Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Remembering 26/11……

Hmmm…. Its been quite a long time since I last blogged…. Too bad I can’t seem to sustain it. What with all the madness that comes across at college and class that I am left with very little time to do anything else. But, there should be no excuses at all I guess…. As Indians we all tend to EXCUSE ourselves out of any of the commitments that we might make. Not only that we also tend to FORGIVE and FORGET.
As is the case with most of the court trials, this one too seems to drag on like a 70’s hindi movie. There seems to be no relevance as the story is spinning way outta track….. BAD DIRECTION! Though at first we were all enraged, shocked (you can include all the adjectives that u might have experienced)…. when we saw the audacious gunmen creating a virtual hell in the financial capital of India. We lost lots of people, people from all walks of life…. This was one place no bribery or corruption worked, there was just one place to go and the wild gunmen decided which way it was supposed to be. The sadness of it was magnified when we lost brave police officers and a brilliant, gallant and young commando. It is horrifying for me to sit in front of my terminal and recount what I saw on tv…. Imagine how the people who went through, experienced or met gruesome fates at the helm of the happenings would have felt? The media converted the incident into a Bollywood movie…. I feel enraged and ashamed even today that I sat and watched through the news listening to words like “The Drama unfolded…” or “The story so far…” and things like that. How can they call it a story or a drama? I mean it really is sad and outrageous that when people are going through hell the media call it a drama. A drama or a story is unreal; it is only stating things in a visually attractive way… But going by the visuals of the 26/11 attacks, I can hardly believe anybody could fancy them to be attractive.
I wouldn’t want to go into the details of the horrific turmoil that shook the very foundation of humanity and which also opened the deadly face of terrorism. Even after a year, we are sending dossier after dossier to Pakistan which in itself must make it clear that they have their hands full at the moment- what with all the internal disturbances which itself is facing; terrorism is not sparing even its own parent, it’s a shame… Perhaps this is how old parents feel when their ungrateful children drive them out; after they are fed, watered and cared for! Now what? How many of us even remember the faces of Omble, Sandeep and Karkare? It is sad that out of the few who really did their duties properly aren’t even remembered. It is even sadder that we not only forgot the martyrs but also the incident itself. We have now seen the country where a man was caught on camera along with hundreds of witnesses testifying that it was the same who with a gun in his hand wreaked havoc on the streets of Mumbai, and where is he now? He is now as I understand having the best food in his life, demanding luxuries like a Tv set for watching India-Pakistan play and throwing tantrums which even celebs do not! How much more complacent can we get?
It is time we stopped ADJUSTING! We adjusted ourselves to the British, we are adjusting ourselves to corruption and all the lawlessness that happens right in front of our eyes and we will adjust to all situations that endanger us as long as we are not the victims. And when we become victims we start BLAMING! We are not bloody politicians to do the blame game. Whichever news channel u surf, u can see people clad in kurtas and other traditional attire, speaking in idiotic accents with crazy language usages that would only put us to shame and make us wonder – “Did I really vote for this clown to sit there and talk nonsense?”
In no other country is there such a huge tolerance level. The US still remembers 9/11. Its still hunting for the people responsible. They don’t really care they are hurting religious sentiments – All they are concerned is about the safety of their people. Now isn’t it really the primary concern of any government? They didn’t care if the person was a president to a certain country and they didn’t care if he was a celebrated icon world over. All they cared was about the religion of the person since it is known world over and has been proved time and again that it is only people from that religion who are causing havoc. I do have friends hailing from the same religion and I do feel sorry for them since it is really sad that they’re subjected to this indecent inequality but as my friends themselves put it “We have to suffer what a few of the unfit people who call themselves to be the workers of God do. But actually, our God only says what your God does – love life and life shall love you!”
A famous poet once wrote “let me be by the side of the road and be a friend to man!”, we have embraced that to the last literal and have become what we are today. At least, let us make a simple start by taking some time out and remembering those who gave their lives away not just as an honor to their memory but also to remind ourselves that we should not forgive and should not forget those that held us and our country to ransom!

5 comments:

  1. Its hearting to see many of us sharing similar views.So why do we refrain ourselves from taking action. I would like to invite you to read my blog and then join our forum which would work to eliminate all the evils that have polluted our country.Let us all come together and do our bit for the country,and in a way pay our respect to the martyrs.
    my blog's link-http://aniketblogs.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/redemption/
    hope we stand on the same side against corruption!Please support us.
    forum's link :->
    http://riseup.forumotion.net/

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  2. Dear Ani,
    What u feel is correct. we are wasting our time and money in useless hearings. These things sould be dealt with stubborn rules. We talk of feedom of speech and like that freedom of anything. Even media are playing double roles. Even in TamilNadu, Veeraapan was made a hero by the magazines and police actions were publicly critisized. Even the Tamil weekly Anantha Vikatan which says it cares for the society, still supports LTTE Leader Prabakaran and issues photoes and articles (in his support) on him. It is not known whether they support Srilankan Tamil people or the LTTE? They have simply forgotten that the LTTE has killed the Prime Minister of India (whoever he may be ) . It is a pity that we all dont know where to start from and wish that things to happen just like what happened in a film like Wednesday.

    Sridharan Balaraman

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  3. @Aniket:
    I read your blog dude.... good work.... I guess the problem lies within us!! It is time WE changed things.. I want something to be done.. I will do it... I wont ask some low down cheapo to do my dirty work by 'cajoling' him!! We should take an oath to follow rules and if we're caught at it, we should accept it and demand to be the penalized in a legal way(i don't want to pay up a 100 bucks to some traffic constable for violating any rules- instead pay the money and get the receipt). I agree that corruption boughs us down but thats besides the fact that we have become complacent in all walks of life!!! Be it the corruption front, raising our voice against injustice or be it the fact that there is national insolence and insubordination!! We must make it a point... remember, its we who have to do the sewing for a badly tailored cloth whose material is brilliant but the tailors are too weak, lazy and inefficient... so what should the people who want to wear that cloth do... LEARN TAILORING!!!!

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  4. @Sridhar uncle:
    As u have watched the movie The Wednesday, you must have realized what frustration the man went thru... He din't lose his relative nor his close friend, just some co-passenger whom he used to travel with everyday!!! So why did he do what he proposed to do? People are starving to see action.... We do not want our blogs to be another media where we can criticize and do the blame game.... i guess nationalism is much more deeper now than it ever was.... always volatile and knowing our history to be witness to the bloodiest of traitors its surprising our country has progressed thus far!! But to where it is heading to... the signs turn dark... All forms of media glorify people of their concern... be it the visual or printed... The visual media have become "NEWS MAKERS" from "NEWS TELLERS", everything is drama or a story for them no matter what the incident be... be it a wedding of some public figure or deaths to a million people... it's always a "NEWS ITEM" for them!!!
    But the question we should ask ourselves is: "Why do we need them?" We have potential news bearers who are reliable sources in the net.... watch and read only the relevant material.... When the TRP rating falls and the reader's choice decreases, they will revert back to what their original purpose is... "INFORMATION BROADCAST"!!!

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  5. @anirudh
    dude, it seems that we stand on the same side and I have initiated something to fight these evils . I have created a forum wherein we all can come together and fight it out . We can collectively fight with them. But I need to have support of guys like you. Hope to see soon as an active member of our forum.
    We need to bring in more and more people who share similar sentiments but the feeling of being a lone fighter stops them from fighting it out.
    lets come together and work .
    the link of the forum is as follows:
    http://riseup.forumotion.net/

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