*The review has been deliberately kept India-centric.*How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn’t see
How many ears one must have to hear people cry
How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky
How many deaths will it take for a man to know that too many people have died ?*
We The Living :
Sir, I beg your pardon , but you are wrong .who told you i’m alive ? I’m dead, we all are dead ones here and if we aren’t dead how are we in this hell ? Don’t tell us this isn’t hell or we won’t be able to die ! And no , I still hold that we are dead, see how unaffected we are to the things taking place around us .
How often do we hear the news of casualties , civilians or otherwise, in various terrorist attacks ? Quite often . And how often do we really care ? Never. The news of death is not bigenough to make us pause for a while with our lives. People might be dying, but hey !let me complete my joke first. Immune , aren’t we ? And how we love numbers, if the casualty’s high we certainly sit up and take notice and what do we do then? Nothing ? On second thoughts is there anything we can do ? The Govt ofcourse will set-up committees and sub-committees .Life moves on, we tend to forget some pretend .Today is a Brand new day. We’hv new casualties Bad news is God news. How they love showing us the wailing family-members .Oh ! so much for reality TV. Sick minds we are, how we love these news-items. We love it , they know it therefore they show it.
Of Terrorism & Terrorists :
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. And when innocent ones are getting killed , all a certain Mushraff has to say is Stuff happens. Some statement this. Moral support to an immoral cause. Is Death an PR exercise?. With so many apocryphal claims doing the rounds, truth becomes a victim .
What is terrorism and who these terrorists are ? who told them that killing innocent ones will help them achieve their desired aim? Naïve, brain-washed individuals. They are doing this for money . Fine what about a certain London School of Eco grad and the one from the Saudi Royal family ? Is it that they know that they can’t win but have still decided to fight, just for the heck of it ! Is killing them the solution, the only solution. How do you threaten someone with death who is ready to die.I say it’s frustration. They know very well that their aim is farther than their reach but they are ready to go to any extent , the splashed blood gives them some sort of satisfaction- that they are fighting .
Religion :
Islamic terrorism ;
We won’t have peace unless the Arabs start loving their children more than they hate ours.
Islam preaches brotherhood and non-violence and those perpetrators can never be considered a true follower of Islam. So what went wrong ? Why are so many mis-interpreting it ? I want an answer to this question. Is islam in danger ?. Are their grievances for real ? Can it be addressed ? If yes, then what are we waiting for ? more deaths to wake us from our slumbering state ?
Hindu Terrorism :
Honestly, they are just a handful and can’t do anything unless the state is in connivance (Gujrat Riots) . We can’t justify Godhra incident we can’t justify the subsequent rioting either. Do they have any grievances ? The hate the word secular they say it stands for anti-hindu. don’t completely disagree with this statementhey ask – why Godhra was not condemned in strongest of terms, why it failed to evoke any reaction from different quarters? They basically condemned the crime but blamed the victims. So the state-govt decided to lead the rioters ? If this isn’t sick , what is ? Remember the photo splashed in all the dailies showing a man pleading for life …..
If this is what religion has to give us, Dear God , help us become atheists.
State-sponsered terrorism :
Do the things taking place in J&K fall under this category? There are so many allegations, is it possible that there’s no truth in it . fire without smoke, anyone.
There are dissatisfied ones, more than a handful ofcourse . A candidate who was beaten up severely during an election decided that enough was enough and took to gun. Today the same man is giving the intelligence agencies, army and govt sleepless nights. There might be selevral such cases even if we don’t know them , we know they are there. Rigged elections and Human Rights violation issues. One of these days there wont be any human left to cause any human right violation problem . ideal solution ?
Of Super-powers and Body-counts ;
The Iraq war – was it an act of terrorism ? America decides to have a war that in itself is the reason and justification. UN can be arm-twisted . *Oil, did any one say?. Oil’s well that ends in a war? *Saddam was a devil a ruthless dictaror , we all know that . He did bad things , very true. So counter those bad things by doing the same !
An American life is more precious than an Indian life * may be it has something to do with our burgeoning population. A fe thousands more or less makes no different at all. So while America can bomb a country to ashes India will be asked to show restraint in the face in acute provocations *(Kargil) .But wait ! they will reward us , economic grants’ on its way .
Resurrection :
We have to do away with vote-politics .The rhetoric of more muslims in our country than yours makes no sense at all . What do we do then ? They are Our people, they might be angry . So what ? Even if it’s politically impossible for the Govt to accept it’s mistakes it should not stop it from rectifying the mistakes . The ceaseless violence is making everyone sick , it’s time peace took centre-stage . Do we have to talk to Hurriyat who claim that they are the sole representative of the people of J&K? We know what they have to say and they are not going to change their minds . the are Pakistan’s stooges , mere puppets , so why not talk to the thread-pullers instead ? No grand summits no PR exercise just a serious and sincere effort and the endeavors might succeed . How about not playing to the gallery for once. Why not attend to their grievances , its never late . We are taking to our people , who are and will be with us , what’s the shame in it ?