India Shining.. or Burning Bright??

Hey I am back,
Wish i could say this with a lot of gust and in the old 'gung-ho' way.. but no.. i guess i am back on the blog after a loooooong spell of silence for various reasons and today i have got back to the blog for a reason. To all my friends, folks and pals out there who like to read my blog....i beseech each one of you to take out a little time to think of what we can give back to the nation for the little that it may have done.

I agree that it is a very easy task to say that 'what have the nincompoops sitting as lame ducks in the ministry of high officials done for us' , it is even more stress- busting, if i may put it that way, if we could actually thrash a few like crushed paper into the waste paper basket or see them flushed out of the toilets like toilet paper; but today, after carefully monitoring the progress of the "WAR ON MUMBAI" , i have neither been able to get the sights of my mind, nor flush the lame ministers and lambast them and feel better..

There is a poignant feeling of depression and responsibility that i am feeling towards this city and the country as a whole. It is a feeling that we, as in the educated class is silently taking the brunt and allowing more of it to happen. Fathom a situation of last evening, 2 well dressed, young militants start shooting at the famous 'Victoria Terminus'. It is one station where while during my project days, have counted the number of feet crossing a square foot within a minute. It was close to 30 feet crossing a square foot in a minute, so if i were to calculate the area of the station and the peak hours and the number of people who were there, we were much larger in number than the 2 "EQUIPPED AND ARMED" youngsters, but the sheer crowd and the mob could have just overpowered them!! Sad, but the mob, that rarely forgets its power in this country, except for times of strike and bull shitting, like the great Union Bandh, could do nothing last evening, but run. I agree that that is the first reaction, but coming to think of it, for the amount of time the young fearless warriors of death were there, the mob could have manifested itself into a huge pythonic creature, way beyond the imagination of anybody and over powered them with a little intelligence...(This is my personal thought, comments welcome) Unfortunately, most of us do not realise, or rather fail to see the Freudians theory of the mob culture. They are the strongest- you can never beat them.

It is time, we thought of why we do not manifest ourselves into ugly creatures to save the better world? The answer is simple and heart renching. We have been slaves way too far. Slaves to corruption, dishonesty and bureaucracy. We do not have the courage to stand up to it, because we find it easier to run and get stomped by it. Unfortunately, a few of us realise that the terrorists who have these attacks read the minds of people way too well before they plan their attacks. They know us better then we knowing ourselves.

Now coming to the fact that leave alone the common man who walks the streets of the country, our own ministers had to see/ discuss and then decide if they ever had to come to Mumbai. I again do not blame them here. They have the wicked potion of politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner and are consumed by the glory of power way too much to see the misery around them. I again blame the country and the people for not standing uptogether against these "unintelligent bunch of jokers" that we vote for every time into power.

Every rainy season in Mumbai and there is a PIL that is registered against the BMC for the miserable work that they have done. Has any one of us bothered to collect/ gather people and take this forward. NO. Today, we have advertisements indicating "Jago re" and a lot more of such satirical ways to instill some sort of petty guilt in the minds of people like me who never vote, because i strongly believe that there is NO ONE TODAY in the country who is worthy of my vote. Can any one voice that back. Yes.. i could - with a small article on my blog, may be tomorrow i shall write a Letter to the Editor.. like what i used to do in the name of Priyanka K, during the infamous days of my college. ;)) Just gaining a thrill to let the world know at last.. who Priyanka K was... hehe...

That was a vain attempt there to ease myself out. Nevertheless, todays incident in Mumbai is a lesson for the bunch of fools who get voted by us and an incident- that NONE of us should ever forget or forgive. I do not ask of you to become terrorists, but yes, the least we can do for our country is to stand as one and question our right!!

Hope you are able to grasp the wavelength of my feeling for the nation and hope and pray that we are able to act soon on some issues for the country

JAI HIND!!