I just read this post in divya's blog about Mumbai being targeted again. She has done a good job in portraying how somebody feels when they have lost some one their own. I appreciate her willingness and effort to share about this on her blog. Especially because these days any crime be it small or big, any catastrophe be it man made or natural... everything has just become "another" incident and nothing more to those who are unaffected.
I have always wondered why in all channels the advertisements are shown more than once during the same program and I learned that it is the easiest way to increase familiarity of the product to even an uninterested-ad-skipping viewer. The innumerable number of news channels spread around the world try to cover each and every "important" disasters in every possible way they can. When repeatedly these news reach us, we tend to develop a false impression that all these horrible things are the most common things in the world!!! What we fail to remind ourselves repeatedly is that no matter how common it is- it is sad! I am not suggesting to cry with every bad news in the TV. Not at all. What I think we should do is to remind ourselves and our children/ friends/family continuously that it may be common to hear about disasters but being unattached and emotionless to such news is unacceptable... we are "supposed" to be humans, let us feel for each other!
I feel, that is the first step we can take against being nonchalant.
A few questions that the govt. needs to ask itself.
1. Why didn't our intelligence agency not have any clue about this planned 3 simultaneous attack?
2. Is it because they are not capable? Or is it coz they don't have enough resource?
3. With a population of more than 1.2 billion, are we in dearth of human power and intelligence?
4. Or is the deficeit mainly monetary? If it is monetary then we need to actually look into each and every MP's and MLA's and other prominent leaders' bank accounts and we all know we will find more than enough funds.
Hopefully something like the movie Muthalvan (Tamil) or Nayak (Hindi) will happen and we will all be saved in time... yea I know, it is a bit too fictional to wish for..but nevertheless the world is driven by hope...so might as well hope for this... and expect to get at least half best of it...
We talk , dicsuss & debate from home level to international level about how to eradicate the problems in our society...but in reality we are satisfied .. we are satisfied if we aren't bothered individually with any of the problems that is said to worry the public. Most of us will not even move our little finger to straighten the wrongs that cross our paths daily... See, this is why our hopes aren't fulfilled. We settle for something not worth for settling and then blame the system for it! We wake up only when something unwanted happens and then very soon return to our famous resilience.
Again... somewhere deep down I know this blog isn't followed and hence will not make any difference... this post is as hollow as all the debates /discussion /talks with no result whatsoever. But I sincerely wish and hope that we all will wake up soon and take a sturdy stance against doing our bit to not let happen things which aren't supposed to happen.
The point is not whether you are read or not. The point is whether you care or not. Thank for this post. :) And that's exactly the problem with each one of us, you know. We all think, what difference will just a small gesture og ours make, so let it be. We often forget the saying "Lttle drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land."
ReplyDelete@Spaceman Spiff: Very True
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