Saturday, November 29, 2008

I want my Mumbai back......!!!!

Please stop calling us "RESILIENT MUMBAIKARS" now....It sounds more like a mockrey of us rather than praise...Brave Mumbaikars,spirts of mumbaikars......&blah blah....
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH......we are not in the mood to take any more of it...right since 1993 riots to 28 July 2003(ghatkopar),then 11 of July 2006(train blasts)......&now 26 of November 2008.....what are we waiting for????Another taj,oberoi massacre???
Yes!we are resiliant....to every day struggle...struggle to burn our kitchen fuels,struggle to get into the crowded trains,struggle against deluge.....but these barbaric,cold blooded mayhem....no ways...not any more...
Will the authorities wake up,atleast after all this??will they stop playing the shameless,insensitive,political blame games atleast during these difficult hours???
WILL THINGS CHANGE AFTER THIS INCIDENT???
will our securities enact stringency???
Is the government going to learn a lesson from this & REMEMBER it???Or every thing will be forgotten as is always done???
Let me remind every one of us that this wasn't an action movie or a 3 day cricket match,just to be watched,get entertained & forget.....
"We are resiliant by force & not by choice.....They(terrorists) should not take our tolerance as our weakness"
We pay tribute to the martyrs....we owe u...but let me remind the authorities that their lives are precious.......

Sunday, November 9, 2008

When?

Last evening i heard a song from an old Manoj Kumar movie.It said,
"Jab zero diya mere BHARAT ne,duniya ko tab ginti ayi......taron ki bhasha BHARAT ne,duniya ko pehle sikhlayi..."
&so on with the firsts INDIA has produced....
Certainly was filled with pride as,i am an INDIAN too.But today morning while going through the newspapers,saw the Obama news & a thought struck me....Why are we so obsessed with America?What happens there?What say they have?Why are our newspapers so filled with their news 10,000 miles away?Was thinking & concluded that,it is so because we depend on them in more ways than one.Their economy affects ours,their political decisions carry high priority for us.Their bulls & bears drop;& our's collapses.So is the situation that,America sneezes & India catches a cold.I am not blaming America & thats for sure.They obviously are in such commanding position.But what happened to India???We gave zeros,others consolidated on it & gained infinity;& we still are left with zeros.We taught others the language of stars & are still awaiting success of some Chandrayaan,while some Armstrong already got his footprints marked strong on the moon.we gave the decimal point but failed to prove any point after that.Civilization's birth place,workplace of arts & culture...;why do we strive to be civilised today?We keep on basking on our past glories but fail to strengthen our present that will brighten our future.We still keep on praising Kapil's devils but why don't we build Dhoni's unconquerables??Whenever we are about to lose,we camouflage ourselves behind our culture & history.When are we going to stop behaving like this & take the reins of responsibility in our hands?You know?Since i have started studying geography,have seen India being quoted as a "Developing nation"...& awaiting it to be a "Developed nation".....When are we going to break the shackles of religion,region,caste,status & gender?When are we going to blame ourselves for our mistakes instead of others?

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