that is already hanging by a precipice...
if we look at what is happening at Niyamgiri in Rayagarh district of orrisa then one will realise the gargatuan folly vedanta is up to when a bauxite plant is being planned at an ecologically sensitive zone as that
there are countless examples that defy common sense that i can quote but the bottom line stays the same...someone out there is dying to save his land from being taken away....
this is the legacy of developement in one of india's most wealthy states....
i will return with some insider perspective soon
till then
ADIOS!!!!