EIP: What Should Be Our Objectives?
©Prakash J. Mascarenhas, Bombay, India.
In our fight to vacate the criminal occupation of our country, the EIP, we must keep these objectives in mind:
We must bear in mind always, that we are not alone in this struggle: While the particular circumstances that appertain to the others varies, it still remains true that they have legitimate moral cause for them. We must therefore join together with these others, such as the Nagas, Eelamites, Moluccans, West Papuans, etc., etc., seeking to move them away from the spirit of balkanisation and towards a constructive spirit, instead, that of building on the ruins of these pseudo-federations of the Indian Union, Burma, Ceylon, Indonesia, etc., a grand new and true federation - a Commonwealth of the East Indies, which can appeal to all the nations of the East Indian family of nations, giving them good reason to accede...