Random.

"Kill all my demons.......and all my angels might die too."

-Transsiberian.

random.

"The human heart has hidden treasures,

  in secret kept , in silence sealed.

  The thoughts,the hopes,the dreams, the pleasures,

 whose charms are broken if revealed ."

-Jane Eyre.

It's happened again..

I'm writing this just minutes after having seen the report on the blasts in Delhi.

I don't intend to offer a solution or propose steps that the government ought to take, it's not my place to do so and I’m sure there are better minds than mine working on it.....does'nt seem to be working though...nonetheless, these are simply my views nothing else.

The memories of the tragedy's in B'lore and Surat and Ahemdabad haven’t yet faded and another disaster has struck. It’s almost as if the forces behind these acts began to think 'It's getting a little quiet. Time to stir it up again’. It’s almost as if they choose when and where to strike ,of course it does help that we're blessed with one of the most incompetent police forces around(I mean you'd think that after 20 yrs of having gone through the same thing year after year AND the whole punjab debacle behind them , they'd have learnt something, if nothing else just out of sheer practise!!)but then that's a story for another time.

The immediate course of action follows a very fixed pattern. All the so called tier 1 and tier 2 cities go on high alert , the history sheeter's are rounded up , the DIG's claim that they're doing all they can ,The Prime Minister appeals for calm while praising the 'Spirit' of the people(it would seem every city in India has great 'Spirit' , after all, all of them have been attacked!!), the Opposition calls for immediate action (but not before they've denounced the government and made their own case for the top job) ,George Bush calls it an 'Intolerable act of terrorism'(If its so intolerable how the hell do we go about tolerating it every single time????)  and of course the Icing on the cake ....our beloved neighbor’s  issue a statement that says they 'condemn' the blasts and express their 'solidarity' with the people of India. The amazing thing of course is that very often this little 'statement' gets released before our own PM's statement........it's seems they care deeply about us. 

The course of action that follows the immediate course of action too follows a fixed pattern......the cities drop their high alert status(it seems a general assumption that terrorists like to carry out their tasks only in the 4-5 days succeeding the blast and hence no extra security is needed beyond that period....)The news channel's drop it down from being headlines to being telecast somewhere between weather and sports. The police breathe a sigh of relief , they've now gone back from the pro-active state that the media attention forced onto them to the reactive state that they usually exist in .The politicians choose to forget about it...the Government does it coz of course it's a failure on their part...the rest forget coz in some twisted incomprehendable way it affects their vote bank  .The people slowly forget about it  coz ofcourse India's playing Australia or Sri Lanka or someone and SRK's new movie is gonna release next week(Dont agree with me??Try naming the main accused in the Surat blasts .............didn’t get it???dont worry , we're all in the same boat.) This ofcourse continues until the next blast happens....then we're back to square one.

Something needs be done , of that i'm sure....what though ,i don't  know  and i'm not gonna loose sleep over it either.

That is ofcourse assuming that something IS done .

 

P.S. NDTV 24X7 tickr , 9:11 p.m--"20 killed in Delhi serial Blasts.PM appeals for calm ."..It begins.. 

60 yrs young...

Right....Independence day........the Tricolor’s been rediscovered...every second bloke on orkut has it as his profile pic.....the first word that pop's up in my idle brain.......'Hypocrites'....
Don’t get me wrong ... in fact, I like to think of myself as a patriot....why only the 2nd week of August, show the reverence 365 days a year......
There's no particular reason that I wrote out this blog.....just that I’m getting a little tired of seeing this sudden surge in patriotism ,which i can't help but think is more than a little put-on. After all aren't we the one's who on all day's, except the 15th of Aug of course, crib and whine about the lack of this and the lack of that.......that the roads aren’t good enough, that there's not enough electricity, that there's not enough water going around....complainant’s are good....it's damn good, a lot of it ought to be done or no one’s gonna get off their ass and work. It’s just that when we do whine all I would ask is that people remember how young we are.......at 60 yrs we're barely a teenager among nations......to be asked to compete with superpower's at this point of time is like asking a 13 yr old to clear the JEE. Not impossible....just improbable.

And so too to our credit as a country, despite our internal struggles, we're doing just that, competing with the big boys, and scaring them real good.....Still, understand that mistakes will be made ,that there will be hiccups, there will be stumble's and even falls ,that over the next 10 possibly even 20 years, the so-called superpower's will always be a step ahead of us....and the simple reason for that....their history as a nation measures in the centuries, while we're as I just said, 60.And then look at the countries that gained independence at around the same time as us....Africa as a whole is in shambles....and our north-western neighbor’s are going to end up facing a civil war if they aren't careful. No, I think we've done pretty well for ourselves.

Economics isn’t my subject and the business section of the newspaper is as good as Greek to me. But what I do understand and so too would most people I suspect, that we need to be patient......not complacent, never complacent, just patient. It is after all just a matter of time .A nation of one billion cannot be kept silent....will not be kept silent. We’re gonna be claiming our pedestal soon enough, that I could stake my life on.....but we do have to be careful that we don't end up tripping on our own shoelaces.