Tick.Tock.Tick.Tock...
"You know, this month I over achieved my target, will surely buy that music system by next month"... "Uncle, am sick of this, my parents are after my life to get married"... "It's my daughter's birthday today, bought new shoes for her"... "You know yaar, shadi ke baad life changes completely... am so happy"
Tick.tock...
Ear-splitting sound of death. Fire. Smoke. Screams. Terror.
Precisely for 11 minutes. 11 fucking minutes and it was all over. Over, for the families whose loved ones never returned their frantic calls. Hundreds of hopes, dreams and laughter got crumbled just like the metal walls and roofs crumbled like a piece of paper.
11/o7/2006. Mumbai Local Trains. 8 deadly explosions.
Once again the power of human mind has astonished me. Oh yes, what can't be achieved if one puts his mind to it. For certainly, those who planted these little soldiers of Satan have surely risen above all human emotions. Be it the debt-ridden widows, children with no future, young men without hands or crushed-in-stampede school kids, nothing deterred them from their motive. If there was any to begin with.
For what I know, they never had any. They were mere brain washed pawns triggered off in our direction, with a promise of solace and freedom.
And these pawns will keep coming our way until we stop. Until we stop our subconscious mind to discriminate people on the basis of religion, cast and class. Oh yeah, I know. You are an educated & civilized citizen. You never do such things. Remember the last time you muttered in your colleague’s ear why your boss prefers the guy of the same religion as his? Remember what you mumbled unconsciously when a neighboring country was beating us at the cricket match?
Yes my friend, deep down we all are biased and it reflects in our actions somehow or the other. It is this one side of the coin which the “guarantors of freedom and solace” show the impressionable minds and brain wash them. It is this unconscious act of ours that leaves the person on receiving end believing that offence is the only defense.
We have to remember, and if necessary hold our wavering thoughts by neck and make them understand that it is a few set off people who have nothing to do with any religion or caste that are doing this. We have to instill in our minds the difference between a person of other caste and a terrorist. We can’t keep on overlapping them both in our jokes and whiff off the helpless expression on ‘his’ face with an oh-that-was-only-a-joke pat.
And when we don’t give any more unnecessary junk as food for thought to these naïve minds, maybe then they will have better things to worry about and maybe then they will tell the ‘guarantors of freedom and solace’, “Go fuck your self, this is my country!”. And maybe then no more frantic call will be left unanswered for ever.
"You know, this month I over achieved my target, will surely buy that music system by next month"... "Uncle, am sick of this, my parents are after my life to get married"... "It's my daughter's birthday today, bought new shoes for her"... "You know yaar, shadi ke baad life changes completely... am so happy"
Tick.tock...
Ear-splitting sound of death. Fire. Smoke. Screams. Terror.
Precisely for 11 minutes. 11 fucking minutes and it was all over. Over, for the families whose loved ones never returned their frantic calls. Hundreds of hopes, dreams and laughter got crumbled just like the metal walls and roofs crumbled like a piece of paper.
11/o7/2006. Mumbai Local Trains. 8 deadly explosions.
Once again the power of human mind has astonished me. Oh yes, what can't be achieved if one puts his mind to it. For certainly, those who planted these little soldiers of Satan have surely risen above all human emotions. Be it the debt-ridden widows, children with no future, young men without hands or crushed-in-stampede school kids, nothing deterred them from their motive. If there was any to begin with.
For what I know, they never had any. They were mere brain washed pawns triggered off in our direction, with a promise of solace and freedom.
And these pawns will keep coming our way until we stop. Until we stop our subconscious mind to discriminate people on the basis of religion, cast and class. Oh yeah, I know. You are an educated & civilized citizen. You never do such things. Remember the last time you muttered in your colleague’s ear why your boss prefers the guy of the same religion as his? Remember what you mumbled unconsciously when a neighboring country was beating us at the cricket match?
Yes my friend, deep down we all are biased and it reflects in our actions somehow or the other. It is this one side of the coin which the “guarantors of freedom and solace” show the impressionable minds and brain wash them. It is this unconscious act of ours that leaves the person on receiving end believing that offence is the only defense.
We have to remember, and if necessary hold our wavering thoughts by neck and make them understand that it is a few set off people who have nothing to do with any religion or caste that are doing this. We have to instill in our minds the difference between a person of other caste and a terrorist. We can’t keep on overlapping them both in our jokes and whiff off the helpless expression on ‘his’ face with an oh-that-was-only-a-joke pat.
And when we don’t give any more unnecessary junk as food for thought to these naïve minds, maybe then they will have better things to worry about and maybe then they will tell the ‘guarantors of freedom and solace’, “Go fuck your self, this is my country!”. And maybe then no more frantic call will be left unanswered for ever.
posted by Ajitesh at 12:56 PM
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