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Part 10 · VIDEHA MITHILA MAITHILI DISCUSSION CRITICISM SERIES PART 10
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  9. 0:26–0:31packet of food. He cannot believe that amid all these accusations someone could also
  10. 0:31–0:34give him food.
  11. 0:34–0:42He did. This is your dinner. They will not feed you at the jail tonight, that is why.
  12. 0:42–0:49You will be held in Tihar jail in Delhi. There is a Tamil Nadu police unit there. It
  13. 0:49–0:55was called in after Charles Chowbhraj escaped from prison on the theory that because they
  14. 0:55–1:02did not understand the local language, they would be unable to strike deals with any prisoner.
  15. 1:02–1:08But within two months, every one of them had learnt the local language. Still, you will
  16. 1:08–1:16be able to talk to them. The language of the stomach is understood before any other.
  17. 1:16–1:22In Tihar, Newteliff may be able to exchange a few words with them. He may even find a
  18. 1:22–1:26way to engage a lawyer for himself.
  19. 1:26–1:31He is asking whether you gave it to him.
  20. 1:31–1:33My lord.
  21. 1:33–1:35This Mütlif is the real criminal.
  22. 1:35–1:38His story is a lie.
  23. 1:38–1:42Playing cricket in broad daylight on the seashore is proof of his idleness.
  24. 1:42–1:47Mütlif says he was unemployed, and that is why he played cricket during the day.
  25. 1:47–1:49Then his story goes on.
  26. 1:49–1:52Hababullah meets him and asks him, are you unemployed?
  27. 1:52–1:57He gives him a job, carrying a pressure cooker in a bag, packed with spices.
  28. 1:57–2:02This man transported narcotic powder hidden between the pressure cooker's double walls,
  29. 2:02–2:08flying back and forth, and earning 10,000 rupees for every trip without lifting a finger.
  30. 2:08–2:12And now he claims that he knew nothing, that he had no idea what he was carrying inside
  31. 2:12–2:14that pressure cooker.
  32. 2:14–2:19The ignorance bred by poverty is also part of the crime, my lord.
  33. 2:19–2:25And then, of course, the principal criminal is Habibullah.
  34. 2:25–2:29Counsel, Mutilif has not engaged any lawyer.
  35. 2:29–2:32He is not the principal offender.
  36. 2:32–2:37Find a Tamil lawyer and ask them to secure his bail at the next bail hearing.
  37. 2:37–2:45If justice cannot understand a language, it ceases to be justice and becomes mere procedure.
  38. 2:45–2:47I am Tamil myself.
  39. 2:47–2:51I have handled many cases like this, especially for Tamil people who become trapped in Delhi
  40. 2:51–2:54because of a language crisis.
  41. 2:54–2:58I am the public prosecutor, so I cannot argue on his behalf.
  42. 2:58–3:01But my assistant lawyer is always hanging around my office.
  43. 3:01–3:06He will certainly help him.
  44. 3:06–3:10What have you got yourself entangled in?
  45. 3:10–3:12Mutelef is not a criminal at all.
  46. 3:12–3:16A narcotics mafia used him and trapped him.
  47. 3:16–3:18Habibila.
  48. 3:18–3:23Acting on a tip, we raided his house in Chennai, but found nothing.
  49. 3:23–3:27The drugs were recovered from Mutilif, yes.
  50. 3:27–3:30But he is only a chess piece, a foot soldier.
  51. 3:30–3:32Upon.
  52. 3:32–3:35Where is the hand that moves the piece?
  53. 3:35–3:40A lame man from my village, Lulha, walks to Baba Dam every year.
  54. 3:40–3:45Piya Bacha, from the same village, flies there every year.
  55. 3:45–3:49Both have been making that pilgrimage continuously for twenty years.
  56. 3:49–3:55For 20 years Lulha has been grazing buffaloes, while, during those same 20 years, one building
  57. 3:55–4:00after another has risen on PR batches homestead.
  58. 4:00–4:03Then how does one receive the true blessing?
  59. 4:03–4:07The true blessing comes only from going on foot.
  60. 4:07–4:12That is why, for 20 years, Lulha has been grazing buffaloes.
