Forgive me for the extra K if it not okay. The lone terrorist survivor(nay ranger by media's grace) of 26-11 Mumbai terror attacks is certainly not expected to be on a roll in rigorous imprisonment. But the media is certainly worried how he looks like now. Lost weight, grew wan and darker in complexion and all the time appearing overly stressed out. The media seems to condone his dastardly acts of killing 50 plus innocent civilians in Mumbai and is hellbent on iconization. In a one-off situation, even I felt sorry for the man. This makes me write that we should have a wax statue of Kasab at Madam Tussauds so that the media gets a new pic. The seem to be bored with the older ones.
With Bollyuwood flick already lined up with a proper rationale given by the director and some Varma playing the lead role of Kasab, Indian government seems to be in no hurry to bring the perperators of 26-11 to books. Notwithstanding the almost weekly soundbites of Pranab Mukherjee in an English replete with heavy Bengali intonation, the focus is now more on the upcoming elections and we have forgotten everything as if it happened in the days of Mahmood Ghaznavi, the marauder with 17 invasions on India(979-1030). Bollywood's 'Ghazini' is more talked about, which is not to take the credit away from the really secular Bollywood and the scintillating living legends viz Bollywood Badshah Khans.
Advani is talking about soft secularism. Now what is that? Where is the point of raking up Ram Temple issue in these troubled economic times and targeting innocent and comparatively economically downtrodden Muslims by dint of stupid communal bigotry. Enough is enough. When can we have a truly secular and strong nation? Why do we want Pakistan to be reactive? Why can't we be proactive in weeding out terrorism of any kind just like Israel and the US of A do. There are certain extremeties done but we cannot do away with these. This is a Hobson's choice given the fact that government's inertia wil make all Indians of any religion vulnerable to terror attacks. Terrorism per se has no religion and terrorists are pseudo-religious misguided missiles many a times. But they have to be destroyed for the sake of humanity. We cannot be like the inert noble gases and perish as a consequence of it. We have to fight. Yes, we can!
Monday, February 9, 2009
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