About a month back, I was just roaming around on the streets of Hyderabad when I saw some tricolors lying on the street...collected them and put 'em in my bag...standing by was a group of 2 -3 youngsters giggling...I asked to myself...was that the COMMON MAN laughing...I don't know but I just hoped my responsible actions acted positively on them....now that's something to brag about..Moving on....
What really bothers me a great deal these days is the ever increasing violence in our country be it Malegaon,Assam, Gujarat and even Delhi! and the frequency of it has been astounding..and what bothers me even more is lukewarm response of the leadership at the highest level to this fiasco...and the accusation of unworthy saints like Pragya,VHP leaders,senior army personnel(Malegaon blasts) and now the tacit political approval of the same by BJP leaders is like adding insult to injury and leaves us with only one screaming question...what in GOD'S NAME are these people doing.???..Planting bombs to kill innocent INDIAN civilians and how does camera-shy MANMOHAN Singh or sweaty palms SHIVRAJ Patil respond to this...setting up meetings to give a set of guidelines for every situation or issuing regret statements just in time,which they can brag about during elections!!!...One thing I would like to clarify after mentioning Prime Minister's name is that he's not totally at fault because most of the serial blasts had been planned out of Pakistan's frustration over INDIA's makeover at the world level which(PAKISTAN) by-the-way is out of ideas how to deal with the imploding extremist organisations (which it has fed and incubated over the years), of course, because of its war on terror with the US. BUT it does point out at serious Intelligence lapse ..Sitting in the bus I got this vague idea of how easy it had become to gerrymander this secular country on the very grounds which differentiate us from PAKISTAN(and because of which SHEIKH ABDULLAH,the charismatic Kashmiri leader wanted JAMMU & KASHMIR to be a part of INDIA)...and if you ponder over it for a while,I bet you and I won't differ..but as I discussed earlier in my " INDIA: A SECULAR STATE" blog,the reasons are not hard to find...WHAT WE NEED IS CHANGE...as US PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA rightly pointed out to and won ...Its not that we don't know the reasons...the real fact is that we are the common man and the common man is gullible...he won't go beyond what can be seen and when he does CORRUPTION goes down(Price Waterhouse Coopers - due to Right to Information Act ).BUT the CHANGE in mentality, in sentiments,in education and all ways in which it can be...is to inspire the common man and it always took a leader to inspire which unfortunately are extremely numbered in today's times...Leaders like BARACK OBAMA have that power..these are charismatic leaders like YASSER ARAFAT, DALAI LAMA,MAHATMA GANDHI...VLADIMIR PUTIN,HUGO CHAVEZ...if you are searching for fresh examples...now that would be something to brag about...not the figures of how many muslims slain and the numbers in response......Well educated/well read LEADERS and NOT puppets are a must...Leaders with positive energy can change a lot as we have seen in the past and "history always teaches us,it is we who never learn from it"...ALSO, I would love to see the INDIAN MEDIA come up with some positive picture and not just the grim ones so that common man gets cloyed with NATIONALISM AND SECULARISM and start taking PRIDE in being INDIAN.
What really bothers me a great deal these days is the ever increasing violence in our country be it Malegaon,Assam, Gujarat and even Delhi! and the frequency of it has been astounding..and what bothers me even more is lukewarm response of the leadership at the highest level to this fiasco...and the accusation of unworthy saints like Pragya,VHP leaders,senior army personnel(Malegaon blasts) and now the tacit political approval of the same by BJP leaders is like adding insult to injury and leaves us with only one screaming question...what in GOD'S NAME are these people doing.???..Planting bombs to kill innocent INDIAN civilians and how does camera-shy MANMOHAN Singh or sweaty palms SHIVRAJ Patil respond to this...setting up meetings to give a set of guidelines for every situation or issuing regret statements just in time,which they can brag about during elections!!!...One thing I would like to clarify after mentioning Prime Minister's name is that he's not totally at fault because most of the serial blasts had been planned out of Pakistan's frustration over INDIA's makeover at the world level which(PAKISTAN) by-the-way is out of ideas how to deal with the imploding extremist organisations (which it has fed and incubated over the years), of course, because of its war on terror with the US. BUT it does point out at serious Intelligence lapse ..Sitting in the bus I got this vague idea of how easy it had become to gerrymander this secular country on the very grounds which differentiate us from PAKISTAN(and because of which SHEIKH ABDULLAH,the charismatic Kashmiri leader wanted JAMMU & KASHMIR to be a part of INDIA)...and if you ponder over it for a while,I bet you and I won't differ..but as I discussed earlier in my " INDIA: A SECULAR STATE" blog,the reasons are not hard to find...WHAT WE NEED IS CHANGE...as US PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA rightly pointed out to and won ...Its not that we don't know the reasons...the real fact is that we are the common man and the common man is gullible...he won't go beyond what can be seen and when he does CORRUPTION goes down(Price Waterhouse Coopers - due to Right to Information Act ).BUT the CHANGE in mentality, in sentiments,in education and all ways in which it can be...is to inspire the common man and it always took a leader to inspire which unfortunately are extremely numbered in today's times...Leaders like BARACK OBAMA have that power..these are charismatic leaders like YASSER ARAFAT, DALAI LAMA,MAHATMA GANDHI...VLADIMIR PUTIN,HUGO CHAVEZ...if you are searching for fresh examples...now that would be something to brag about...not the figures of how many muslims slain and the numbers in response......Well educated/well read LEADERS and NOT puppets are a must...Leaders with positive energy can change a lot as we have seen in the past and "history always teaches us,it is we who never learn from it"...ALSO, I would love to see the INDIAN MEDIA come up with some positive picture and not just the grim ones so that common man gets cloyed with NATIONALISM AND SECULARISM and start taking PRIDE in being INDIAN.
