Monday, December 03, 2012

The shocking reality!

Two, maximum three months, and a majority of Indians will quite easily forget their ‘unbelievable’ anger of now... In fact, much faster than they’ll forget the daily issues that affect their lives...

Leaving our acerbic sides for a moment, we do accept that on the creditable side, the recent carnage at Mumbai exemplified a feeling which is so very unique to India. When Ratan Tata was inspecting the loss inflicted to the century old building of The Taj Mahal Hotel, not far away from there, two year old Moshe’s cries for his mother were echoing in one of the synagogues in Mumbai during the prayer for his slain parents. Its resonance literally permeated the notional distance and reached every house of Israel, and brought tears in the eyes of every inhabitant. Ratan Tata might be an Indian of Persian origin (present day Iran) while Moshe might be a Jew, but grief and loss saw them both as participants, rather recipients, of a most unfortunate terror attack.

Amidst the mayhem, at one stroke, what anything else could not, grief did. Indians, for once, kept aside their petty differences and were united. Starting from the lower middle class Mumbaikars who commute in local trains – and were sprayed with bullets in the CST station – to some of the richest echelons of this country who were dining at Taj, from the Hindus who didn’t claim they were shot at because they were Hindus to Muslims who shared the sentiment, from the extremely heroic policemen who died despite wearing lowest quality bullet proof jackets provided by the State, to the NSG commandos who died despite wearing highest quality bullet proof jackets provided by the same State... for once, those were humans who died, not Indians, not Israelis, not British, but humans.

But seriously speaking, this terror attack awakened this country to a higher degree than had other attacks in the past. Honestly, for long many of those staying in metropolitan cities never cared two hoots about terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, North-East or the Naxal problem in the hinterlands. But today, things have changed. Realisation is dawning that it’s the common man who stands perpetually victimised. And to save them, came no one but the common man himself.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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