Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Terrorism Makes India Bleed Again

The “Trust Vote” drama was just over, with the people of India convinced that it was going to be the only hot topic of discussion for some time now. And soon they were proved to be wrong. There arrived another hot topic of discussion, so hot that the Indian people would have been happy if it did not appear.

A bunch of “committed” and “dedicated” terrorists, “determined” to achieve objectives that only they can understand, came up with the “heroic” deed of carrying out blasts in the two cities located in two different parts of India, one being Bangalore in the southern India and the other being Ahmedabad in western India. The natural end result was the loss of several innocent lives, along with lots of injured people going through a traumatic experience in various hospitals and nursing homes.

As usual the government has suddenly become hyper active, with the police forces of different states, intelligence agencies, etc. working overtime to catch the culprits. Our honourable ministers from the Union Home Ministry are visiting the affected areas “to take stock of the situation” (does a person overnight become an expert after becoming a minister?), and then briefing the media about their “carefully structured” course and plan of action. The media has now concentrated its entire focus on this issue, with enthusiastic and hard working correspondents of various TV channels tracking all the relevant developments round-the-clock. The former heads of police, intelligence agencies, self-styled defence experts, etc are appearing in various TV shows to share their “rich experience” in fighting terrorism, with “valuable suggestions” about how the menace can be curbed. There are innumerable articles in various newspapers, offering “in-depth” discussion on the exact nature of the problem, highlighting various socio-economic-political factors behind it and ways to address the latter.


However, we all know that all these will go on only for few days. Very soon everything will be “back to normalcy”, with the unfortunate incidents completely out of people’s mind. We will get back to our callous and indifferent attitude towards terrorism and other disruptive activities, waiting to be shaken up by another repetition of such heinous acts.

6 comments:

Ankur said...

any solution for this problem?

Surendran said...

for a moment i thought i have been redirected to my blog itself :)

in my opinion, whatever is being done today as a remedy for this problem will not take us anywhere close to a proper solution...

Anijay said...

At last, found somebody interested in politics and writing about it at Delhibloggers.

Upright view. Carry on.

Strated writing a couple of them, but somehow Hv to squeeze in time to continue doing that.

Regards,
Anijayhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/anijay_007

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Open any newspaper every muslim intelligentia blames the society for the muslim isolation. But they never do a contemplation to see that 50% mistake are with them. When they donot want to accept their mistake how will they correct it. Following are my dispassionate perception about the riase in fundamentalism including muslim, hindu and christians :

Has any person done soul searching for the sudden raise of hindu militancy. All newspaper love to talk an utopian ideal without looking into the true reason for the raise. Common hindu has started supporting hindu radicals. That is the truth. However every hindu abhors violence. I request you to publish this as part of your letter editor making correction where ever required without removing the content of the email.

1. Muslim does not want to be part of the society and they want to be separate in all aspect.
2. Double standards of civil law whereever it suits and sharia where they want
What did the muslim community do the shah bano case. What is wrong in a old lady getting an alimony.
Sachar committee is quoted for muslim backwardness and no assistance from government. I am a son of a poor hindu and i have not seen any thing from
government but for lip service. We were sibling of five, however three of the sibling have two children and two have one child. If the muslim chose to have multiple
wife and multiple children without the capability to support what can any body do. They do the
greatest injustice to the country in the bring up the denominator and the per capita income.
Modernization of the madrassa.
3. When hindus were killed and displaced at kashmir not even a word of sympathy and rallying, so how do u expect the reverse.
4. Global village and communication : Hindus who visit all over the world see the discrimination against hindus in western countries and gcc countries respectively in
favour of christians and muslim. That is the reason, why modi got maximum funding and support of NRI all over the whole for his victory. Every hindus thing that
atleast there must be acountry for oneself. Might be an insecurity but that is the feeling
5. Affinity of the indian muslim towards muslim ummah. However no practice neither by the ummah nor by the Indian muslim. Show me one case of a rich gcc girl
marrying indian muslim. If a muslim in kashmir believes on islamic ummah he would not create just a problem which will create problem for crores of muslim in
the mainstream india. Tribe is caste equivalent in islamic world and their affinity for that is greater than religion and country.

