Read the subject line of email, from one of our trekking group member, who wanted to ensure that all group members and their families are safe after (yet another)13th July attack on Mumbai. Thankfully, everyone from group is safe........
But but but.....does that mean All is really well? ..........Really?........how can it be? when some one slaps you repeatedly and you do noting, then you are giving invitation to slap you next time. Why it is so?......that too when we have power...........To stop it, you don't have to hit it every time, don't have to wage a war....just show them, WE HIT BACK....hit it hard and hit it where it hurts most....Just once and they won't dare to do it next time........but why don't we do it?.....does delusion of this artificial glory of so called restrain is so strong that in comparison to that, there is no value to life of my fellow citizen?.......
Now all chorus of praise of "Resilience of Mumbaikars" will grow strong, will go on for few days and fade away gradually......till next attacks occurs.........Mumbaikar certainly have resilience but what is use of such resilience
which knows only getting up after getting hit every time , just like spring joker.....We certainly have power to come back to our feet after getting hit.........but its enough now.....now it is a time to be more than just spring joker and hit back, first to those people who allow such things to happen and fail to avoid it........
Now talks of "intelligence failure" will do rounds. Every channel, newspaper will put its theory of how it happened.......some analysis, some committee and some months later....everything will be back to normal......till next time same failure leads us to same fate.......Is it that no one, not a single person, among those "Rulers" (yes, all those in power, bureaucrats and safety apparatus, all are rulers only) had read 2000 years old "Kautilya's Arthashashtra" where Chanakya has devoted whole chapter about spies and their structures and arrangement. No one, wants to learn? no one wants to learn from Civil and Military strategy of Shivaji Maharaj? No one?....why....then why they are there? what they do? ... don't they have any inner voice?........
and Again I will be disturb, may be a day or two more.....boiling blood will eventually cool down........ Conveniently make my mind assume that I cant do anything more.....and will happily go about my life, thinking All is well......till it strikes again.....and somewhere deep down in my mind, because I know, it can happen again and more so, why it would happen, that small corner of my mind will be on continuous agitation with so many questions.......... All is not well............
Agreed, completely…
ReplyDeleteMy intention of asking the question, was the well being of all whom I know.
But, reading your mail, I realized that only physical well-being is not sufficient. Its peace of mind that’s also a part of one’s “well-being”. Yes, I completely agree and understand the disturbed mental state of each one of us, regarding these attacks, which happen repeatedly, over and over again unlimited no.of times.
Everywhere in the newspapers, news channels, the details of such blood-shed is being flashed – a list of no.of times Mumbai was attacked, the list of no.of times 13th date was targeted, a list of no.of times July month was targeted, so on and so forth..
A countless count of attacks… but no count of a counter attack at all!!
Because we never did! We never counter-attacked in any situation. Even till date, the culprit who has been sentenced to death, hasn’t been hanged as yet!! I’m sure I don’t need to mention his name.. I’m not even interested.
But the point here is, yes, we all are frustrated, we all are irritated, we all are enraged, but yes, we all are in this state of mind for just a few days. For few days we all will talk, discuss and forget. Move On. That’s life.
Zindagi ki khasiyat hai ye kabhi rukti nahi, saanse ruk jaati hai, par zindagi rukti nahi.
But can we change this?
Can we do something, that will bring a change in the society? In the people’s mentality, which is most important part?
Lets give a thought over it.
Why we only talk, talk, talk, and forget? Why don’t YOU and ME as a citizen, do something?
I’m not expecting we civilians to go and fight on the war front, or with the terrorists with weapons. I’m neither expecting us to enter politics and change the system on the whole (like they showed in “Nayak” or “Sivaji –the boss” or “Mi Shivaji Raje bhosle boltoy” movies – thts again near to impossible, its just a fiction that they show in movies.)
But can we not do really anything? At least at a minor level, at individual level, if we can do even a minor bit, we will have a little more “peace of mind”, our disturbed mind will get some satisfaction, peace and rest, and we will not be under any guilt that – I just talk, talk and forget, and do nothing.
What is that “little” or “minor” or “basics” that we can do at our individual level?
Give a thought over it….