Lehman gone bust, Merill Lynch sold and Fed bailing out AIG. Global cues are very disappointing. In India, terror strikes are commoner and it has become a euphemism to say that the spirit of the target city is as vibrant as ever despite the attacks. If newly n-powered Indian capital is not safe, what to say of the rest? Government is still soft on everything and the politicians are behaving like selfish cowards interested only in vote banks. It's a truism that while tackling terrorism, the government always appears as either partisan or too soft. Shivraj Patil showed his sartorial elegance in full flow that evening(that of Delhi blasts) by changing clothes thrice within few hours for addressing the media to deliver soundbites on his take on the terror attacks in India. The minority community is not to be blamed for Islamist militancy because it has been at the receiving ends in most of the cases and it is only a misguided section in any community that is responsible. That actually does more harm to the reputation of their own community for which they are willing to lay down and take innocent lives. The victims in any terrorist activity do not belong to any faith. They are just human beings. But we are prejudiced to see only one side of the coin. The appeasement policies of the government have done little good to the minority community in any social sphere. They need better amenities and care in the real sense. Educate them more, give them better jobs and last but not least please trust their patriotism or allegiance. Let us not forget Abdul Hamid, Ashfaqullah Khan, Begum Hazrat, Annie Besant, Bhagat Singh and the rest who are the rolemodels for any Indian patriot. They did not belong to the dominant majority community. The same trust should be given to the Maoists, Naxalites, ULFA, LTTE or any other warring outfit. Meaningful dialogues might work wonders.
On-the-cricket-front, Ozs have full right to raise security concerns as Indian security scenario now seems no different from that in Pakistan, which has perhaps rightfully pointed out the discrimination carried on security pretexts. India is now on a similar path.
God knows who will take care of our materialistic accumulations when the security could be sabotaged as per the will of the terrorists. The economy is already in a jeopardy because of global slowdown and now our families are not safe too. What will we do with the dollars, yens, euros, or simply any other basket of currency? Amitabh Bacchan did not miss the opportunity to say in his blog that Abhishek Bacchan could have been the hapless victim of terror blasts in Delhi as he was in CP that evening. The poor have lost the will to say anything. They are much too bored now with the daily miseries.
However, love is even more required now to end hatred. Let everyone feel the peace within and outside. Amen!
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I indeed agree with the raktabh sir view that all of the demolition whether this is economical or life lossess in form of delhi blast shake the very belief that peolple are safe .....
Thanks Amit for agreeing to the fact that on-the-economic-front, investors' are jittery and socially we do not feel safe. The security machinery seems to have become dysfunctional and helpless. It is high time we pulled up our socks indiviually too and try combat terrorism in our own little ways- by force or by acting as a pacifist.
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