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citizenship papers, even if they are carries for each one of them. What, there, and its sure to die. So the poor
genuine citizens of the country! with families fractured, with one or two human being cannot take the strain of
members either falling grievously ill, if getting uprooted from his or her own
ho the hell will be there to not dead or else thrown in the deporta- home land.
hear them out, to even bother tion category. As good as dead! Almost The establishment cannot perhaps
Wto know the facts to their akin to plucking out the living from the see the social disasters that are bound
existence here on this soil, for decades established settings, throwing them to come along, with fresh upheavals
if not even longer? Who will be there here and there, leaving them to perish. taking place. The living conditions are
to hear their genuine pleas? Who will Try uprooting even a tree, even with anyway turning hellish and these new
rescue them, pull them out from the the intention of re-planting it here or dictates will compound the mess. There

various detention centres? Who will Instead of the will be many more crimes and many
give a damn if families are torn apart more criminals coming up. Rapes of
and divided because the vital citizen- establishment the psyche and also of the form will
ship documents were ruined in the confronting the only accelerate with turbulence hitting
flood fury or in earthquakes or in the many more…
various day to day disasters taking human disasters Don’t overlook the fact that rapists
place in the life and times of the and tragedies come from within this society, they are
human being in these developed part of our society and so we cannot
times! taking place in Assam, distance ourselves. We, as a society,
In fact, before any of the rulers of are decaying and this decay has got be
the day can even contemplate the there’s coming up settled as swiftly as possible. Nah, not
implementation of the NRC in the this big scare for the by uprooting hundreds but by trying to
country, they ought to walk around control the ongoing mess, the virtual
and talk to the people of Assam — that rest of the citizens hell that everyday living is turning out
is, interact with all those affected by and residents of the to be.
the National Register of Citizens ( NRC),
to listen to those deadly offshoots it country LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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