To be a man is banned in the world. Particularly so in India. You are permitted and groomed to be anything except a man. From the pettiest of the establishments to the highest Institutions—like the Prime Minister’s Office—in practice, everywhere you hear the deafening admonition: Don’t be a man! Don’t be a man!… Kill every trace of the human being that may be surviving within you!…If you are obstinate enough to keep striving towards becoming a human being, it will be at your own peril; you will be destroyed for sure!

Yet there is a tiny fraction of the individuals who disregard all the warnings and all the humiliations they meet; they tend to preserve, enhance and extend the human beings in them. They refuse to be the beasts. And, of course, they meet their ruin.

To remain silent about the injustices, atrocities, chaos, lawlessness, tyranny, etc., is the job of those who are endowed with the bestial minds. However little or huge the magnitude of vanity, self-righteousness and oppression may be, silence about it is tantamount to supporting it. To a human being, death while fighting against the republic of monsters is far more honourable than the silence or abject surrender before it.

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Since 1989AD, I have been planning to write a novel, "The Institution", about Kashmir, but such an undertaking, such a tremendous responsibility needs a great leisure and freedom. I couldn’t manage that. Other urgent things have been consuming my time so awfully that I have to drop the idea, and content myself with this short work for the time being.

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The following pages can be enjoyable to any reader who feels or knows that even the smallest of the insignificant fights—by even the most ordinary, obscure persons—throw some light upon the causes and remedies of any phenomenon, and, consequently, they are worthy

of some analysis and criticism, worthy of being read when they appear in the print, and, above all, worthy of being understood.

Owing to the global epidemic of an ocean of overproduction on the one hand, and widespread poverty, misery and scarcity on the other, we are currently in the ultra-savage, ultra-insane and the sickest period of the world-history. The events of the last decade of the twentieth century, the Iraq wars, the Rwandan massacre, Yugoslav genocide, Kosovo slaughters and the Afghan war were but the prelude to the Third Idiotic War, the first chapter of which is currently being written in Iraq. The chapters that the masters of ultra-savagery propose to write, are: Iran, Syria, Libya, Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, …China, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany... Will their plans work according as they desire it under their insane and savage-most compulsions and needs? How many of the world’s people shall still be surviving in 2013AD? Nobody knows the answers. There is a great possibility that something hitherto known only to the world of snakes may happen. A snake catches another by the head and starts swallowing it; yet another comes from the other side and starts swallowing the doomed prey from the side of its tail. The two powerful snakes go on enjoying the feast till they reach to the position where no more of the reptile they were relishing is left. Their teeth confront each other’s. There is no escape for the two held face to face thus with each other. One must consume the other with all its contents in its mouth and belly. If that happens, world’s people are fortunate.

At present though there is a daily advertisement that the "sweet" flesh of the carcass of Iraq is meant bear’s share for the bear, pig’s share for the pig, vulture’s share for the vulture, crow’s share for the crow, and so on. Jackals, wolves, dogs, cats, tigers, etc., all are invited to have a nibble of the delicacy in the feast with their Peace Keeping Forces.