THE GRAND DESIGN: Five Striking Similarities between Delhi and West Bengal Riots

Delhi shows India's new direction. An election defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party which tried its best polarise the electorate. It gives two important lessions, first, service delivery pays and second, polarisation is not always secures electoral dividend. However, the North East Delhi riot which began in 23rd February is indicative to the heavy price that people need to pay in name of politics.  Its extremely difficult to write or to know the reality through the news reports in India. More so, because the one sided accentuation of the news channels. News doesn't display what is happening but display perspectives and the public sphere can then decide on which one to follow to form their own opinions and participate in a debate. It happens to be the worst kind of a situation where no matter how hard you try, its extremely difficult to stand on your ground based on the information you are getting. I have been relying on a particular news channel NDTV partly because it poses critical questions without getting emotional about it and partly because it still delivers a lot of contents.

However, a relatively more powerful tool which I use is ethnography. Along with my like minded friends at AAMRA ek Sachetan Prayas Forum, I am conducting ethnographic research on the issues such as political violence, grassroots politics for over a decade now. However, his experience is relatively confined mostly to my home state of West Bengal. Because I do not have the fund or am not allowed to go on long vacation for conducting fieldwork in other parts of the country. While, I was closely following the communal riots in my own state through ethnography, I am taking a close look at Delhi incident through news channels mostly by NDTV and through a particular news paper The telegraph.

My reading and field experience reveals a striking similarity in "Manufacturing the polarisation" in West Bengal and also recently in Delhi

Let us see the design of such a manufacture.

A. The Construction of Others:

It is seen that there are different 'successful' mechanisms to construct the "us/them" boundary, or rejuvenate such boundary principals. It is partly based the primordial identity sentiments stemmed from 'different' cultural practices and partition memory and party based on newly founded hoaxes like Hindurashtra, Ghusbethiya (Infiltrators), Job eaters, illegitimate occupants (person who is not supposed to live here, because of some weird reason ranging from having skull-cap to participating in a particular rallies). Because, a section of public intellectuals have actually supported the cause of such 'others' they are also branded as others in innovative connotations like 'urban naxal', 'anti-nationals.'   

Once such connotation/category is widely popularised it becomes a portable tool to identify a wide section of the populace to be confronted with. So, now you have a handy device to construct the 'other' through the degree or extent of their otherness and then based on the available resources you can decide on what can be done on the other. Such actions range from online bullying to murder (remember Gauri Lankesh), from lynching to riot. 

Accordingly, in order to operationalise the grand scheme you need resources. 

B. The Resources:

Although, there is an attempt in each of the riots that has taken place in West Bengal to project them as a spontaneous outcome of the hatred (Dhulagarh), religious procession (Asansol, Naihati-Hajinagar), or viral facebook post (Baduria-Basirhat), in each of the interveiws people commonly expressed that there were 'outsiders' and there were 'insiders' explaining the 'geography' to them. The outsiders are the organised forces that successfully conduct the riots both in Bengal and now as it appears from several direct responses by the citizens, in Delhi as well. See the Prime-Time news cover by Ravish Kumar on 27.02.2020 on Delhi riot. Especially at the section where his team finds out the people who saved each others and common people who mentioned the presence of the outsiders. 

The contention becomes even clearer as one gets to know that country-made guns and other weapons entered Delhi from Western Uttar Pradesh (https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/delhi-violence-countrymade-guns-from-west-up-weapons-of-all-shapes-used-in-riots/story-uVOk0GaAkHZCj7UHox8C3M.html)

Although I have limited understanding of the nature of these goons and their mode of operation, I have however interviewed a section of goons like this during the end of Left Politics in West Bengal, when there were armed mercenaries (popularly Harmad) were posted in different villages in the forested districts of West Bengal. These are a section of uneducated, unemployable, notorious youths. Who are usually ready to do anything in exchange of money, liquor and women. You have them they are yours. I failed to see any ideological orientation of these goons, but yes they had a hatred towards the Maoists. That partly because they were supposed to fight them and partly because they were rejected by the villagers many of whom actually had sympathies towards the Maoists. 

There is a rough similarities between the goons that I had encountered in my fieldwork about ten years ago and now. They are young, notorious and has little care for social order or any sort of ethical principles. 

Who are they? 

