When the Mumbai Police, ATS and the govt were busy politicising Malegaon blast case. When the Defence Minister forgot to buck up the coastal security goof-ups. And also when the terror attacks have stopped becoming a big-deal in India – until three days back.
Now, it’s a big deal, as shamelessly asked by the Congress Spokesperson – “where was the media fraternity when North-east and the J&K was burning?” Well, North-east and J&K have not stopped burning, and answer to the media bit is – it chases TRPs, even at the cost of morality. If media didn’t chase TRPs, it won’t have gone bonkers with Bigg Boss, at least the most recent event that I can remember - the TV show that turned a underworld don’s wife into a star. Media routinely entertained people with Monica and Abu Salem's forgotten love-affair. Abu Salem is the man who once set Mumbai on fire, Monica Bedi is his ex-wife, his partner in crime(s) and now seeking our forgiveness! The show that hooked millions of Indians, to celebrate and vote for a wife beater and druggist Rahul Mahajan. Here, we are setting example of creating heroes out of criminals... democracy prevails alongside hypocrisies.
The answer to Congress Spokesperson’s shameless comment leads to another comment – Our politicians have lost it all. Leaders like Raj Thackeray who wakes up at a sneeze of a North Indian, watched his Mumbai being saved by ‘Indian’ commandos. With due respect, both the commandos who laid down their lives for the defence of Mumbai were not Marathis.
But until three days back terror strikes were not a big deal, because it was affecting J&K, North-east, common people, common places, trains, busses and not places that can make India answerable to the global community. In less than 50 hours, multi-national teams have formed to investigate the terror attack, PM Manmohan directed the ISI chief from Pak to report at New Delhi, Prez-elect Obama assured a full-support to combat terrorism. Perhaps, India won't have seen anymore terror attack after December 13, 2003 had that been a successful one.
In the recent Mumbai attacks, NSG commandos took 12 hours to get down on action. When the Maharastra CM called our 'Home' Minister in Delhi who was by all means was sleeping at 'Home', we were late by 3 hours. The 200 NGS men reached Delhi airport only to realise that IL-76 (the aircraft) was not there. It was brought in from Chandigarh, refuelled, took off and touched down Mumbai. Finally? Not yet, commandos then had to wait for buses to bring them to places of attacks, unfortunately those were BEST buses - unlike politicians with luxury coaches and politicians who added more to the havoc. Was there any need of PM and Sonia to be in Mumbai after the attacks? The security taken by them could have saved a few more lives.
The combined Indian forces did a thankless job in the end, they were taken back by the same BEST buses, again unlike politicians, rescued guests in the hotels and of course all that was after 70 hrs of intense gunbattle, sleepless nights, fighting well-trained, Pak-sponsored Islamist terrorist...
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Well said Barshu. J&K and the North-East have always been forgotten. They've never ignited a rage that we are seeing now (I hope it can last). It's taken our media, and all of us a shock like this to realise:
1. It hurts when innocent lives are lost - anywhere in the country.
2. It can happen to us anywhere, anytime, and we don't necessarily have to be in Srinagar or Guwahati.
3. Our security forces (.. am gonna pick this up from your post Barshu, coz there's no other apt word) have done a thankless job again.
Lets just hope this anger and fire within stays as it's now, and we don't need more gruesome reminders.
Everyone seems to have forgotten the gujarat riots and orissa, recently. Just because it wasn't covered live and with all this incessant drama, can one really think this in mumbai, is the 'worst' 'terror attack' that has taken place. you had thousands of people living next to each other for years, with 'Indian' filled in the right blank in their ration cards, brutally turning on each other in gujarat. How did terror take over development and inequity as the country's biggest crisis?
Our politicians have lost it all. Leaders like Raj Thackeray who wakes up at a sneeze of a North Indian, watched his Mumbai being saved by ‘Indian’ commandos. With due respect, both the commandos who laid down their lives for the defence of Mumbai were not Marathis. really petty to bring this up right now. and what abt kamte, salaskar and karekar? does it even matter where they're from or how they died? more rubbish to counter thackeray's rubbish. and this operation was not world war III. these men deserve our respect, but people need not get so worked up by everything our very partisan media reports.
Frankly, breaking news should go take a break.
It matters where Kamte, Salaskar and Karekar were from... They are from 'Republic of India'. Isn't it petty when a young fellow dies in the heart of Mumbai under mysterious circumstances - by a cop who was involved in the fake paper scam with Abdul Karim Telgi. And and it's even pettier for him to die on a day just after Mr Thackeray's (Raj) Z category security was questioned.
Yes, the operation was not World War 3, it was an operation in the financial capital of a 3rd world country's plush locations, where brown Indian forces "tried' to save white and rich humans whose lives are precious, so much so that we can ridicule the "thankless" job as a "No 3rd World War".
Yes, the operation was not World War 3, it was an operation in the financial capital of a 3rd world country's plush locations, where brown Indian forces "tried' to save white and rich humans whose lives are precious, so much so that we can ridicule the "thankless" job as a "No 3rd World War".
earth is one planet and the whole 'third world', 'brown', 'black', 'pink', 'poor' argument has always escaped my limited understanding of professional duties towards lives in danger. and the 'financial capital' and other 'spirit of mumbai' kind of pat descriptions the average citydweller seems to come up with, is being blind to the millions of small agricultural/industrial communities, towns and villages that make up this country. also, since i happen to know something about men in uniform, i will not even dare to ridicule their effort. just that, people need to keep a steady head about men who's job it is to fight, instead of turning it into a theatrical display of inflated nationalist emotions.
anyway, no quibbles with your post, and you're entitled to your opinions.
Professional duties, is like rechristened servants whom we now call domestic help(To make politically correct statements):-)
Theatrical display of nationalist emotions is how a I-do-give-a-damn generation would react...
Hey Barshu..i saw ur comments in the blog of "mumbai drama the hidden truth"..kudos for tat..i have also send him a link of faridabad in punjab district, pakistan to make it more authentic..thanks my fellow indian..take care..
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