Have you read Elie Wiesel's moving story entitled "The Watch"? It tells the travails of a Jewish boy, indeed of the entire Jewish community, of the unfortunate Jews post Kristallnacht, and on the way to the notorious concentration camps. My translation of this story for a Marathi magazine was liked a lot.
Have you heard of the "Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenistsyn? Literally THE Ur-text of pain, humiliation, degradation it is. I am indeed elated that my translation of a few chapters from it for a journal dedicated to translation was much appreciated.
Why all these details? Well, I read about an offer by the president of El Salvador, Señor Nayib Bukele! He has offered the U.S. an outsourcing possibility. It consists of the U.S. sending its prison inmates to the mega prison in El Salvadore entitled CECOT, that is, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo which is Spanish for the Center of confinement of terrorism.
Señor Bukele's crazy logic is that the fee charged would be peanuts for the U.S. while the amount would be a 'cost effective solution to its over-crowded system'. I would not know, as I am not either on X or insta, what Anand Mahindra would have to say to this bizarre offer, but it is the pits as far as I am concerned.
It apparently looks as if America, given its excessive (and, by definition, criminalised) illegal immigrants in the wake of Mr. Trump's MAGA move(ment)s, could share the burden for a fee. How inhumane is the proposal which seems to trade in human beings! Earlier it was for slaves; now for purported convicts ( who could be illegal immigrants some of whom were merely foolishly chasing the American dream the wrong way)!
Where, to which demonic stupidities, has the globalisation rhetoric led the twenty-first century world?!? In the liberalised economy unleashed thus, anything can be Pvt Ltd! Anything for the sake of monies! Terrorism IS bad, and an internationally synchronised effort is indeed necessary to curb that criminality. That does not, however, mean that mankind commits itself to such horrors either.
Such a practice would indeed be a pathetic and pathological continuation of the terrorist tricks, and state-sponsored at that! Does dimwit Bukele realise what such a proposal would do to the already much fraught North-South debate! Hope neither Mr.Trump nor Mr. Musk would listen to this senseless suggestion, which is mean viciousness and cruelty personified!
Pratima@He who sells what is not his, must buy it back or go to prison. I do not know the author of this gem. Señor Bukele should realise how much it applies to him, too!
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