10 terrorists, 7 locations - including 2 landmark hotels and a busy railway station, a 3 day siege, 190 people killed, hundreds more injured and yet the home minister feels its just "a stray incident in this big city". The CM deems it fit to visit the ravaged hotel with his actor son and a film director. An attack which brought the city to its knees.. and yet it wasn't the first one even if it was the most horrifying one. And its aftermath sees the usual finger pointing, a few resignations here and there, grand declarations, a whole lot of chest thumping, studio activists with the ever ready sound byte about the resilience of the city, the spirit of the city.. and an angry, terrified but finally helpless common man.
And then as the wounds heal, life returns to normalcy all is forgotten except probably by those whose wounds run too deep to fully heal. The facade of solidarity now discarded for divisive votebank politics, ambitious anti-terror plans are stalled for a few votes. The parliament stands divided when now more than ever it has to be united.
Every time we think the worst is past us, that the government has finally woken up, there is yet another attack. The serial blasts of 93, Kargil war, the attack on the parliament, blasts ripping through local trains.. the list is long with each attack more audacious than the previous. And yet successive governments choose to sleep over the issue of catastrophic failure of the intelligence and security agencies in all these cases. The heroes of 26/11 will be lauded but were their deaths necessary? How many more incidents should occur before the government can finally wake up to the reality of terror attacks? Before dedicated units are setup to ruthlessly counter the terrorism, their hands not tied by either politics or religion? And till when will the common man continue to be a silent spectator to the entire circus? Maybe he has forgotten that he controls the circus.
Vote sensibly for the right person and the right party. If there is no sensible person standing then choose the "i do not want to vote" option at the polling station (if these votes are in majority then a re-election is held with new candidates) but most importantly VOTE.
PS: Why is Raj Thackeray so silent over the attacks on his beloved city?
1 comment:
There was a funny message circulating during last few days...
"Those commandos who died saving people were north Indians n all..where is Raj now?"
I refuse to believe that those commandos were really thinking of region when they had gun in their hands.
If u think that way.. the policemen who died were marathi. I wonder how many marathi people were actually there in the Taj/Oberoi at the time of mishap. Its really important to differentiate between issues which deal with protection of nation and regional demands. It happened in mumbai.. it could have been very well in delhi or chennai. That time who knows some commandos would have been marathi (is the region really and important issue here? )
Agreed that person is taking forward the issue in a wrong way.. but he has got a point.
When a person stays somewhere he belong to that place atleast physically. Even mutual co-operation is followed even in most prehistoric micro organisms. Parasites are never liked and wanted in any system.
One politician making or not making a statement is really not an issue of the hour. Indians have a very short memory, soon the cause would be forgotten only the effects will be remembered for a long time.. as has happened with all previous mishaps.
मराठी माणूस आईच्या पोटातून येत नाही. तो इथल्या मातीत घडवीला जातो. अमिताब बच्चन हा राज इतकाच मराठी माणूस आहे. मी उत्तर प्रदेश मधून आलो तरी चालेल पण पोटासाठी जर मी इथे आहे तर मी स्वतहाला इथाला मानले पाहिजे. बनारसच्या साडीचा जेव्ह्डा अभिमान तितकाच शिवाजीचा का वाटू नये माला?
People like Ratan Tata and Ambani has contributed more for mumbai than any other politician. No doubt they must have helped their native places.. but they had the courtesy of helping the system which they are using. Sadly now the system is so burdened that it cannot take in even those who want to contribute.
I think Even Raj is missing the point.
Lets not be political. We can do better than that...
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