Trust me, they are not alien from a different planet. They are living among us. You might have encountered one of them today while crossing the road or buying vegetable from the local shop. You might have seen him in the underconstructed apparent in your neighbourhood. 

They are specialists, specialised in rootlessness, uselessness and lack of baggages (familial, local or ideological).

C. Use of Resources:

What happens when you can connect the otherness with the resources to be used in annihilation? Delhi is a perfect example of such a connect. Its an organised move towards such annihilation. The goons we are watching on television screen, forwarded through our whatsapp and facebook videos are the outcome of what happens when such a connection is established. Shaheen bagh protest model which was a kindle to an otherwise darkness engulfed country has been systematically targeted by the administrative mechanisms, in different ways. First, during the Delhi election Shaheen Bagh protest has been shown as the reason for choking of Delhi traffic. Common people ranging from Auto drivers to workers made to feel disgusted as the popular narrative of sad traffic condition due to the protest was floated. Meanwhile reports (Click here) have come that there are alternative roads which could help traffic go smoothly but not allowed to be opened. The image below is an example.

If Shaheen Bagh protest was a positive hope for many, the regressive righ wingers easily projected it to be a threat towards Hindu majority and that Muslims are going high-handed. Following is a list of four such hatespeeches on record which the Delhi High Court played and ordered FIR against all such hatespeeches been delivered.

Even after a defeat in the Delhi Assembly, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continued to spill the hate mongering, inspiring its followers to become more aggressive.

Such aggressive hatespeeches do have consequences. In each of the riots that has happened in West Bengal, there is a significant presence of hatespeech delivered by people occupying the positions of power. In Baduria-Basirhat, there were instances of hatespeech delivery by locally influencial leaders. People alleged a cross border influence, as they have heard that there were instances of hatespeech delivered from Mosques located on the other side of the river Ichhamati, however, during the riot there were instances of hatespeech. Similarly, in Rejinagar, Murshidabad the attack on Pir-panths by the Sharia panths was organised and channelised by the local Mosques through hatespeech. Apart from that, the rallies, filled with competing politico-communal forces are always mutually exclusive and echoed with hatespeech that often resulted in the violence, like what has happened in Asansol-Ranigunj and the dynamics of Ram Navami celebration.

d. The Geography of violence:   

There is a geographic feature of the Delhi violence which is roughly parallel to what happened in many places in West Bengal in recent past. The following image (by National Herald) clearly reflects the violence has a connection with the borders of the Uttar Pradesh and are the pockets where 'incidentally' BJP has the majority.

When I was conducting fieldwork on the communal violence in West Bengal a geographical feature was notable in several cases. For example in Naihati-Hajinagar which was one local teachers mentioned "mini-India" because of its population dynamics. With the Jute-mill concentration these are the places where people all over the India has immigrated and eventually settled down. There is a high concentration of so called 'hindi belt' population as well. Same is the case with Kankinara-Bhatpara where the politico-religious conflict continued for months before, during and after the Parliamentary election. Once one reaches there one can easily see the compressed co-existence of Hindu-Muslim living with extremely inhuman condition. The community toilet doesnt have privacy and people are supposed to excrete openly in a confined place one of which once blasted killing three. The community bathing system will remind you of a concentration camp and filthy drainage will not let you have your meal properly. Yet, instead of raising voices against such exploitation which is continuing since the British period they keep on fighting an impossible Hindu-Muslim battle. The communal upsurge in Delhi has happened in places which roughly correspond to the geography in Bengal where construction of identity fault line is relatively easier.

Hence, in such places in Bengal has seen a sudden upsurge in 'invented traditions' - performances which were never part of wide popular tradition in Bengal. The examples include Ganga Aarati in smaller scales and Ram Navami rallies in larger scale. These, along with numerous temple based organisations have formed a living display of political religion and brought back the identity issues in public discourse. Such pockets as Naihati-Hajinagar, Chandannagore, Dhulagarh, Baduria-Basirhat can reflect on the manufacturing polarisaiton in pockets of North-East Delhi.   

e. Administrative Delay:

In each of the cases in West Bengal, there was a great absence of administrative intervention. In each of the cases in West Bengal police reached at least two to three hours after the riot has started and then it took days for them to contend the situation. In some cases like Baduria-Basirhat the violence continued for months because it became unpredictable for the administration to even sense where the new violence might erupt. Meanwhile, shops are looted, and set ablaze, people are injured and killed. Delhi has shown worse form of administrative inaction. The Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal demanded army intervention (click here) to contend the situation which only reflects the helplessness of the police administration in contending the situation.

