Just after the last wave of terrorist attack couple of months back, I had warned in this post that two days after the event, we will forget about terrorism till the next major tragedy occurs. Instead of identifying the root cause, the UPA Government went on a parallel track that totally derailed the terrorist investigation, only to be rudely awakened with a monumental attack by terrorist in Mumbai yesterday. This is what happens when the Government plays dirty politics with police investigation, retains its home minister who is beneath contempt and conveys a message that it cannot do anything. The terrorists are emboldened. They no longer hide behind crude bombs planted in dustbins. They are out there, armed with AK 47s, shooting innocents at will in high profile locations.
There is no point in bashing the UPA Government. It has been an unmitigated disaster on all fronts.
I would like to remind Manmohan Singh what Srirama gave as advice to Bharatha on how to Administer a country.
"Oh, Bharatha. I hope the ministers you have appointed are valiant like you- full of learning, who have controlled their senses, who are born of high pedigrees (cultured family) and know the meaning of signs (discreet and shrewd).
The sound advice given by experienced ministers well versed in the laws of truth and virtues is the very foundation on which the prosperity of a King rests.
The learned in times of difficulty bring endless glory by solving knotty problems.
I hope you prefer learned men to thousands of fools (read Shivraj Patil). No help will come to a king if he seeks advice from thousands of evil advisers or even ten thousands of them.
Even if there is a single minister if only he is wise, brave, clever and discreet, he will bring fame and prosperity to a King big or small.
I hope the person appointed as your Commander-in-chief is ever pleased, full of resolution, is gallant and talented, is of spotless character and well-born and devoted and clever."
If Manmohan Singh were to ask the above questions to himself, he will find out that the answers to all the questions are in the negative
As I have said before, the people of this country doesnt care. We do not take national issues to our hearts. A bomb blast in distant Mumbai doesnt affect us as it is far away. And we deserve what we have got - A school drop out foreigner whose only qualification is that she married a mentally average son of a tyrant prime minister, as our Super prime minister, an educated economist who is a political non entity as Prime Minister, a disastrous psychophant as Home Minister, a Party that has lost all its values as the leading ruling party, a group of rascals who head smaller regional parties which are prepared to sell their mothers and sisters for a price as coalition partners.
I have always said Cry! My beloved country. But not today. We do not even deserve to shed tears. For you and me are insipid, self-centred to such an extend that we have forgotten how to protest.
India will be better off only when we, citizens, decide to stand up and fight.
Till then terrorist attacks will continue with impunity. The next target could be you.
