I have witnessed many traumatic and excruciating terror attacks, and I was hurt and shaken by each of them, but none hit me as hard as the recent Mumbai terror attacks did. The entire sequence of events made me feel so frustrated, irritated and disgusted that I experienced a feeling of guilt, of not been able to do anything for my country at those hours of crisis. I was at a pub enjoying a post event party with my friends, when suddenly somebody stopped the DJ and broke this news to us, it was around 2240 PM, at that point we thought it to be some routine chaos caused by the Raj Thakeray’s buffoons, but wisely so most of us rushed back to our homes and after reaching back we came to realize the gravity of the situation, when we were being flooded by the phone calls of our relatives and friends from all over the country. That was just the start of the pain and anxiety which was to follow for next 60 hours. With no TV at my place I was stuck to my laptop, refreshing at least 10-12 news website every 2 minutes and attending the phone calls from all over, getting updated about the entire drama. Thanks to our brave soldiers and security personnel the epic ended but what followed was even more hurting for me and the level of outrage which was boiling inside me rose to mercuric levels. I was and I am, still bamboozled with the way our office bearers have handled the entire situation and made a complete mockery of it.
It’s a real shame for the entire nation that we have chosen these spineless rustics to rule our country and to protect us from any untoward incidents. It was really shocking that the incumbent ministers who enjoy a security expense of Rs 180 crores on them, as against a meager Rs 158 crores expense for the common man, can’t even pay slightest of attention to the regular warnings being given by our intelligence about the possible sea borne attack on the metropolis. Reasons for this lapse????? May be because that wouldn’t have helped them strengthen there vote bank for the forthcoming elections. For those who came to know about the name of our Home Minister only after the tragic incident or for some who still don’t who our honorable Home Minister was at the time of the attacks, here is some food for thought, the name is Mr Shivraj Patil…. Surprised??? Even I was. I can’t recall a single act of his which actually qualifies him as a candidate for Home Minister, but unfortunately he was the one, probably one of the weakest ever our nation has seen, and to expect any strong measures from him, was actually asking for too much, may be one of the few advantages which the attacks presented us with was his outcast. Another out of the place heroic was being exemplified by the dynamic Mr Narendra Modi, who reached one of the terror seiged targets, wasting a security cover of 12 NSG commandos on him and targeting the incumbent government for the attacks. Now come on!!!! Was it really the time to cash on for some political interests?? Even a mentally challenged person would have thought of only one thing at that point of time and that was just the well being of our COUNTRY, but with the flamboyant Mr Modi it wasn’t so. What followed wasn’t any better either, Mr R R Patil, honorary deputy chief minister of the state, tried to lighten the atmosphere for the grieving nation by MISusing the lines of a famous bollywood movie “bade bade shehro, aisi choti choti baate hoti rehti hai”, goodness gracious me, WHAT WAS THAT??? HORRENDOUS!!!
Things got dirtier when the Chief Minister of the state Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh, loitered his way into the Taj Mahal hotel accompanied by his not so popular actor son Ritiesh Deshmukh and the super flop film director Ram Gopal Verma, now what these two gentlemen were doing here on the very next day after the event would be a task far too tough even for the US Intelligence to comprehend, but this is India my friend!!!! I guess it was a tourist visit to one of the monumental parks. The mudslinging wasn’t confined to the boundaries of terror affected areas but it bore its trauma even on the saddened family members of the martyr Unnikrishnan, whose parents have to face a media captured DOG fight with another high profile office bearer, the chief minister of Kerala. SHAMEFUL! Incidents like this which hurt even more than the actual tragedy galore but what saddens me more is the fact that what can a common man like me do to vent out his outrage and to accomplish his dream of doing some thing for the nation. He can’t go out there any fight the miscreants on his own, nor can he join the army or any of the security forces, as he/she wont be physically competent to do so. He can’t become the minister in charge or office bearer thereby changing the laws and policies to our good, because for that he will have to be a part of this entire dirty system. Protesting against the terrorists or the ministers is just short lived and it eventually dies in the days following the real tragedy, so even that’s not a way to fight the real problem. We as Indians are very emotional by nature and we have a habit of forgetting things very easily, now when the entire nation is in anger against the in competencies of these impotent politicians, we will forget every bit of it in next 15 days.
I still can’t understand when our neighbors have been creating havoc in our nation or for that matter promoting such activities in our nation from last decade or so, why can’t we take any strong military action against them???? Politically because we don’t have any strong evidence against them??? Now did USA waited to find any politically viable evidences before attacking Afghanistan or Iraq after 9/11??? They didn’t. Everybody knew what has been done is wrong and so it was all justified, although if we analysis the entire situation on the parameters of human rights and other humanitarian issues it would be a different ball game altogether, but why we as a nation are so lackadaisical in our attitude??? Aren’t our lives as valuable as an normal American life??? These questions make me feel so shattered and guilty that even I am a part of this system, and to expect our government taking any strong action against the culprits would be again asking for too much, what they are engaged in or for that matter any political party would have been engaged in at this point is only one thing, strategizing the policies for the next general election which are to be held in the next quarter. And they have already started doing so by manipulating the inflation figure which is rapidly coming down, but it’s a real surprise that the daily use commodities still cost us the same!!!!
So what can a common man do to fight this mess which has engulfed the entire system??? Unfortunately I don’t have a clear cut agenda with myself either. But I would share a dream or rather a fascination of mine, when I was a teenager. I had this rage of casting a vote at the time of elections and was very fascinated by the entire process. 8 years have passed by since I have been eligible for casting a vote constitutionally, but much to my dismay I am yet to exercise my right even once, and this has happened due to my stay outside my home town attributed mainly due to studies and job location, and I still regret every time I miss that opportunity. But at this point of time I find myself rather lucky and to some extent satisfied that I haven’t casted my vote and hence I am not a part of electing this politicians, I am not against any political party because for me all are one and the same with there only motto being there own well being, everything else come later or rather never comes. Hence my idea of doing something for the nation, inspired by the current stream of events is that I won’t exercise my VOTE ever. I don’t want to be a part of this process of electing which eventually ends up electing those people who eat up the economy for there welfare and leaving the nation in a state of helplessness, disarray and quandary at the time of contingencies. Not only this I would earnestly propagate this ideology of mine to whosoever I can, of not using this fundamental right of there in electing such people who ultimately end up doing no good to our motherland. I will justify my ideology by umpteen number of reasons which will clearly explain why one should not exercise this right and what are the consequences of being a part of this process. So when all the political parties will come up with there own political agendas to woo our hearts, may be I will come with mine with justified reasons of opting for a NO VOTE option. I may be antisocial and constitutionally incorrect and might not be able to do so by the means of road shows but I will certainly do it by some means like a chain mails and I guess being a common man I can exercise this right of doing something for my motherland of which I am very proud of and I truly care for it unlike some of the office bearers of our beloved nation.
Jai Hind!
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