Disappointment, Helplessness and hopelessness in Mumbai

Today as I wrote this I feel ashamed to call my self Indian. I feel really disappointed, helpless and above all hopeless to think as to why my desitiny decides to give me a birth in India.

We have just witnessed the biggest terrorist attack in the history of India. More than 125 people have killed for the past 24 hours and nobody knows when this ordeal will end and how much more lives it will take.

Do you know what is more tragic than the brutal killings of innocents on the streets of Mumbai? More tragic  than the death of some of our finest police officers? More tragic than the devastation of our premium hotels? More tragic than the fear on the face of a common Indian?

The most tragic thing than all the above is the fact that all of us will forget about this just after a few weeks. Period.

You can see for yourself as I write this. Just after a few weeks this tragic and the most devastating terrorist attack on the soil of India will be conveniently forgotten by our media, our politicians and our people. The life will go on as usual.

We Indians have become the biggest idiots in the world. A matter of joke for the entire world. We have developed an uncanny habit of not learning from our mistakes. We are so happy with our stupid TV serials, our senseless movies, our mindless reality shows that we have even forgotten what ‘SELF RESPECT’ means. We are the biggest nincompoop people in the world.

Those who don’t take a lesson from history are condemned to repeat it.

India has not learned any lesson from history. Let us admit it now. We are a nation of most selfish people on earth. We are senseless, emotionless and the least patriotic people on earth. Just about anybody can come here and humiliate us. Anybody can kill our loved ones and can destroy our properties. But we are so short of any self respect that we will not even raise an objection. We will discuss about this, we will write about this (just as I, an idiot myself, is doing right now), but we shall never take any action against those who challenge our sovereignty.

With all the talk about our so called great democratic system, let us admit that Indian democracy is world’s biggest hypocrisy. Our constitution has all the safeguard to protect the basic right of common man. Yet, here the only person who suffers  at every point of his life is the common man. He is humiliated by police, harassed by corrupt officials, forced to wait in queue, killed in bomb blasts and forced to live a life of uncertainty.

Our politicians always think in terms of vote banks. There every statement is a calculated one with only one aim – to appease one community or other. Our corrupt, selfish and impotent politicians have no concern for the image of India in world’s eyes. They are more concern about their vote banks than to do something meaningful and decisive to fight terrorism.

In a recent news discussion, one of our news channel asked an Israeli expert about  what can be done to fight terrorism in  India. The expert’s answer was simple and straightforward – “Nobody will come to rescue India. It has to fight it’s own battle.”

However, the biggest irony is that though India is capable of fighting its own battle, the politicians of India will never allow that to happen. We are condemned to be lead by a bunch of idiot jokers who don’t give a damn about their country. For them the entire issue is to secure, maintain and enhance their votebanks so as to ensure the control of power in their hand. Nobody is concerned about giving a final blow to the terrorist.

Dr. Manmohan Singh is one the most intelligent economists of the world. However, he is not a person we can look forward to in such time of distress. He is too soft to become Prime Minister of India. He is a very good academic but has turned out to be a very bad Prime Minister. Nobody takes him seriously. His presence does not instill any confidence in us.

In a recent interview, International terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said about India’s terrorism problem :

“The only way to prevent that, the only way to reduce the threat is to develop high-quality, high-grade intelligence on these groups, on the individuals, and to detect and disrupt those organisations – either to incarcerate or kill those individual leaders.

“Unless that is done, the threat of terrorism will grow in India. So India must rethink, must totally revise its counter terrorism policy and strategy as a result of this attack.”

But let me tell you in advance, don’t expect any rethink on India’s strategy to fight terrorism. Unfortunately, we Indians are not made up of that stuff. We are the most selfish people in the world. For us our castes, our communities, our religion and our voters comes first. There is no nationalism left in us. It has died long ago. The kind of people you see in today’s India are not the ones who used to be here once. Now you’ll only find stupid people who can blame each other, who can give money to terrorist so that they can fight a legal battle, who will blame Hindu sages for  terrorism, who will shamelessly support the minorities and reject every finger that points towards them, who will very conveniently forget all attacks on mother India.

I am really ashamed to be a citizen under this coward leadership who have lost all sense of purpose.

My dear India, you are great….

but my heart weeps as…..

your leaders have failed you.

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