Now, 6 days after the Mumbai massacre, everyone who is anyone seems to have known or have had some information about the occurrence of such an attack for months !
We get to read that Maharashtra's deputy CM knew about it 4 months back, the Navy knew about it, IB knew about it, RAW knew about it, the fishermen's union knew about it, the turtles on the beach knew about it, even Bejan Daruwala claims to have known that such an incident would occur: this he inferred by looking at the stars, moons, comets and the cows in the by-lanes.
My only question: if so many people knew about it, then why wasn't anything done? It seems like only you and me are the ignorant ones in the country; everyone else seems to have known that such a thing would happen. Like expecting a movie release, or a solar eclipse. And all these people are calling the leaders 'toothless', 'careless' while they could themselves have helped to make these people look toothed and careful, by helping them out with information.
Be it as it may be, two things seem clear - either people knew about it and wished to remain quiet, or this was a genuine intelligence failure where no one knew pretty much anything. If its the latter(which I think it is), then the govt can draw a new intelligence strategy and beef it up with the technologies and minds required. But if it's the former, then our country is in grave danger. The mindset of the people is in question then. Whoever knew about it and helped this dirty cause, or even let it carry on without reporting it to the authorities, has traded his/her country off for some material benefit. It can be for a new boat, a promotion, obscene amounts of money, an oil-well or a Russian blonde.
The mindset of the people has to change, that is the only true way in which we can shield ourselves from any attack ever. This can only be done through education. Look at our country's literacy rate. It is still down there, and a lot needs to be done to improve it. But why don't politicians do anything about it ?
It is not difficult to realise why - It's because the more intelligent a voter gets, the tougher it is for a party to get his vote. An illiterate will vote for you if you give him a mere bottle of liquor, and a pack of biryani. If he learns more, he will bargain for better, won't he? If he is poor and uneducated, he will remain poor, his next generation will also remain poor. He will continue to believe in the false promises each political party makes, not being able to understand what's actually going on.
Look at countries which started at par with us when we got independence...Just see where they are now. Its only after a country has achieved development at the grass-root levels, that it makes sense to send stuff to the Moon or Mars or Krypton. Wouldn't you agree?
But, not doing what we always do, let us, ourselves, start paying close attention to what is going on around us.Let us be sensitized to our environments; let us be aware. If we get the hint of anyone being involved in something shady, let us not ignore it? And as for ourselves getting involved in something shady, think again - is it worth putting our country in jeopardy for a few more shillings.
4 comments:
Very much true indeed!!
The first step should be unity among all the people...so that the internal havoc could be dealt with.
I got a forwarded SMS saying “Where is Raj Thakare and what is his ‘brave’ sena doing? The commandos and Anti Terrorist Sqad who came to Mumbai to fight the terrorists are mostly North Indians and South Indians!!…..”
So those who erupt havoc just to grab attention and make a rash political influence for selfish political growth should be taken care of too, as they are even more dangerous than outsiders.
The second step would be to plead the Govt., defence and all those who let this happen in spite of the border security patrolling and all, to wake up and do their duty not just for their job sake but for country sake!!
Those who have/need security personnel to roam around and give speeches/condolences need to stop either roaming around or having personal security guards so that more police force would be available in adversities.
And last but not the least, Corruption needs a very serious look!!
Nice macha... good post..
Shivraj Patil 's idiotic comment after blast:
"When i arrived at the site, terrorists had left already"
:p
Yes, Krypton is a better idea, send all these politicians there!
We will make our own world. And make that tortoise the chief of IB of India, and any Ramesh, Ganesh or Sunil the PM, they will rule better than thesse morons are doing!
One more think-Stop cribbing! Even after losing 200 lives, these bastards are still wasting their precious time in convincing "I don't know who??" that Pakistani hand is involved in all this!
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