To
The Commissioner of Police
Kolkata
Lalbazar
We have no option but to come out in non violent protest, it is our right, it is what the utopia of the independence movement was all about. We know you are doing your duty by obeying your political masters, but i write to remind you that you are one of us and not one of them.
When a police man is killed , his body does not go back to a palatial house like those of our politicians and our corporate masters. His body goes back to a normal working class house, his mother or wife will struggle for his pension just like ours.
It is important that at this historic moment in post independence history, the police force becomes the defenders of democracy and not politicians.
I will say no more to you.
If we die on the other sides of humanity, i will pray for your soul.
Rahul Bhattacharya
P-111 Block -F
New Alipore
Kolkata 700053
22/9/2014
The Commissioner of Police
Kolkata
Lalbazar
Re: Role of Police in today's politics and the democratic future of India.
Sir,
I write this letter addressing you because the situation in Kolkata deserves such; but in spirit this letter is written to the police force of India at large.
I write this letter addressing you because the situation in Kolkata deserves such; but in spirit this letter is written to the police force of India at large.
For the first time since independence we are witnessing such wide scale police violence on civilians. It has come to such a scale that it is now like the police violence on Indians during the British Raj.
As a thinking individual you must be well aware that the political circle and the corporates are waging an economic and a knowledge war on the working and peasant class of India, including its adivasis. Gender, specifically the woman's body has become an important site of this conflict.
As a thinking individual you must be well aware that the political circle and the corporates are waging an economic and a knowledge war on the working and peasant class of India, including its adivasis. Gender, specifically the woman's body has become an important site of this conflict.
We have no option but to come out in non violent protest, it is our right, it is what the utopia of the independence movement was all about. We know you are doing your duty by obeying your political masters, but i write to remind you that you are one of us and not one of them.
When a police man is killed , his body does not go back to a palatial house like those of our politicians and our corporate masters. His body goes back to a normal working class house, his mother or wife will struggle for his pension just like ours.
It is important that at this historic moment in post independence history, the police force becomes the defenders of democracy and not politicians.
I will say no more to you.
If we die on the other sides of humanity, i will pray for your soul.
Rahul Bhattacharya
P-111 Block -F
New Alipore
Kolkata 700053
22/9/2014
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