My response to B Raman's article on Bajrang Dal. Unfortunately, the situation is getting out of control in India and as I had pointed out in one of my earlier articles a couple of years back - on xanga.com or here - I don't remember, India will probably be getting into a civil war due to the growing dissatisfaction and increasing disparity in the different classes of society.

The worst impacted will be the urban city dwellers who have become so used to a western lifestyle that they consider themselves as aliens living in India.

So beware all those English Speaking brand conscious pseudo intellectuals with zilch value systems - you are the most targetted brand by the value conscious 'underpriviledged, uncared for' class of society...

----------

Mr. Raman, your views are very poignant and analysis is very critical. But I as the common man of India want to know whether branding helps a person like me feel safety in this country??
Be it Bajrang Dal, Be it SIMI, will branding them as terrorist groups help as long as the laws to hold them as convicts and punish them for their acts of violence are not upheld?
Is Indian law and police not to be held responsible for being so lackadaisical in executing swift action on the perpetrators of crime?
Branding and banning will make these outfits take new forms (like maybe the erstwhile Raktabeeja, who used to be born/cloned off his own blood).
The common criminal too sees this as an opportunity to make the most of these lacking times of law and order and make a killing, literally and figuratively.
In the city of Indore, where I live and where my old parents live, I do not feel any more sense of safety. I have heard people/fruit/vegetable vendors talk about carrying sickles with them and not fearing to use them in case of extreme road rage. In such a situation, how do you expect the BD's activists who wield weapons openly to be branded and left unpunished???
Who will restore this law and order eventually??