In each of the cases in West Bengal wherever the riot expanded, it could expand primarily because of the delayed response from the administration. AAMRA in several cases has requested to interview the local police in order to know their response, but were always rejected by them. 

The ray of hope in otherwise gloomy situation is in Ravish Kumar's report which mentions several instances of communal harmony from within the residential colonies, which reinforces the designed nature of violence which shook the entire nation of a terror that has all probabilities to be unfolded at large scale. 

Cover Picture Credit: https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/delhi-riots-just-10km-from-pmo-home-ministry-jafrabad-maujpur-burns-what-does-it-mean-1649911-2020-02-26

Silent margins and a confusing nightscape

The margins strike back... margins strike back when there is nowhere to go! Kaleidoscope on his return from the far south, beyond the city of Kolkata in the middle of the night felt it melting down everything and reshaping the hierarchical cityscape! The hierarchy within which Kaleidoscope has engraved his everydayness.

It was a very long day for the driver who was busy in transporting people to places "on government duty" finally to end up in the southern most part of the district to pick up Kaleidoscope and drop him to the middle of another district. Meanwhile he had to negotiate between the unruly traffic, truck 'lines' near the port, dusty warehouses. He didnt say a word because he was not supposed to. It was late, as late as the dogs in the alleyways are tired, alleyways are empty and one can finally pick up some speed inside the city streets.

Finally near one of the 'ugliest' addition to his city the large plastic casted "Hanuman" he stopped. He had to, otherwise the last chance to pick up his dinner will be gone!

"Why didnt you say earlier? you could have picked it up and had it while we were at work! Its too late!" Said Kaleidoscope.

A smile was enough for him to understand his service condition - "duty first." As every boss travelling by these cars knows, its often an unequal distribution of choices, that makes the people from higher echelons to exercise more control how they live. Not only what they have in dinner but also when they have the dinner!

Kaleidoscope was watching the hanuman statue from the distance, from inside the car through the dusty windscreen. When he experimented with his eyes to make it nearly shut he could see the night was already engulfing every boundaries. Otherwise, why on earth that statue gets installed on the road divider to accomodate the unthinkable! Otherwise, why would the driver finally say "I need to have my dinner now!" with a silent "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

Kaleidoscope wonders the middle of the nightscape through his half closed eyes should have been the real and noting down the time of arrival and kilometers before finally saying a polite good night is just kitsch, ugly hyperreal kitsch, uglier than the Hanuman statue in the middle of nowhere!  

Ideal Prototypes and a Loss of Innocence

Kaleidoscope had this flashback moment when a familiar voice called his childhood name on his way to the nearby park with his son! Who was it calling? Thought Kaleidoscope. A smiling unfamiliar face appeared from a machine van (popularly called the vano) - a not too old addition to the contaminated diesel run good carrying vehicle which is infamous for its unregulated movement and pollution causing behaviour. Such a machine van is most frequently seen in the rural counterpart of the state in which Kaleido lives. He had to travel on them while he was on fieldtrips or in his former work place in Haldia.

Who was it? The smile seemed to be known, and the bright eyes are familiar too, but what happened to his cheek - its all grown beard! Oh! the person smiled, you cant recognise me because of this? He was pointing towards the salt-and-pepper hairs that grew on his chin and lower cheeks! Kaleidoscope could readily recognise the person - ah! Bablu Kaku na! - isnt it Bablu uncle? He smiled!

Yes, its me! and I have a different look... and a different occupation too!

Yes, I remember Bablu Kaku, we used to have long conversations during his afternoon work sessions as a helper to the Masonry work when my father was trying to build a house bit by bit! Bablu kaku was a clean shaved gentleman. He used to talk to the then 11 year old Kaleidoscope about their childhood days. It was not much different from the one Kaleidoscope was experienceing, so instead of being amazed or mesmerised, Kaleidoscope used to learn practical skills of climbing trees, or eating particular form of wild berries without being affected by its sour juice! Bablu kaku was Bablu Kaku not a Muslim Bablu kaku or a Hindu Bablu kaku! Except for the

But with an ideal Muslim looking beard, Kaleidoscope could readily see Bablu kaku looks no longer the Bablu kaku he knew for years, or the image of the person that was stored inside his mind for a considerable period of time!

