Recently, Mumbai was attacked *again* by trained terrorists, who had just crossed their teens perhaps! Thats the level of brainwashing that these terrorists got as kids to reach adolescence with suicidal terror attacks! This happened at Taj, Oberoi-Trident, Nariman house, CST station and other random places. God only knows the kind of training these inhuman, retarded, creeps get in order to lose all sense of right and wrong. Or else, the media pimps... the sick TV channels with their gang of reporters, who would do anything for money or brownie points... must know the training that terrorists get. We saw, years back on TV, how the terrorist camps train their men through interviews. Where the media reaches, our IB, police, military cannot? Oh, sure they can. They knew most of these training outfits back then; now growing in a number that increases by the day. Ergo, the need of the hour is a large-scale, war-like, cleansing operation; however, that operation being a war within and without!
This kind of media has sold themselves out to the politicians, underworld, terrorists, other countries; they don't have any conscience, nationality, love-of-motherland, none of that. They were showing the coverage live on how our combat was going on for the terrorists to be informed live by their friends watching TV, on how many people are entering from where, with what ammunition, the tactics used, etc. Its like a free information source for the enemy. They were truly the terrorists' *eyes* as the movie A Wednesday voiced. These reporters have no restraint, respect for the ATS, NSG, army, navy or any authorities. Its not for no reason that our Navy chief blasted these reporters.
We need not be US by calling wars as police action or compare everything to US by calling all terrorist attacks on us as "India's 911". What the heck is India's 911? Thats precisely what our media called it! India was a terrorist target since a long time and its story didn't change post 911. I do not understand this desperate need for India to get the world's attention; and by world, I mean US, since the other countries don't exist post US bombing Iraq, a war that went against UN approval! On one TV channel, an interviewer had Indian, Israeli, Pakistani and US/British authorities on a debate over "India being taken seriously by the world" over terrorist attacks. What a topic! Imagine a sovereign country needing approval from "other" countries to take action against terrorists bombing the country through and through, knowing well that the source of terrorism being the next door neighbour! Israeli security expert quite clearly said that no one's going to take India seriously, unless India takes itself seriously. That was from a country that walked the talk, always. He meant that what needs doing, needs to be done. Where does the question of others appreciating or according what you do arise to protect your countrymen?
Funnily enough, most of the TV channels called in to interview and opine who they thought were experts in the area: film makers!!!!! What is the authority of Mahesh Bhatt, Sanjana Kapoor and like on the subject??? Interestingly, Sanjana voiced that we shouldn't be calling it a war because in a war we know who's the enemy, here we don't. Well, did Sanjana know sitting in her cosy house that our security experts, on their toes at the moment, didn't know who the attackers were? In what capacity did she have such information? Of all the terrorist attacks made on India since Kashmir dispute, don't we know who's been behind them? Well, in any case, with or without the knowledge of people you were fighting, the scale was warlike and was in fact a war. If it wasn't, it should lead to one. How long will we try to tag ourselves as a country that never attacked anyone; although such a war would be a defence, not an attack? What did we gain for showing such resilience? More attacks, perhaps!
Both of these film/ stage personalities had the brains to blabber some more nonsense when faced with the question whether they'd agree to have more security checks at airports, etc. They said that there are ways to keep the security intact without additional individual checks or frisking! The only people who would refuse to be checked at critical entry points are the people who are involved in some kind of illegal or immoral activities or those that live secret lives for shameful reasons. There's no better explanation to it. Imagine the IQ level of people who voice such things, who do not want to give away some of their privacy for the safety of the country; also imagine the IQ level of the people who interview such people on the crucial matters such as India's safety! These people not only do not understand the meaning of democracy but also abuse the system. There's something that you can do to voice this... sign petition here please.
It was voiced by a British security expert that, just because the attackers are proven to have come from Pakistan, doesn't mean that Pakistan knew about it and is to be held responsible! Interesting; very absurd reasoning coming from a country that went ahead and bombed the life out of Iraq on account of WMDs and then "apologized" calling it a *bluff*, but interesting. The logic went on.. just because 911 terrorists were Saudi nationals didn't mean that US should attack Saudi. Wrong thinking, isn't it? What is important is not whether the country knows that their nationals are attacking others but whether they are housing their training camps, willfully still. If there's no cleansing of known outfits, its got to be willful support then. If there is willful support, there has to be a hand in terrorism.
Striking another chord, the religious vote-bank politics of not punishing the people that are held in a terrorist attack, let alone those that pop-up during follow-on investigations, has made the political power in this country stoop to such a disgusting level that no person in India feels safe when the country is led by such people, not only outside but even indoors! On one TV channel, the party in opposition was questioned for having searched for ideology and/ or religion behind terrorism here. The reply was interesting... I will name the person and party since I personally see it as the only hope for India's sane survival, it was BJP's spokesperson Chari. He replied that its incorrect not to talk of religion behind these terrorist attacks, since the very partition of the nation into two countries was on the basis of religion!!! See the irony?
