Resist the Evil Modi Regime: It's the Impending Doom!
Sukla Sen
Why such pointless obsession with the label?
(Even Lenin, of course with some visible difficulty, could manage to blurt out "concrete analysis of the concrete situation".)
The Modi regime is right out there before our very own eyes.
It's just not the "main enemy", it's the impending doom.
Never mind if it's a category which just doesn't figure in the (yellowed pages of the) holy scriptures.
The regime has got to be resisted wherever, whenever and in company with whomsoever possible.
As and when the occasion arises.
And these occasions will belong to different terrains, different planes and different time slots.
No need to be overmuch bothered as regards a "Popular Front".
The specific nature of a particular resistance would determine the shape of the "front", if at all any, that'd spearhead it.
Maybe, down the line, at some point of time, a wider "front" would emmerge.
The focus, however, must be on the act of resisting, *not* on any (preconceived) "front".
The "front" will follow, and evolve, in due course - as the resistance gains momentum.
It's difficult to predict, in advance, which ones - if at all any, are going to click.
Mass resistance has its own mysterious dynamics.
Right now, Raghuram Rajan, a diehard economic neoliberal, has publicly come out - while comfortably ensconced in the other end of the globe, with a strong condemnation of the way two eminences - broadly belonging to his own tribe, have been made to resign from a highly elitist private university.
Never ever bother whether any of these three would qualify as a constituent in a "Popular Front".
Seize the opportunity with both the hands and drum up as much as possible.
Maybe - only maybe, it'd snowball.
Forget about the great sages, just remember what an inimitable Sukumar Ray - a Bengali poet of some distinction known primarily for his "nonsense rhymes", had, in effect, boldly underlined: (Not even the best book of wisdom will tell you) what to do, when, all of a sudden, a rogue bull starts chasing after you.
There's no substitute - just none, for application of one's own mind.
That's the greatest gem of wisdom.
The Buddha had put it thus: Appo Deepo Bhava (Be a light unto yourself)!
Use your mind and resist!
In the most effective ways possible.