Chilling fear grips the country from time to time whether it is Bombay under the gun of Raj Thakrey, populist politicians  or terrorists elsewhere.  Non-Tamils in DMK ruled Tamilnad in  the south have been forced to feel like unwanted residents by the Dravidian parties. DMK  and other Dravidian parties are  not satisfied just imposing Tamil on Non-Tamils but  they pursued removing the programs of other languages from the universities in Tamilnadu with fervor. Self-styled protectors of nativity in Maharashtra spread Marathi hysteria in Bombay targeting different communities at different times,   in seventies they targeted South Indians and during ninties Muslims and today North Indians.  Ethnic cleansing of Pandits in  the Valley of Kashmir went unabated by the same people who complain the excesses of Indian Army and violation of human rights in Kashmir. It seems over the last few decades in post Mahatma’s India, lot of Indians   have become almost voiceless since the  populist parties and extremists   systematically infested most of the country from Tamilnadu to Kashmir and Gujarat to Assam.  Where is Supreme Court?  and where is central government machinery to protect the ordinary Indian from these thugs and defend the constitution and people’s right to live and work as they choose to. We often complain of discriminaton of Indian in other countries but then I wonder why we do not complain the discrimation of Indians in India. Yes India.

         A  low-intensity conflict of ULFA  has terrorized  people of majority of Assam, and silenced them. They are afraid of expressing their opinion as usually it happens when extremists pervade all walks of life even if they are microscopic minority. Confusion, uncertainty, insecurity and frustration have penetrated the very fabric of society. Even during the hay days of terrorism in Punjab, majority did not have stomach to Bhindrawala’s extreme ideology, but they remained silent for the fear of terror. The pattern of fear is identical throughout the  terrorist infested areas of the world. Those comprising the common population are first de-linked from one another by the militants who ban  all elections and all sources of information like TV, the internet and newspapers. Then a complex web of mystery is created, one which takes a heavy toll on the communicative ability of the local population. Expression gets manipulated and become meaningless.In high-intensity conflict zones of militant, political and  militaristic violence, one finds two factors that contribute to fear. Firstly, fear is collective. Secondly, it remains a low road for a very long time unlike in instances where individuals experience fear due to personal reasons when the ‘low road’ fear converts into ‘high road’ fear very quickly. The religious an ethnic militancy that has penetrated the areas East of Suez   over the last several decades has been using the idea of ‘martyrdom’ ‘injustice to locals’  as a tool to produce individuals who create fear as a measure of populism ..The concept works both ways. It gives the leader  the power to annihilate his own fear while at the same time it creates unimaginable fear in the minds of his victims. Isolation and de-linking are the tactics used in both cases. Farhad Khosrokhavar, a French scholar, in his book Suicide Bombers: Allah’s New Martyrs says that the two-way process of controlling and perpetrating fear is closely linked to the modern concept of ‘martyrdom’ coined by the Al Qaeda and its affiliates (the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan) and the party of Raj Thakray comes very close to Taliban and Al Qaida.

        Meanings become meaningless, thought process is clounded and when facts are clouded with perceptions, we tend to realize perceptions are facts.It is politicised, secularised and takes on contemporary meanings… Hence the fear of death and the fear of succumbing to that fear, which has to be overcome through the spiritual transcendence of life, by taking one’s fate into one’s own hands is an irreversible act.” The ‘ Protectors of Marathi manus’ , as they call themselves, take the path of death and destruction  to give evidence of their fearlessness which in turn perpetrates fear in the victims who are ‘the enemies (both direct and indirect) of the holy religion or their beloved state’Attacks are supplemented with gruesome killings and large-scale destruction. The common people are trapped between the  populist’s  isolationist tactics and  destruction. The resultant wave of fear and terror that one has been observing in Kashmir, Assam and Naxalite infested areas   contain all the significant elements of ‘intensity, novelty, hereditary natural reflexes and reasons hidden in human social interaction’.But the most important factor in these circumstances is the creation of ‘loneliness’. A whole population is isolated from the world for the purpose of moulding socio-political and socio-cultural cross-currents into a particular worldview.

            The socio-cultural environment is consequently devoid of ‘secularism, universalistic ideas of human rights and freedom of belief’. The space for interaction shrinks to the point where the majority of the people are unable to express genuine opinions. We observed the  Hindu cultural identities on the one hand  in Jammu and Kashmir and the elimination of cultural spaces for interaction on the other as it happened in Bengal under communists.This consequently breaks down all traditional spaces of expression and communication making fear more pervasive, long-term and self-perpetuating. The dissolution of ethno- religious identities seems to have been the most traumatic factor that pushes the individuals towards  subhuman level at the end.  The resultant passivity of individuals trapped between militancy and militarism is sometimes seen as complicity by external observers as Sikhs were perceived by Hindus during the hey days of Bhindrawala eventhough inaccurately , though all evidence proves the case to be otherwise