So what happened to Bablu Kaku?
Kaleidoscope didn't ask! He is no longer a 11 year old kid who could promptly ask things that comes to his mind! He needs to be cautious about asking things without hurting! Or perhaps without grabbing attention of the public sphere which surrounds Kaleidoscope! When he could not ask anyting at all, Bablu Kaku could read his mind! With his penetrating eyes, he mentioned,

I had to grow beard, you know its us - the Muslims! I have to look like one!

Kaleidoscope could see the active construction of Ideal prototypes of Sacchha Mussalman, a counterpart of what he sees everyday in his country in the name of Hinduism - the Hinduttva! 

Bablu kaku left the place carrying his characteristics smile and the bright eyes which has not changed with his looks, thought Kaleidoscope!

The practice of such ideal prototype constructions as Kaleidoscope has been exploring at different places in West Bengal (roughly parallel to what is happening in his rest of the country) is a known fact to Kaleidoscope. However, seeing his childhood memories altered radically is a completely different experience. No matter how short lived the meeting has been, no matter how hopeful and happy Kaleidoscope is to see the smile and eyes remain the same - Kaleidoscope knew for sure, his world is changing, perhaps irrevocably!

(see also Manufacturing polarisation in contemporary India, in International Journal of Conflict and Violence)

Knowledge Gap and politics of new labelling in India

Kaleidoscope is loosing its track as his country is giving him one blow after another, mostly below the belt. He is like many of his fellow citizens is bending lower so as to touch the ground to absorb such blows. Everytime he is trying to stand on his ground another blow from the most unexpected corner of the country comes.

Kaleidoscope is seeing new polarisation, separation and terminologies. It's the discourse taking shape of an euphoria of madness. Kaleidoscope has seen the newer constructions of the Minorities, Dalits, seculars, liberals, leftists, urban naxals as the facets to be isolated first and then eliminated. 

A complete disregard for the past, for the diversity and a rising 'might is right' policy and political practice have given rise to newer spheres of organised violence. Needless to mention the nature of execution, it's safe to assume it has successfully affected everyone around the corner. 

This everyone includes even the perpetrators too! 

The categories

For the students, it's facing a battleground with uneven weapons resulting in mass hysteria. To say pen is mightier than the sword means nothing unless your writing room is secured. 

For the Muslims it's a series of terrorization first by repeated incidents of lynching followed by the Babri verdict and then the fear of Citizenship Amendment Act. The silence from the statesmen in Lynching issues, the indifference of the administrative machinery and increasing marginalisation of the opposition voices have convinced a section of the population about the indifference of the Country at large.

For the liberal intellectuals, the attack on university campuses, arrests of several respected academics for their dissent and killing of well respected public intellectuals is the new India. Here, one can easily get a tag ranging from Urban Naxal to Tukde Tukde gang just by expression a dissent. 

What about the organised goons? And the brainwashed youth, including a section of the students? They too are becoming the new India, where they are taught not to tolerate anything other than what they are told through their organisations. The identity frenzy, the ready to beat up, the complete disjunctioned bundle of goons are graduating without any clue of the world, dreaming of a Nazi regime without knowing anything about it. They are short sighted like their leaders, and either cannot see the darkness coming to engulf them or are completely visionless to live for the moment as most of the capitalistic brands wants to build the late capital subjectivities. 

The knowledge production and consumption gap - 

One of the major factors that provided the ideological backup to the construction of newer labelling everyday is the gap between knowledge production and consumption. For example, Kaleidoscope belongs to the knowledge production Enterprise and strives every moment to produce something new, something different from what was already known. He is part of a community which is too busy to look at anything else but to work out something new and then sturggle to publish them in academic journals of high repute!

They are busy because it gives them the feel that being in academia is worth a life. These journals never pay back to the authors, but charges a heavy amount to it's consumers. Clearly, one needs to be part of an academic institution which has the subscription to even get a glimpse of what is going on around the world. Nearly everyone doesn't have the luxury. Meanwhile, the domains of post-truth has made the knowledge product unfounded and extremely shaky. The yellow journalism along with the Information Technology Cell belonging to most conspicuous violence promoting party have rapidly filled up the gap between knowledge production and consumption! 