  61. 4:12–4:15I went to Baba Dam myself last year.
  62. 4:15–4:19Brother Pruful is the leader of our village Bol Bam group.
  63. 4:19–4:22He walks every year.
  64. 4:22–4:25His father was the leader before him.
  65. 4:25–4:27Brother Bola is a Dach Bam pilgrim.
  66. 4:27–4:32Within three days he brings water from Sultanpur and offers it to Lord Shiva.
  67. 4:32–4:36Brother Pruful takes everyone with him and finds anyone who breaks the rules.
  68. 4:36–4:42Piyar Bacha has grown so fat, how could he possibly walk all that way?
  69. 4:42–4:45Though Brother Pruful is hardly thin himself.
  70. 4:45–4:49So tell me, does a person walk by his own strength?
  71. 4:49–4:52Baba makes him walk.
  72. 4:52–4:55You have a remarkable way of killing the point.
  73. 4:55–5:00You yourself say that, in these 20 years, building after building has risen on P.R.
  74. 5:00–5:05Bhakcha's land, while Lulha has spent 20 years grazing buffaloes, yet you also say that the
  75. 5:05–5:09true blessing comes from going on foot.
  76. 5:09–5:10If P.R.
  77. 5:10–5:14Bhakcha has never walked to Baba damn, why has he built building after building?
  78. 5:14–5:20And if Lulha walks there every year, why has he remained a buffalo herder?
  79. 5:20–5:24I am telling you what I have seen with my own eyes.
  80. 5:24–5:26Anyone can build a house, sir.
  81. 5:26–5:30Lord Bola Baba favours Lulha.
  82. 5:30–5:33How?
  83. 5:33–5:36Lulha fell behind on the road.
  84. 5:36–5:39Brother Pruful was worried it would bring disgrace.
  85. 5:39–5:42He searched every Darren Shaler.
  86. 5:42–5:45How could Lulha have reached the lodging before them?
  87. 5:45–5:48He had been trailing behind.
  88. 5:48–5:51How would they face the village when they returned?
  89. 5:51–5:55But at dawn they found Lulha snoring in a room of the Durham Shailer.
  90. 5:55–6:02When he woke, Lulha told them, there was forest all around me, and I was crying helplessly.
  91. 6:02–6:05Then an old bearded man came and quieted me.
  92. 6:05–6:08He questioned me and placed his hand on my head.
  93. 6:08–6:11I must have fallen asleep.
  94. 6:11–6:15When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying in the Durham Shaler among the people of my
  95. 6:15–6:17village.
  96. 6:17–6:22I have been assigned to wander from forest to forest in search of precisely these people
  97. 6:22–6:24who travel on foot.
  98. 6:24–6:31Speak gently, win over the people who walk, mutilif, lulha, with your sweet words.
  99. 6:31–6:34Make them understand that the government is not the country.
  100. 6:34–6:38They are the country, the foot soldier, the chess pawn.
  101. 6:38–6:41The country is not the king and queen.
  102. 6:41–6:44Habibullah is not the country.
  103. 6:44–6:46Mutilif is the country.
  104. 6:46–6:48Lulha is the country.
  105. 6:48–6:54If I can make them understand that, a chess piece can become a human being again.
  106. 6:54–6:56Where are you from?
  107. 6:56–6:58Not Delhi, surely.
  108. 6:58–7:00No.
  109. 7:00–7:04I come from the borderlands of India.
  110. 7:04–7:09The border with China, Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Myanmar.
  111. 7:09–7:11No.
  112. 7:11–7:16The border with Nepal, the land of Sita.
  113. 7:16–7:19A land of mythical tales and lies.
  114. 7:19–7:21No.
  115. 7:21–7:24It may not be mythical, it may be historical.
  116. 7:24–7:29Some stories may have been distorted, but the history is ancient.
  117. 7:29–7:34those whose own history is not so old find that difficult to digest.
  118. 7:34–7:41Debate, debate. They have received weapons training, and so have you, revolvers, pistols,
  119. 7:41–7:47even Sten guns. You have also been trained in argument, so use that training not only
  120. 7:47–7:53on me, but on them. A terrorist leader has been captured. Without drug money, terrorist
  121. 7:53–7:57operations cannot continue.
