Someone didn’t do their Job!
Are you blaming politician/ corruption/casual attitude?
Are you feeling Guilty (though I see very few of them) for being lax and contributing to the mess?
The greatest need right now I guess is safety.
I guess you need to see authenticity in what people say,
You need consistency of actions!
And do you feel like participating in what is going on …
Yesterday I saw Simi Gravel asking Location in Pakistan to be carpet bombed. I also felt irritated at the response, though as I got up in the morning I started wondering why she will say that. My guess is she is feeling disconnected. Going by her famous show where everything seemed beautiful, all people very loving, I think that was her world. Now that world does not seem the same and she is angry.
We all know the ancient wisdom about what happens when we are angry.
From all the conversations that are taking center stage, I hear security, border petrol, sacrificing a little bit of Individual freedom, intelligence gathering, police reforms.
There is also a small voice that is being spoken but not really getting heard, that is “as long as there is injustice, communal divide some individuals will find motivation to be angry. And as I said earlier anger clouds ones judgments”
We are angry right now, but may be
….just may be there have been some people really angry for a longer time.
We may have all the safety, best of police force, the most it can do is make it very difficult for some angry people to express their anger publicly. Difficult but not impossible, some where someone will slip in…
Do we contribute to the existing injustice in the world…
Consider this
If you are fined by a traffic cop do I pay the 1000 bugs official fine or just 100 Rs for him to be considerate…
Do you feel angry at passing the slum and seeing people defecating on the road side…
Does violence in the North East affects you
Does violence in naxal regions, right from Andhra Coast to Jharkhand, and Bengal, almost the whole eastern belt of India gets your notice
Did you think communal riots after 93 blasts in Mumbai and Godhara Train burn were even remotely justified?
Would you even remember 84 riots if media and political parties for their benefit went silent over it
Do you even know how a large number of people in Meerut many years back were murdered by police in cold blood and buried in a field?
Do you know that even today in villages of Gujarat a Muslim shop is boycotted?
Do you know how many young people are picked up every time there is a disturbance in Andhra Pradesh from Old city of Hyderabad in the middle of night by police and some of them never return?
Did you loose any sleep over the recent attack on Christians in Orrisa, Karnataka, Maharashtra and ongoing targeting of them in MP and Rajasthan?
What about the Malegaon episode, did you for even a minute thought Hindus can not do it?
Do you see the dirtily dressed (if it can be called dressed) children at railway station and cringe at the smell
Do you think maid servants are not committed and crib when they ask for a raise?
Do you know there are more than 50000 people who live on streets in Andhra Pradesh (I am quoting AP as there was a survey 5 years back), any guess what will the number in Mumbai?
Have you ever cursed Medha Patekar for being anti progress, and
Do you have any idea what happened to the people who were displaced?
Do you believe that people in Kashmir are not patriotic?
….. And the list can go on
IF any of this statement holds true for you and me then we are also responsible for what happened in Mumbai, responsible either for being ignorant citizen or responsible for contributing to an opinion that allows establishment to discriminate against its own people because they do not have a voice!
You are angry NOW, think about how each of the above statement has a group of angry people behind them!
And don’t mistake me I am not justifying any act of violence, all I am saying is anger makes us loose control.
If I am angry some one can come and easily manipulate me to express my anger by killing some one.
In some case we choose to call it revenge (Post Godhra riots)
In some other case we call it Terrorism (what happened in Mumbai)
Or
In some cases like Kashmir, we call the same people terrorist, and in Kashmir some people will call them freedom fighters.
This is the truth,
It does not matter if you hate this truth; it just allows the status quo of violence to continue, not ironical that in English it is called “Sticking to Your Guns”.
Finally in last many years I have seen Gandhi being blamed, especially by the younger generation…
Do you think Gandhi is irrelevant now, well then we deserve the violence we are in the midst of!
An eye for an eye
Are you ready to take mine or give yours?
Sounds like a cure
As a democracy, that is surly a sign
We are mature
Ready to kill, Those
Who are looking
For a cyanide pill
To my spine that
Sends a chill
Are we a people
Who jump to find faults and
Then wait for the wound
To get salt, this time though
People speak as they are sure
Politicians good only for Manure?
A game called BLAME
May be this time they will be put to shame
but will we again leave it to fate
and continue to hate,
well then
let just sat the chair straight
a plate of chips, a cup of coffee
or whatever is your poison
and get ready for
Another breaking news
Coming to you live
Dead Sure!
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