You guys deserve it.
A standing ovation.
And we give it you with all our heart, a standing ovation from the entire nation, with its broken heart and shaken trust .
And we are also proud of the justice you meted out to the nation. You spend Rs. 105,600 this year on national defence, nearly 14.1 per cent of total central government expenditure on "National Defence" undermining the importance of Health, Education, Services and Infrastructure and terrorists still attack the poshest and most "High Security" areas of the country and kill people randomly . I am sure they could any day bomb the India Gate and you could still be sleeping. And one day you just might reach for that office of yours, the "beautifully designed piece of architecture " by Lutyens and find that it's been wiped off the face of the earth and still only manage to dish out lines that are sourly boring and as interesting as eating toilet paper. I can hardly stop laughing when you guys , in your crisp white kurtas and Nehru jackets blabber the same lines like parrots, the ones that go "we condemn the attacks, the guilty will not be spared, we stand united, we share the grief, it's the nations shared grief". Oh! You also think that the resignation of your "Home Minister" is the greatest condonance and will set right all the wrongs and failures and wipe out the pain felt by the friends and relatives and shared by everyone but you.
Who are the guilty my dear ministers? Who will you catch hold of? Who will finally be tried in your courts of justice and who will be the judge?
By the way, as Visa, my younger brother, suggested, why don't you teach those courageous journalists how to shoot with your imported, high perfomance guns? They are doing a great job of shooting and with perfect aim at that with their cameras. And not withstanding the fact that they were there at all those sites, beaming videos of the attacks across the world much earlier than the National Security Personnel, who for all we know, realised the emergency through those news channels and reached the site after 8 hours.
And of course the million dollar question that everyone's asking and has created a chain of smses going around..Where is Raj? Would the nation love to see his "marathi" face now!!!
We are waiting for your justice , pardon the inverted commas , "Milord".
2 comments:
While this will be fun to read, I wonder when will people like you actually start getting into the murky world of politics and get started with the task of cleaning all of this?
My question is pretty simple. How do we end this? How do we deal with terrorism? Do you think it to be wise for our politicians to create a sense of paranoia regarding our neighbors?
They have a lot of their folks killed in the past one year, one victim actually being a source of inspiration for women in that country.
While the current (guarded) approach of using the international community and the media feeding its frenzy seems a little more diplomatic, why do they make the same mistakes again and again?
I have one more question. You saw one side of the media, saying that they bravely stood their with their cameras and reported. But is it not true that it is their job and to a certain extent, it is also their ego that they boosted with the reporting.
Did you see the press conferences? I could hear reporters telling each other to shut up. And I wondered if the new media in India is actually second rate ( I have formed that opinion based on the fact that journalistic pieces in many newspapers are abysmal in their layout, structure and value). There was a little more to journalism than just finding the perfect spot to shoot and tell. And the part where they speak and raise their voices or lower them based on how to present is irritating.
Apologies for the rant.
Amazing pieces written on your blog.
Yes Rutu,
I agree with you with all my heart.
We do have to create an alternative for the existing murky political parties and murkier politicians.
And media too has to someday become responsible as well as responsive. The only time i did manage to catch the news was at midnight and that too not on an Indian channel. It always makes me wonder why, i being such a patriotic, hate watching those channels?
As for the politicians , no, i do not want them to create panic and go dancing on the heads of our neighbours!! The only thing i worry about is why, O why, do they have to wait till something like this happens, to get proactive? Why can't they plan in advance? It's not as if they didn't know this would happen? They did!! And that's what hurts.. Their callousness, their nonchalance!!
Every citizen of India deserves an answer from them and that's what we will not get. For them, there is no accountability or answerability.
When the three pillars of democracy become shaky, and the fourth pillar is busy blowing its own trumpet, you begin to doubt the validity of all the things you were taught in civic science!!
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