  122. 7:57–8:00Habibullah always slips away.
  123. 8:00–8:04Arresting Moudalif will never lead us to the drug money.
  124. 8:04–8:08Nothing was found at Habibullah's house.
  125. 8:08–8:14He must have people inside our ranks, just as we have people inside his.
  126. 8:14–8:16Find out.
  127. 8:16–8:19Question the captured terrorist leader.
  128. 8:19–8:31Time is slipping away, slipping away.
  129. 8:31–8:34How do you obtain information about our operations?
  130. 8:34–8:37Who are the people working with Habibullah?
  131. 8:37–8:40How does the drug money move, and to whom?
  132. 8:40–8:46If Habibullah is Mutalif's commander, then who is Habibullah's commander?
  133. 8:46–8:49The information comes from your own office.
  134. 8:49–8:56Not under any right to information law, your operational information simply reaches us.
  135. 8:56–9:00You have people among us, and we have people among you.
  136. 9:00–9:03The only difference is that your people hide in files.
  137. 9:03–9:05while ours hide in the jungle.
  138. 9:07–9:08That much is obvious.
  139. 9:09–9:10But who is he?
  140. 9:11–9:13Yet you do not carry a weapon.
  141. 9:14–9:16Laudangub M'zoram carried one,
  142. 9:17–9:20while Paresh Barua of Assam never carries one.
  143. 9:21–9:23Your country reached agreement with both.
  144. 9:24–9:27How is an unarmed man less dangerous than an armed one?
  145. 9:28–9:30You are more dangerous to us.
  146. 9:32–9:32Listen.
  147. 9:32–9:38A student from Mizoram was studying engineering in Mizufarpur.
  148. 9:38–9:41He told me that Laldanga was a great leader.
  149. 9:41–9:44At the time, Laldanga was underground.
  150. 9:44–9:47The country considered him a terrorist.
  151. 9:47–9:51But he came forward and reached an agreement with the government.
  152. 9:51–9:54He surrendered all his weapons.
  153. 9:54–9:58Both sides honored the agreement in good faith, and today Mizoram is the only such
  154. 9:58–10:02settlement in the northeast that has succeeded completely.
  155. 10:02–10:06Before his death, Lal Dengue left his state on the path of peace.
  156. 10:06–10:11That engineering student was right, Lal Dengue was a great leader.
  157. 10:11–10:15A great leader does not abandon his people in midstream.
  158. 10:15–10:20Like the captain of a sinking ship, he stays aboard until the final moment.
  159. 10:20–10:25When everyone else has left the ship, he sinks with its mast, he does not flee.
  160. 10:25–10:29If Lal Dengue made an agreement, it was in keeping with the feelings of the people
  161. 10:29–10:31who considered him great.
  162. 10:31–10:36Had he not made peace before his death, perhaps that engineering student could not have remained
  163. 10:36–10:38so proud of him.
  164. 10:38–10:43Even now, whenever he meets me, he says, you see?
  165. 10:43–10:47Did I not tell you, Leldenga is a great leader?
  166. 10:47–10:50I have no desire to become a great leader.
  167. 10:50–10:57Suppose we surrender all our weapons, and then the government betrays us?
  168. 10:57–11:01If Leldenga had thought that way, could peace ever have been possible?
  169. 11:01–11:04And what is the government?
  170. 11:04–11:06Is it what you see on television?
  171. 11:06–11:08No.
  172. 11:08–11:12Many of those people do not even understand who is doing what for the country.
  173. 11:12–11:17Every department is full of patriots, even if they are only 10%, and this country rests
  174. 11:17–11:19upon them.
  175. 11:19–11:23The ministers you see on television, what do they understand?
  176. 11:23–11:28You may change, those ministers may change, but the country will not change, and the government
  177. 11:28–11:30will not change.
  178. 11:30–11:33It will honor the agreement.
  179. 11:33–11:37But first you must accept that bullets do not right the future.
  180. 11:37–11:42You think exactly as we do, but you are on the wrong side.