The complex hegemonistic sphere has grown with a virtually free space for constructing a depthless present, an absent trace of hyper real. A range of items including the chest size of Mr. Modi to Tukde Tukde gang are real, perhaps more real than the blood oozing out from JNU president's stitches or the brutal lynching of the Muslims, being killed with an administrative aid!  

The collapse of intellectuals from public discourse in West Bengal

There is no end to Kaleidoscopic wonder to see the complete vacuum of what used to be his cultured, civilised, educated, enlightened publics which supposedly elected a 'different' regime for 34 long years. CPIM led Left Front used to have this hallmark of politics with a difference than the rest of the country. The white dhoti-fatua clad Bengali communists reading and spreading the idea of an alternative world through smaller reforms forming an oasis in the midst of end of Nehruvian model of governance.

The fall of enlightened sphere
So much to the "subalternisation" of politics as some of the worshipped scholars have romanticised in past West Bengal has shown a new form of politics including the populist stand. Kaleidoscope was of the hope that cultured, civilised, educated, enlightened have remained. No matter how elitist it might sound it was indeed a trust on the so called intellectual elites. First, the media with its 24X7 commitment brought a new dynamics to the whole genere of how Kaleidoscope sees his world through the television! While he began to discard his habit of watching the televions news channels the smartphone brought a bogus timeline. Kaleidoscope like many others is hooked to consume trashes everyday which ranges from bogus pornographic contents to post truth hoax circulated most exclusively through the new agencies. Supposedly to attract people's attention. Second, Kaleidoscope has seen the so called public intellectuals getting divided. Even if one takes Gramscian approach, the supposedly trained left leaning intellectuals changed their camps. One perceived reasons left being not left any more, and more nuanced and later surfaced reasons include the fact that there were perks and benefits in their partisan selves. The organic intellectual stuff is near impossible to see in the state even after three decade of left rule. A few sparks of the people taking stands according to the perceived justice (e.g. kaushik sen, Aparna Send) is too low to have a voice getting reflected to form an opinion that can be called as a public opinion. Third, and a dangerous development is the bunch of apparently highly educated, insensitive and under read students and supposed scholars who might rapidly fill the fututre intellectual sphere. They are in sync with the rise of new generation of intellectuals promoted most exclusively by the television media. These people find a comfort zone to grow their opinions in every matters like an artificial bacterial culture matrix.  

The rise of the viral sphere

The insensitive, history blind, over rated intellegentia uses the videogame logic to form the public opinion and manages to post online. As they are in sync with the general perception of the wider public sphere and often gets aid from different organised ITcells, they generally attract more likes and shares. If the sensitive few manages to Lodge a protest comment the debates break and list of comments reinforces the importance of the post even further- making it "viral" online. The public media algorithms picks them up and continuously show in people's timeline and forms a skewed distribution of contents not based on quality but on quantity. As Chaplin once said public as headless monster, the headlessness grows like gangrene in virtual space. 

The disappearing intellectuals from the public discourse 

In 2011 Ms Mamata Banerjee had to bring together people belonging to the so called intellectual classes. She brought film makers, actors, theatre personnel, painters and potets to throw back an important message to the public sphere that the paribartan - the political change was necessary and inevitable. In 2019 allegedly the goons from BJP rallies broken down the bust of Vidyasagar in the Vidyasagar statue while they were moving through the heart of the intellectual space of the state (one can even say the heart of the country) the college Street. The largest conglomeration of books, rather a relatively smaller institute which has brought a number of Nobel prizes. It symbolically puts an end to the role of public intellectuals in political discourse and BJP could dream of assuming political power without having any intellectual connect in the state. They have shown sceptical, yet prominent symptoms of actually managing to doing it. 

Photograph- Debasmita

Canopy for your everyday living

How about looking to the world through canopies? Kaleidoscope laughs silently, it's only possible once in a while when he gets to travel to places where there are trees. It's nearly impossible for an urban dweller to avail such a luxury to see through the canopies. 

It can only be the distant dream of an early retirement that Kaleidoscope used to plan with his much loved supervisor. There will be books, coffee, good alcohol and canopies, happy ending of a life. His supervisor, by the way has successfully perked himself in the institute campus and then got a place to stay nearby too to accommodate his family. He is now the proud owner of seven lakes and numerous trees and a palacial quarter. That calls for a quality of life Kaleido, Kaleidoscope often thinks. But then comes the responsibilities in the office that allows barely a moment to even look at the lakes and trees. 

