It has been three years since I have passed out from school, and heard these saying. “The world is moving in a Ferrari, and we are still in bullock cart.” These very words were once said by my Physics teacher Mr. Prabin Moktan. Presently we have reached such a scenario that these sayings, holds good. Every time I think, about the people and the state we are living in, it reminds me about these words.
Decades have passed, since the gorkhaland movement began. Started by supremo Shri Subash Ghishing and presently it has seen its zenith under our new leader Mr.Bimal Gurung.
Our century long demand has always reached to the deaf ears, at the centre. This continuing struggle of ours, has led to a lot of changes in the hills. Our constant pressure has yield to the grant of greater autonomous ,power has been exchanged in the political front, people have started to think ,debate, go for mass peaceful movements and voices has become united. But along with these changes are we ever going along a right direction??
As, with these changes we have come a long way listening to the various objectives ,plans , facts, forecast from our leaders. Leaders , who have been a source of “hope”, a hope for a change. But this, hope of ours has always rested on their shoulders, but power and supremacy in their minds. Do you think we were ever walking or still walking in the right path?? The path that is graved by our leaders, to the world of progress, opportunity and change. Where progress have always meant having a bee line of Scorpios in the garage ,opportunity, of not allowing any healthy opposition and mocking who ever opposes and change, setting up things from bad to worse . People have the meaning of these set of integral words changed for us forever? Shall our hope always remain one, as a myth, or may it turn into a reality? A reality which we have always dreamt of, with better standard of living, infrastructure, education. Cause people somewhere or the other we are fighting a lone battle, with our leaders on the other hand fighting their own battle for supremacy. Are we, our hope and the “Gorkhaland” issue just a scapegoat in their battle of supremacy? Or are they working into it with the same intent and vigour, with which they stand and deliver their promise, in front of thousand of hopes. Are the agenda they set before us, just as mere “rherotic” as ever before??
Reflect back!!!!! Cause we never had leaders like Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara .For now we need leaders like them, who asked “ what’s our cause and not what’s mine”. We need leaders with common agenda, with the founding principle of progressiveness. We need leaders who are united and closely knit with our cause and not pulling out into different direction with our cause,only in their agenda.
As now, we are in 2010 and as told, this is one of those years by when things needed to have been done. But no, we are nowhere near, to the forecast that has been made. At present the forecast of statehood in the hills can be shifted to another elegant rounded year like 2020 or perhaps even 2050.
People here I am not tying to be “pessimist” or “morbid”, though we are just in the beginning of the year and though we are putting pressure to the centre as never before. But people get “real”, at least now. We are in 2010 and still on a bullock cart. Are we ever going to step into a Ferrari or forever be content with the bullock cart???????
Kunjan.
