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Everyday, we read new reports of scams operating at the highest levels of government that run into thousands of crores while multitudes are left to hustle for the very basics of life -- food, clothes and shelter. While Delhi Sultanate verse speaks of the sorrow of a state waging war against its own people and names some of the many politicians with 'Swiss bank' accounts, Comrade Bant warns of a time when injustice has crossed the critical threshold and the people have united and risen up in anger -- "Those who (Government) made false promises are now trembling / The will to tell the truth has awakened across the nation."
As we speak, in many parts of the country people have risen up in arms and in most cases the state has responded with yet more violence while root causes remain unaddressed. Time and time again, peaceful protests such as Irom Sharmila's ten year hunger fast, fall on deaf ears and receive little media attention, while violent uprisings grab the headlines.