Can't break the silence

I am this irregular face in the campaign against Bhopal Gas Tragedy and don’t go there wearing my media cap either. I can’t, someone else is assigned for it. I go there to listen to my favourite singer singing Bavra Mann, He Sajni Re etc.

For a fact, I have de-activated myself when I joined J-school 4 years ago, I was asked to think and write like a journalist and not an activist. It was important to de-activate, because more often than not that you have to be factually and not emotionally correct, newsrooms are also like courtrooms! Now, I don’t find "meat" in social movements, I would rather want to know about the latest gadget that detects G-spots:)

Technically G-spots are referred to women, but wonder why Manmohan Singh found his G-spot, which he visited last week in Japan - the G-8 summit? At a time when his own democracy is sinking, not just with rising oil and food prices, gripping credit and climate change, but also with an unsolved misery of last 23 years. As they call it, "a catastrophe that has no parallel in industrial history" – the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Mr. Economist-Prime Minister was busy spotting his G8, to lie to the world about India’s food security, energy security, climate change and what not?

The last time I went to listen to Bavra Mann was also the day when people from Bhopal have entered their 101st day of protest – they sang to break the silence. They sang for Mr. No-Response Prime Minister to agree with their demand of rehabilitation 'in principle'. They sang to restore democracy and human rights... Alas! Bavra Mann