  181. 11:42–11:44No.
  182. 11:44–11:47You are on the wrong side.
  183. 11:47–11:49You have taken up arms.
  184. 11:49–11:53You sell drugs and make others sell them to buy weapons.
  185. 11:53–11:57How many children's futures have you destroyed?
  186. 11:57–12:00What future are you talking about?
  187. 12:00–12:04Open a factory, and he will become its gatekeeper.
  188. 12:04–12:08Build a road, and he will get a job sweeping it.
  189. 12:08–12:14Your people hunt for unemployed young men, on the seashore, in the jungle, in the desert.
  190. 12:14–12:20Whoever has no work, no employment, you deceive and pull into the drug trade.
  191. 12:20–12:24Utilif will come out of prison after 20 years.
  192. 12:24–12:26That is the employment you gave him.
  193. 12:26–12:31Into the empty bowl of unemployment, you poor gunpowder.
  194. 12:31–12:34You are Makanda, all of you.
  195. 12:34–12:39How long will your government keep him in prison?
  196. 12:39–12:43What do you mean?
  197. 12:43–12:45So you lose your temper too?
  198. 12:45–12:46In your system?
  199. 12:46–12:49The weak are never heard.
  200. 12:49–12:52And yet, you stake your life for that system.
  201. 12:52–12:54What has your system given you?
  202. 12:54–12:59In your system, the people who work for us are never moved out of the city, while you
  203. 12:59–13:02have been posted to the jungle.
  204. 13:02–13:04You have suffered an injustice.
  205. 13:04–13:09And if you cannot stop the injustice done to you, how will you ever deliver justice
  206. 13:09–13:11to us?
  207. 13:11–13:15Even your compassion testifies against you.
  208. 13:15–13:18That is a delusion in your own mind.
  209. 13:18–13:20No injustice has been done to me.
  210. 13:20–13:23I was chosen for this work.
  211. 13:23–13:29If my posting is in the jungle, then the jungle too is part of the country.
  212. 13:29–13:31Your system is exploiting you.
  213. 13:31–13:33Come over to us.
  214. 13:33–13:38Keep your job there, but while you remain there, work with us.
  215. 13:38–13:39Think about it.
  216. 13:39–13:42Take your time.
  217. 13:42–13:44Have you lost your mind?
  218. 13:44–13:47Every day for a month I have been trying to reason with you, and all the while you
  219. 13:47–13:49have been playing a different game.
  220. 13:49–13:52Is this a joke to you?
  221. 13:52–13:57For a month you have been trying to persuade me, and for a month I too have been trying
  222. 13:57–13:59to persuade you.
  223. 13:59–14:04Mutilif has been released, and for that I thank you.
  224. 14:04–14:07Why are you thanking me?
  225. 14:07–14:09We know everything.
  226. 14:09–14:15As a reward for what you did, you will be given a high position in the organization.
  227. 14:15–14:20A few people in my department may work for you out of fear.
  228. 14:20–14:23That has made you overconfident.
  229. 14:23–14:26They can be bought with fear or money.
  230. 14:26–14:31Even then, I cannot trust them to carry out the work they are given.
  231. 14:31–14:33But your heart is with us.
  232. 14:33–14:36Your compassion for Mulev proves it.
  233. 14:36–14:43Therefore, the decision has been taken to bring you into the core group of our organization.
  234. 14:43–14:48Compassion officer is a weapon more dangerous than power.
  235. 14:48–14:52The decision has been taken.
  236. 14:52–14:55The DCI shoun has been taken.
  237. 14:55–14:59I have been speaking to a deranged man then.
  238. 14:59–15:02You two are Makhanda, a government Makhanda.
  239. 15:02–15:07But one with principles, like us, one who has to become Makhanda.
  240. 15:07–15:11The only difference is that you wear a uniform and we live in the jumble.
  241. 15:11–15:25And that is why the decision has been taken.
  242. 15:25–15:28The court has granted Mutilif bail.
  243. 15:28–15:33Mutlif says that terrorism cannot survive without the drug trade, all the money it needs comes
  244. 15:33–15:34from that trade.
