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As Michael Foucault said,

As Karl Marx said,

As Habermas said,

As Gramsci said,

As Althusser said,

As John Rawls said,

As Slavok Zizek said,

Social power leads to

Cultural hegemony

It leads to political economy.

Social hegemony is needed for a cultural economy.

Political economy necessitates cultural economy.

In any ethnic-based society,

Like caste-based societies might be right.

As I had seen with an ethic-based society in a foreign land,

I understood your ethnic power.

Your Naga is your source of power.

Korea is your mother land.

Nagaland is your native land.

Zunhebuto is your ethnic land.

Kilomi is your birth place.

You appear to have been born, raised, and educated with Christian principles

Like any man from the north eastern hemisphere,

You joined the insurgency

Became prime minister of the under-ground government

Soon after, you became a Parliament member twice.

Like any activist, your dreams are fulfilled.

Becoming a Parliament member or legislative member

Every Indian's fantasy

Every Asian's fantasy comes true.

Every African's fantasy

Every subaltern's dream

Except a few bastards like me

They want to produce critical literature.

Dalit bastards like me

Who reads critical literature, reads critical literature, reads critical literature, reads critical literature, reads critical literature

To write the wrongs even if it means death

I observed you for more than twenty years.

I observed your family power.

I observed your power politics.

Like any Indian,

Power politics is not new to our mode of society.

That’s why irrationality overrides rationality.

Violence over nonviolence

Prejudice over justice

Lies triumph over truth

Corruption triumphs over honesty.

Family triumphs over people.

People are goats and sheep.

They go by ethnic identities in the hill country.

In the same way that caste identities exist on the mainland,

They don’t realize what is happening to them.

They are pawns.

They are scapegoats.

Only power knows.

Who is the pawn here?

What is the scapegoat's identity?

Who is his hair's savior?

People are still sleeping.

They will sleep forever till

Ethnic identities and caste identities exist.

As in our mode of society,

As you aware of power politics

Caste and ethnic identities are power centers.

As Ambdkarites used to capture petty power

Your northeastern people are hungry for petty power

We're all familiar with petty power and its impact on subordinates.

Like Ambedkaties, they use petty power on subalterns like me.

Once upon a time, you too humiliated me in Dimapur

Power abuse against lovers, critics, intellectuals, writers, outspoken, atheists, human rights voices, whistleblowers, and anti-corruption activists is a common occurrence in Asia, Africa, and Islam.

Fight a system.

Fight an Indian ideology

Fight an Asian ideology

Fight a Pacific ideology.

Fight a casteism

Fight racism

Fight an ethnocentrism

Fight for sexuality.

Fight for the LGBTQ community

Fighting for formal equality

Fight an African ideology

Fight an Islamic ideology

You will come to know whether you are a lion or a cow.

The Lion is our repressive system.

The Lion is our repressive ideology.

The Lion represents our depravity.

Our inhuman and heinous ideologies are lionized.

I came out of the Ambedkarites' ideology.

I realized

I experienced how much

Ambedkarites are internally exploiting fellow untouchables.

I experienced their systematic corruption.

Family politics

Amassing wealth

Internal oppression is omnipotent among them.

Just like yours

People think you retired from power.

They are sleeping, so

They are subconscious.

They are unconscious.

But power is centralized within your family only.

You know very well.

I know very well.

We know very well.

Some may argue that there is nothing wrong.

When others hold family tree,

It is not a problem in our mode of society.

Casteism and ethnocentrism are deeply rooted, operated, practiced, glorified, installed, and theorized even among goats and sheep.

People can’t escape from it.

Dalit bastards like me, your son's or son-in-law's favorite word, are escaping from Indian ideology.

We are running away from the Asian mode of society

We are moving away from African ideology

We are running away from Islamic ideology

But they are omnipresent and omnipotent.

People like me are alone.

You are a Gandhian.

There are 7.9 billion Gandhis

Power hungers, family trees, molesters, violent

Oppressors of goats and sheep

They constructed a family tree.

Who can cut the family tree when it is deep-rooted?

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