I've just a couple more points to make, which is what I feel to be the somehow related and possibly the root cause of our insecure existence today. Our political system has given birth to a corrupt lifestyle not only among government servants at all levels from the peon to the highest, but also among regular public. Most of us will not care about what the repercussions are of a small immoral act for some kind of a bribe, be it sharing secure information from within the company/ institution, secrets of one another, lending a hand to steal, not being a responsible citizen by reporting first hand suspicious behaviour, not taking timely action on anything, or whatever. When we have to compare with countries, we should do so for their moral development... the country's worth lies in taking care of its own people, be it against other countries or the bad men within. We don't learn from countries such as US and UK that have less corruption or that they don't just lie about anything and everything the way we do! This kind of corrupt and untruthful behaviour is what poses a threat to graduate into a bigger unsolvable problem. A corrupt person at any level is a definite threat to the nation's security.
vande mAtaram
2 comments:
IM
I do understand the emotional upheaval you (and possibly everyone) is going through - particularly those of us who have no home but Mumbai - whichever part of the world we stay in. Butlet us look to the future not to the past.
This one event is singularly poised to change the history from here onwards.
The World War 3 has already started years ago - The first two world wars were about imperialism, facism, deomcracy and freedom. They were clearly decalred with the Axis and Allied powers and countries taking explicit sides.
The WW3 has not been overtly declared - but it exists since years. The two sides are not clearly defined but are consisting of the same Good and Bad / Life and Death / Darkness and Light. The facists are not bound by countries, armies, uniforms and languages.
Pakistan is too small a player in this. To think of an insignificant Pakistan as an enemy is the insult to intelligence of Indians and to everyone on the right side. At most it is an irritant.
Many of us think that the divisions are by religion - with Islam being on the wrong side - I totally disagree with that. There is good and bad in every religion, caste creed. But that is a separate topic and we can talk about it later.
The fact is the Mumbai events were not any 9-11 - they were equivalent to the sinking of the USS Lusitania and the Pearl Harbour in the earlier World Wars. Those events woke up a sleeping America and She destroyed her enemies beyong any recognition. I hope the Mumbai events wake up each and every Indian across the world. We have to think that if Shri Samartha Ramdas Swami were here today, what would he have advised to the youth of India?
Concluding, I feel terrorism is like Malaria. You can kill individual mosquitoes when they try to bite you - but that is not enough. To eradicate Malaria, you have to clean - or destroy - all the backwaters where mosquitoes spawn.
Unfortunately this is not going to be done by blogs and by tweets or forwarded emails or electronic petitions. The ease of communicating in this electronic world has only made this Maya appear too strong for us. We rave and rant and throw out our emotions in this illusory world and then it is back to our daily grinds anyways. What is the way ahead? What is the price to pay?
One must not forget that only true Sanyasis like Samartha Ramdas and Swami Vivekanda and Shri Shankaracharya were able to bring out a resurgence in the real world. Just some candles here and there wont do.
Regards
Gotya
@Rajiv: I'm inline with most of what you say. These reporters are not interested in anything unglamorous for the sake of brownie points and given money, they are capable of hiding facts, showing partial coverage or even making their own stories!
@Gotya: WW-III was an interesting perspective. Unfortunately, most of these individual wars have not fallen in sync to have two disparate parties yet.
Next, its not so much about religion being bad, but all said and done, any religion that *interferes* with another religion(s), be it via conversion or by cruelty/ killing, is either misunderstood or is sheer wrong.
The electronic petition linked on the blog is only for the reporters/ TV channels to appreciate the gravity of the situation and observe restraint. Obviously, that won't work for terror. Anyhow, you seem to mix up Maya and actions in the same voice; the daily grinds too are part of the same delusive world that rave/rant/emotions, way-ahead and price-to-pay are! Those who sees the world as illusory hardly concern themselves with the price to pay.
Lastly, I've trouble seeing Samartha, Sw. Vivekananda and Acharya in the same light as you do. Here's why:
i) Samartha was Shivaji Maharaj's guru as well, in which role He served the purpose of a brAhmaNa teaching the kshatriya king, but it can never be His true-saMnyAsi image. That image reflects only in the works such as dAsbodh and manAce shloka.
ii) Sw. Vivekananda (SV) was a voice of Hindu India against upcoming christian missionaries and to that effect, it was a religious affair; on the spiritual side, it was neo-vedAnta to appease the westerners. To this day, Ramakrishna ashram that SV established is called Ramakrishna *Mission* and not ashram or maTh. It was very much needed to be done in that age. But, apologies, I fail to see either of the actions as a true saMnyAsi spirit.
iii) A final point please and thats the only point I'll make about Acharya. What you term as "real world", in the para where you talk of Bhagavatpada Shankaracharya, is a contradiction in terms; there's no *real* world, since He terms it as jagat mithyA. :)
Thanks both.
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