  245. 15:34–15:39He says that after leaving prison he wanted to become someone like you, but the police
  246. 15:39–15:43station, the journalists, unemployment in his village, and the stain attached to his name
  247. 15:43–15:45would not allow it.
  248. 15:45–15:50Mutlif says the system must be repaired, otherwise.
  249. 15:50–15:52Then are you the principal player?
  250. 15:52–15:55I thought you had been framed.
  251. 15:55–15:58What difference does it make?
  252. 15:58–16:03What is the difference between a player who was trapped and the principal player?
  253. 16:03–16:09Look closely, in organizations like this, 80% of the people have been trapped.
  254. 16:09–16:14But they have been trapped so deeply that they become more dangerous than the principal
  255. 16:14–16:15players.
  256. 16:15–16:20Once society refuses to believe that a person is innocent, it takes very little time to
  257. 16:20–16:23turn him into a criminal.
  258. 16:23–16:43Now you must do whatever Mutolif tells you.
  259. 16:43–16:47My first journey has proved feudal.
  260. 16:47–16:49Mutolif defeated you.
  261. 16:49–16:52By sparing your life, he defeated you.
  262. 16:52–16:57The defeat of an unarmed soldier, this is a method they are learning.
  263. 16:57–17:02But only by recognizing defeat does the next journey begin.
  264. 17:02–17:04I am beginning to remember something.
  265. 17:04–17:10Mutilif was speaking to the interpreter, and the interpreter was speaking to me.
  266. 17:10–17:15It seemed as though Mutilif was saying that this journey had not been wasted, since I write
  267. 17:15–17:19stories, perhaps this journey had given me the plot of a story.
  268. 17:19–17:24It was as though Mutilif was saying that he would be the protagonist of that story.
  269. 17:24–17:28But becoming the protagonist and surviving are two different things.
  270. 17:28–17:32If I write the story, I will also write that sometimes a packet of food gives testimony
  271. 17:32–17:34greater than a court can.

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विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। विचार-विमर्शक रेक। packet of food. He cannot believe that amid all these accusations someone could also give him food. He did. This is your dinner. They will not feed you at the jail tonight, that is why. You will be held in Tihar jail in Delhi. There is a Tamil Nadu police unit there. It was called in after Charles Chowbhraj escaped from prison on the theory that because they did not understand the local language, they would be unable to strike deals with any prisoner. But within two months, every one of them had learnt the local language. Still, you will be able to talk to them. The language of the stomach is understood before any other. In Tihar, Newteliff may be able to exchange a few words with them. He may even find a way to engage a lawyer for himself. He is asking whether you gave it to him. My lord. This Mütlif is the real criminal. His story is a lie. Playing cricket in broad daylight on the seashore is proof of his idleness. Mütlif says he was unemployed, and that is why he played cricket during the day. Then his story goes on. Hababullah meets him and asks him, are you unemployed? He gives him a job, carrying a pressure cooker in a bag, packed with spices. This man transported narcotic powder hidden between the pressure cooker's double walls, flying back and forth, and earning 10,000 rupees for every trip without lifting a finger. And now he claims that he knew nothing, that he had no idea what he was carrying inside that pressure cooker. The ignorance bred by poverty is also part of the crime, my lord. And then, of course, the principal criminal is Habibullah. Counsel, Mutilif has not engaged any lawyer. He is not the principal offender. Find a Tamil lawyer and ask them to secure his bail at the next bail hearing. If justice cannot understand a language, it ceases to be justice and becomes mere procedure. I am Tamil myself. I have handled many cases like this, especially for Tamil people who become trapped in Delhi because of a language crisis. I am the public prosecutor, so I cannot argue on his behalf. But my assistant lawyer is always hanging around my office. He will certainly help him. What have you got yourself entangled in? Mutelef is not a criminal at all. A narcotics mafia used him and trapped him. Habibila. Acting on a tip, we raided his house in Chennai, but found nothing. The drugs were recovered from Mutilif, yes. But he is only a chess piece, a foot soldier. Upon. Where is the hand that moves the piece? A lame man from my village, Lulha, walks to Baba Dam every year. Piya Bacha, from the same village, flies there every year. Both have been making that pilgrimage continuously for twenty years. For 20 years Lulha has been grazing buffaloes, while, during those same 20 years, one building after another has risen on PR batches homestead. Then how does one receive the true blessing? The true blessing comes only from going on foot. That is why, for 20 years, Lulha has been grazing buffaloes. I went to Baba Dam myself