6. A question to muslim, why is that the parsi's, jews [ orginated from middle east ], jains and buddhist could live peacefully in india and not the muslim. India is one
country which had not persecuted any religion under any rule, but for muslim rule where jazi was paid as tax by hindus.
7. If hindus would work to remove bad practices like untouchability, sati etcc. what is the role of moderate muslims in the last few decades on reforms.
8 You might say about the fatwa issued against terrorim in delhi. Too late, too little and it is perceived by the whole world as lip service.
9. Religion mixing with politics. It was done by muslim cleric as tool of political blackmail of congress and secular party. Now if the whole 60% decide to vote for a
party what will few percentage matters.

These are perception and if you have fairness try to write an article on the same, even if you do i would not know whether your establishment will allow this to happen.

Though of few word about muslim so called intelligentia :

1. First loves to show their face to media
2. Leave the poor to the clerics. No conviction of taking their views to the masses and get them to moderate view rather than they go to the hands to religious fanatism.
3. Ask for reservation as dalit muslim where islam talks about universal brother hood and no caste.

I tried to publish this in a forum called karuthu and was not allowed by moderate. I expect the same from newspaper also if not, i will suprised as a voice of hindu is commualism in the pseudo secular world.

Anonymous said...

The new argument by certain new founded intellectuals,Pseudo Secularists and certain politically (chronic) biased media like CNN-IBN and NDTV etc.in India arguing that poverty and opression of minortiy community is the root cause of the Islamic Terrorism.

Being a fellow citizen of this country,I absoultely rubbish those arguments.It is again just an escapism to put the blame always on Hindu Majority.

India remains one of the poorest countries in the world today.750 Million people are in utter poverty in this country. Does it mean that all of them are terrorists or they think adapting to terrorism can take away their poverty??

Look at Pakistan, A purely Islamic nation, today that country is flooded with terrorists and extremists.Bombs are exploded there and human lives are being lost everyday. Is it because of poverty? Is it because of so called “oppression of minority there”? People should think about it.The root cause of this terrorism is Dirty politics being played in respective countries for personal gains by certain section of politicians and religious fundamentalists. Nothing else.

Pakistan initiated the terrorism for political bargaining and they will end with it because it is now out of any one’s control. “Those who live with Sword would die with it”

Contradictory, being an Islamic nation Malaysia is a good exemption why because the prosperity in that country and there development and national integrity comes first Not crooked politics.

Just by comparing Malaysia and Pakistan one could easily differentiate why terrorism sustains and why not. Even being autocratic, in certain GCC (not the whole Middle East) countries, do bomb explodes there??? Is there human lives are lost so freely and intermittently???

As long as you appease and appease a certain community for political gain this phenomenon will continue. No doubt. India is the best example.

Implement the UNIFORM CIVIL CODE and treat all citizens equally irrespective of their religion,cast,creed etc.thereby appeasement,
vote bank politics ,accusations of oppression,suppression etc. will stop, till then it will bleed.

That day I can say India will be a Superpower.

Pseudo Secular Congress politicians, comic politicians like Lalu,Paswan,Mulayam etc.(there is no shortage in this country)and Shabnam Hashmi,John Dayal like crooked social activists should stop abusing people of Hindu religion or the so called “Majority”.

Khair ul Alam said...

I couldn't help feeling a bit amused when I read Renjith Nair saying "Look at Pakistan, A purely Islamic nation ...". I wouldn't be more amused if I read something like "Look at China, A purely communist nation, ..."
I am sure many Pakistanis would feel flattered to read this from someone who obviously seems to have a profound dislike for their country.