shaken,grieved...she lives on

during the days when i wished to have my own blog...i used to think on wht could i possibly feed it with.writing abt things that usually fascinate me or some of my own experiences thats worth sharing was what i thgt could find a place in my blog.its now over a year or so and i guess i ve done justice to my own expectations or ideas.i would ve definitely not wished to write abt an incident that has left many people arnd the world baffled.but as always circumstances forces me to.
60 hrs of anxiety,loss of many innocent lives and loss of some of our finest cops was all it took for us to realise that our county isnt safe any more and that our leaders have all made a big fool of us.....or have we??....i was just among a billion more who were glued to our tv sets watching the entire operation...with sinking hearts and praying lips.with the death toll rising it was all but clear that our leaders have failed and have failed terribly.this case might have not got the international attention it has now received if it wasnt the foreigners who were among the ones held hostage.because in India,life is cheap.its just after all a very negligible reduction to our 1 billion strong population.the politicians still have a huge herd of fools left.at this time of crisis,its natural for us to feel insecure but the important point is when will we ever have to get rid of this insecurity blanket?.our politicians could have atleast made up the post terror period interesting with the blame game and fake resignation dramas.we ve had enuf of it.
mr.politician i sincerely hope that you dont get to see your loved one putting it up with one of those terrorists who is indiscriminately firing on hundreds of innocent people and could end up his life anytime.
mr politician i also hope that you dont get to hear your telephone ringing and understand what it is to be in that span of a minute.
mr.politician i also hope that you may not get to see your son being wrapped up in the tricolor.
mr. politician i sincerely wish that your house is not flanked by politicians with the media people to insult you by paying a ransom of a lakh rupees.
you are very queer folks indeed.folks who know nothing but money.there is life outside currencies mr.politician.you are the chosen one.we have chosen you to lead us and not bleed us.and i want to tell this to u mr.politiican...no one will turn away from the major's house coz none of your sons have even 1% of the patriotism,courage and commitment that this 30 yr old great chap has shown.he has stood in the front not wondering about his life,his dreams,his family or his fav.actors movie which he mite ve planned to go that weekend.he just thought he should save many innocent lives mr.politician.he just thought he shud be there doing his job.you reward people who shoot in olympic games with the ultimate luxuries of life.and wht ve u done to take care of these men who are actually shooting terrorists who mite have thgt of shooting one of your dear ones??.mr.raj thacekray,i am sorry but i would like to tell u that it were not the marathis alone in the nsg who were fighting these terrorists but in fact "indians" or "outsiders" as you may better know.maybe you were counting the no of marathi commandos involved in the operation but we were counting the no of dead indians and offering sympathies to their loved ones.
i dont actually want to say this again.people would have told this far more eloquently that what i am equipped to.but yes...we ve had enuf.we need actions and not words.we need leaders.we need peace.with attacks likes these my hope of a developed india seems nothing more than a fairy tale to me.will my children get to enjoy living in a land which people like mahatma gandhi,subash chandra bose,tilak and many others sacrificed their lives for??as for mumbai...you shake her,you destroy her...yet she lives on.and i love her.

faith

balaji