last year. Brother Pruful is the leader of our village Bol Bam group. He walks every year. His father was the leader before him. Brother Bola is a Dach Bam pilgrim. Within three days he brings water from Sultanpur and offers it to Lord Shiva. Brother Pruful takes everyone with him and finds anyone who breaks the rules. Piyar Bacha has grown so fat, how could he possibly walk all that way? Though Brother Pruful is hardly thin himself. So tell me, does a person walk by his own strength? Baba makes him walk. You have a remarkable way of killing the point. You yourself say that, in these 20 years, building after building has risen on P.R. Bhakcha's land, while Lulha has spent 20 years grazing buffaloes, yet you also say that the true blessing comes from going on foot. If P.R. Bhakcha has never walked to Baba damn, why has he built building after building? And if Lulha walks there every year, why has he remained a buffalo herder? I am telling you what I have seen with my own eyes. Anyone can build a house, sir. Lord Bola Baba favours Lulha. How? Lulha fell behind on the road. Brother Pruful was worried it would bring disgrace. He searched every Darren Shaler. How could Lulha have reached the lodging before them? He had been trailing behind. How would they face the village when they returned? But at dawn they found Lulha snoring in a room of the Durham Shailer. When he woke, Lulha told them, there was forest all around me, and I was crying helplessly. Then an old bearded man came and quieted me. He questioned me and placed his hand on my head. I must have fallen asleep. When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying in the Durham Shaler among the people of my village. I have been assigned to wander from forest to forest in search of precisely these people who travel on foot. Speak gently, win over the people who walk, mutilif, lulha, with your sweet words. Make them understand that the government is not the country. They are the country, the foot soldier, the chess pawn. The country is not the king and queen. Habibullah is not the country. Mutilif is the country. Lulha is the country. If I can make them understand that, a chess piece can become a human being again. Where are you from? Not Delhi, surely. No. I come from the borderlands of India. The border with China, Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Myanmar. No. The border with Nepal, the land of Sita. A land of mythical tales and lies. No. It may not be mythical, it may be historical. Some stories may have been distorted, but the history is ancient. those whose own history is not so old find that difficult to digest. Debate, debate. They have received weapons training, and so have you, revolvers, pistols, even Sten guns. You have also been trained in argument, so use that training not only on me, but on them. A terrorist leader has been captured. Without drug money, terrorist operations cannot continue. Habibullah always slips away. Arresting Moudalif will never lead us to the drug money. Nothing was found at Habibullah's house. He must have people inside our ranks, just as we have people inside his. Find out. Question the captured terrorist leader. Time is slipping away, slipping away. How do you obtain information about our operations? Who are the people working with Habibullah? How does the drug money move, and to whom? If Habibullah is Mutalif's commander, then who is Habibullah's commander? The information comes from your own office. Not under any right to information law, your operational information simply reaches us. You have people among us, and we have people among you. The only difference is that your people hide in files. while ours hide in the jungle. That much is obvious. But who is he? Yet you do not carry a weapon. Laudangub M'zoram carried one, while Paresh Barua of Assam never carries one. Your country reached agreement with both. How is an unarmed man less dangerous than an armed one? You are more dangerous to us. Listen. A student from Mizoram was studying engineering in Mizufarpur. He told me that Laldanga was a great leader. At the time, Laldanga was underground. The country considered him a terrorist. But he came forward and reached an agreement with the government. He surrendered all his weapons. Both sides honored the agreement in good faith, and today Mizoram is the only such settlement in the northeast that has succeeded completely. Before his death, Lal Dengue left his state on the path of peace. That engineering student was right, Lal Dengue was a great leader. A great leader does not abandon his people in midstream. Like the captain of a sinking ship, he stays aboard until the final moment. When everyone else has left the ship, he sinks with its mast, he does not flee. If Lal Dengue made an agreement, it was in keeping with the feelings of the people who considered him great. Had he not made peace before his death, perhaps that engineering student could not have remained so proud of him. Even now, whenever he meets me, he says, you see? Did I not tell you, Leldenga is a great leader? I have no desire to become a