Worth reading real story

My personal feeling and thinking has been that as and when the dejected, rejected and oppressed people react, there is definitely a cause. It is this hopeless stage of the poor and the exploited ones that they are being seduced or lured by some organizations or even parties, for example the Maoists', thus adding to the numbers in their fold in geometrical progression. When enough becomes enough, such sets of people join the band of the revolutionaries and vow to take a revenge with those who in the past exploited this lot or remained instrumental for their never ending poverty. Perhaps all these theories and the happenings in the societies prompted the communists to propound their own preferred set of definition of what is being known as communism. It is altogether a different matter that the Nepalese communists have themselves become number one exploiters who could be seen today in posh buildings and riding the PRADO and the likes and that too in the name of the exploited ones which is what they still claim. Yet they never forget to teach their voters the lessons of moral values and the likes.

Well, I'm not an expert on Maoism nor I possess any desire to command its theory, good or bad whatever it is. I leave it to the qualified ones. However, one incident that I recently knew from an old professional colleague of mine is simply provoking. The journo has just returned from his home town in DANG district, in the western region of this nation. The story what he revealed happened just across the border of his district. The story runs as follows.

A widow with two kids to nourish felt that unless she sold a small chunk of her land she could not sustain her family life. She decided to sell the land and fortunately one gentleman came to her rescue. The illiterate lady was at this point got summarily cheated by the land buyer. What this gentleman did was simply horrible and disgusting. He managed the signature of the widow for all of the lands in her possession and paid the amount as per the agreement between the two. In fact, she had only sold a piece of her land but not all. The person, who should undoubtedly be a VIP of the area, got it registered in his name in the appropriate government offices. The office changed the ownership of the land.

The widow thought that she still possessed some land and when it came the paddy plantation time, she was told that she had already loosed the ownership of the land to the buyer. Indeed she was thus cheated. The innocent lady rushed to the government's office where she was told that she had already put her signatures for all the land and hence nothing could be done in this regard.

Consider the mental agony of the lady after being cheated by his own village man.

This act of cheat slowly spread over the entire area . A week later, some civilians came to see the lady and asked the details of the deal. She described the strangers all that had happened. A week later of this event, suddenly the buyer is seen at the lady's house accompanied by the strange persons who earlier had come to see the lady.

The strangers grilled the buyer who later got the point and admitted that he had cheated the illiterate and innocent lady.

The strangers told the buyer not to repeat such acts of cheating or else consequences would be chaotic. Here too the buyer got the point.

The strangers managed the land back to the lady.

The strangers were, told my journalist friend, the active members of the Maoists' organization.

Perhaps this explains so many things.

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