देख महाभारत का रण..

मृतकोसे भरी हुई भू हैं, पहचान कहाँ इसमें तू हैं
यह देख जगत का आदि-अन्त, यह देख, महाभारत का रण

Dantewada happened yesterday. It prompted Union Home Minister to say " The war has been thrust upon us".

From here in Raipur(Chhatisgarh), it seemed like it was waiting to happen for years and for decades together. And I am not talking about the operational failures of CRPF but the political failures of successive governments to deliver the promise of India to the jungles of Bastar pushing the tribals in abject povery.

However, it's no time for such analysis, as the battlelines are drawn and the guns are pointed. Massive force at an unprecedented scale is deployed at the heart of country against our own poeple. For the first time since independence unmanned aircrafts shall be used against India's own citizens. We are becoming a Pakistan -- a state we love to abhor, by authorizing use of such aerial strikes.

अब रण होगा, जीवन-जय या कि मरण होगा।
रण ऐसा होगा , फिर कभी नहीं जैसा होगा।
भाई पर भाई टूटेंगे, विष-बाण बूँद-से छूटेंगे,
फण शेषनाग का डोलेगा, विकराल काल मुँह खोलेगा।
रण ऐसा होगा , फिर कभी नहीं जैसा होगा।

I am caught in a situation where I cannot renounce my own government as it would tantamount to dishonouring the supreme sacrifice of CRPF jawans. While at the same time I cannot stand by the government for its criminal neglegance of Bastars for years together.
I feel like Karna in Mahabharat..

है ऋणी कर्ण का रोम-रोम, जानते सत्य यह सूर्य-सोम
तन मन धन दुर्योधन का है, यह जीवन दुर्योधन का है
सुर पुर से भी मुख मोडूँगा,
केशव ! मैं उसे न छोडूंगा ..मैं उसे न छोडूंगा ..