great leader. Suppose we surrender all our weapons, and then the government betrays us? If Leldenga had thought that way, could peace ever have been possible? And what is the government? Is it what you see on television? No. Many of those people do not even understand who is doing what for the country. Every department is full of patriots, even if they are only 10%, and this country rests upon them. The ministers you see on television, what do they understand? You may change, those ministers may change, but the country will not change, and the government will not change. It will honor the agreement. But first you must accept that bullets do not right the future. You think exactly as we do, but you are on the wrong side. No. You are on the wrong side. You have taken up arms. You sell drugs and make others sell them to buy weapons. How many children's futures have you destroyed? What future are you talking about? Open a factory, and he will become its gatekeeper. Build a road, and he will get a job sweeping it. Your people hunt for unemployed young men, on the seashore, in the jungle, in the desert. Whoever has no work, no employment, you deceive and pull into the drug trade. Utilif will come out of prison after 20 years. That is the employment you gave him. Into the empty bowl of unemployment, you poor gunpowder. You are Makanda, all of you. How long will your government keep him in prison? What do you mean? So you lose your temper too? In your system? The weak are never heard. And yet, you stake your life for that system. What has your system given you? In your system, the people who work for us are never moved out of the city, while you have been posted to the jungle. You have suffered an injustice. And if you cannot stop the injustice done to you, how will you ever deliver justice to us? Even your compassion testifies against you. That is a delusion in your own mind. No injustice has been done to me. I was chosen for this work. If my posting is in the jungle, then the jungle too is part of the country. Your system is exploiting you. Come over to us. Keep your job there, but while you remain there, work with us. Think about it. Take your time. Have you lost your mind? Every day for a month I have been trying to reason with you, and all the while you have been playing a different game. Is this a joke to you? For a month you have been trying to persuade me, and for a month I too have been trying to persuade you. Mutilif has been released, and for that I thank you. Why are you thanking me? We know everything. As a reward for what you did, you will be given a high position in the organization. A few people in my department may work for you out of fear. That has made you overconfident. They can be bought with fear or money. Even then, I cannot trust them to carry out the work they are given. But your heart is with us. Your compassion for Mulev proves it. Therefore, the decision has been taken to bring you into the core group of our organization. Compassion officer is a weapon more dangerous than power. The decision has been taken. The DCI shoun has been taken. I have been speaking to a deranged man then. You two are Makhanda, a government Makhanda. But one with principles, like us, one who has to become Makhanda. The only difference is that you wear a uniform and we live in the jumble. And that is why the decision has been taken. The court has granted Mutilif bail. Mutlif says that terrorism cannot survive without the drug trade, all the money it needs comes from that trade. He says that after leaving prison he wanted to become someone like you, but the police station, the journalists, unemployment in his village, and the stain attached to his name would not allow it. Mutlif says the system must be repaired, otherwise. Then are you the principal player? I thought you had been framed. What difference does it make? What is the difference between a player who was trapped and the principal player? Look closely, in organizations like this, 80% of the people have been trapped. But they have been trapped so deeply that they become more dangerous than the principal players. Once society refuses to believe that a person is innocent, it takes very little time to turn him into a criminal. Now you must do whatever Mutolif tells you. My first journey has proved feudal. Mutolif defeated you. By sparing your life, he defeated you. The defeat of an unarmed soldier, this is a method they are learning. But only by recognizing defeat does the next journey begin. I am beginning to remember something. Mutilif was speaking to the interpreter, and the interpreter was speaking to me. It seemed as though Mutilif was saying that this journey had not been wasted, since I write stories, perhaps this journey had given me the plot of a story. It was as though Mutilif was saying that he would be the protagonist of that story. But becoming the protagonist and surviving are two different things. If I write the story, I will also write that sometimes a packet of food gives testimony greater than a court can.

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