What could be the alternative? Kaleidoscope kept thinking. Meanwhile his employee declared a 65 year for retirement age... It won't let Kaleidoscope go easily, he thought. What is left in a life if the work life ends in 65... That too long... Injustice may be. Kaleidoscope thought, where is the justice? Nowhere may be. 

Here comes the solution, Kaleidoscope planted trees that can outgrow his window and encroaches his balcony. Much loved canopy view now comes with flowers. 

...and it looks something like this.

Detention camp museums: The future of the present

Kaleidoscope in 2007 had the opportunity to stay inside a Jail in Orissa for the whole day. Yes, inside the jail with the inmates talking on the most forbidden issue of his country - sex, that too Men having Sex with Men (MSM). He visited cells, their kitchen, their garden and never failed to witness the 'end of the world' not very far! The world there had a wall, a brick coloured one which almost touched the sky.

It was one of the most unique experiences he thought even a few years back - who having the life course of Kaleidoscope can even imagine being inside of a Jail.

The paragraph above, can be the prelude of a book written in a detention camp that are being set up in tax payers (both direct and indirect) money at different corners of Kaleidoscope's country.

People interfaced - an anecdote:

There is this medicine shop owned by a family originally belonging to the East Bengal (now Bangladesh) where Kaleidoscope often makes a visit. Kaleidoscope by the way is loosing friends and acquaintances at an astronomical pace ever since the public sphere of his world is divided in to Hindu/Muslim, India/Pakistan, Nationalist/Antinational, etc., is quite conscious on the choice of his words, and place of engaging in debates. He lost it all when the shop owner was speaking to one of the custmers and referring to Gujarat riot as a fantastic payback to the Muslim community who killed "thousands of Hindu pilgrims" in Godhra. Kaleidoscope tried to give him some statistics but as usual was informed that the statistics was wrong. Kaleidoscope wanted to give them the statistics of lynching (98% by the way happened after 2014, if one takes the data set from 2010 to 2019), but they labelled him as Pro-terrorist, Pro-Pakistani. One thing, Kaleidoscope thought that he had to stop going to that shop again in near future because he fear lynching! On the other hand the shopkeeper was loosing his customer. Lets talk about NRC then, Kaleidoscope thought. Knowing them to belong to a family which came to India much after independence they might be afraid of it! The response was like this "If requires we can live in detention camp" but we wholeheartedly support Modi-Shah because they will drive away the Muslims! It might have been incomprehensibly deep sense of jingoism and hatred that people like that shopkeeper is ready to even sacrifice their own comfort in the name of ethnic cleansing - Kaleidoscope thought! 

So the prison house is not to be feared - if it is detention camp then it might be better than prison house - at least that is what these people might have in their mind. Or does it have something to do with the "assurance" from the home minister that apart from the Muslims the rest of the people will get citizenship. Even if that happens there will be different classes of citizenship - Kaleidoscope knows, but who cares. 

No one:

Perhaps the most easy to use phrase is "no one." No one cares to what is happening (who cares are either jailed or are silently executed in one way or the other), and to the people whom these things are happening are no one! There is a dreaded indifference to the matters involving civil liberties and violations of fundamental rights - the prime example is of course the Kashmir. If the Kashmir is what can happen to Kaleidoscope and his fellow citizens, the amendment of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) by enabling it to designate individuals as terrorists without following any procedure and by providing the accused no effective means of redress is the instrument through which it can happen. On the one hand Kaleidoscope's fellow citizens have the example (Kashmir) and they can check with UAPA but they have other important things to do or celebrate the possible imprisonment of their fellow citizens. 

In so far as Kaleidoscope lives in a world where 'no one' cares for 'no one' there will be a rising number of 'no ones' until the country is completely dismantled. May be Kaleidoscope will have a dying wish inside/outside a detention camp that he would like to see in some future time. When those detention camps will become well maintained Museum objects at display with narratives for the future generations about what should not have been done! 

Meanwhile his society still has a chance of not doing it!

PC: https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/the-first-glimpse-of-new-detention-centres-for-foreigners-in-assam