I am not buying the myth of “ANGER” among Indian people, I am not buying the synthetic emotions shown by a small section of cosmopolitan society in major Indian cities, I am also not buying the media circus over the Mumbai terror attack, I am not buying the comments made by a handful of “hypocrites” in the form of so called celebrities, social activists, politicians, academicians and the entire bunch of elite class.
It’s 12:39 AM and the first swipe of my office access card should create the beep-beep noise tomorrow by 9:30 AM.
So, I deeply apologise to my readers because I won’t be able to mention each and every item in my list that I am not buying as I am running out of time.
The four items mentioned at the top are definitely not in my list of concept-shopping because I don’t buy fabricated truth and I definitely don’t buy curtains to cover facts.
Item No. 1 – Myth of “ANGER”
Who is angry? Common Indian citizen? The answer is ‘NO’.
I agree with media that the comments made by public are not make-believe. They are true, real.
But, this is not “ANGER”, this is “FEAR”. This is a FEAR in the minds of people who belong to cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Ahmedabad and all other big cities.
The terror attack was on Mumbai. So, it’s quite obvious that the reactions will come. The reactions look even more obvious because this time, the attack took place not in the streets of Assam, not in the villages of Jammu & Kashmir, not in the towns of North-Eastern states, not in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, not on the Karnataka churches, not in the fertile soil of Singur and Nandigram, not in the Mecca-Masjid of Hyderabad, not in the lanes and by-lanes of Malegaon, not in the Best Tulsi Bakery of Gujarat , not in Mumbai local trains. This was not an attack firmly on “The Great Indian Middle Class”.
Let’s accept the fact that this was an attack on the ‘elite-class’ and on goers to Taj and Oberoi. I have no intention to hurt sentiments of those who lost their loved ones in Taj, Oberoi and Nariman House. I don’t even have the words to pay homage to Martyrs or to offer condolences to the victims and their families. I can only shed tears to see the blood-bath.
Whoever it is, a taxi-driver, a foreign tourist in Taj, a waiter at Oberoi, a Mumbai local train passenger, a priest in Akshardham , a Namaji in Mecca-Masjid and the brave officers. Each and every section has been hit and hit to blood and death. And the pain they have gone through is agonizing.
The ones who are coming out, lighting up candles, carrying placards, shouting slogans at politicians are the ones who are scared because the places or the similar places they go were actually attacked.
Why only Mumbai Attack? Why don’t they shout for what happened or still happening in Kandhamal or Mangalore or Assam or J&K? I shout…..WHY?
Hence, they are not ANGRY but SCARED.
Item No.2 – Small section of progressive city society
They don’t understand the reality. They see the world only with their eyes, they feel the pain only with their wounds, they react only with their anger or emotions and they are selfish.
They go to bars, pubs, discos, restaurants, multiplexes, amusement parks, bowling hang-outs and spend thousands in one night but they abuse auto-rickshaw drivers if they ask few tens more.
I partly belong to that category and I am partly charlatan.
Hence, we are pretenders, we are not real and we are synthetic not pure cotton.
Item No.3 – Media Circus
Hats off to Media for its brave and honest efforts catering the live pictures and updates on the attack.
Journalists, Cameramen, News Editors, Presenters and technicians catered all that they could. Few were at the Ground Zero for continuous 60 hours. News channels had minimal commercial breaks.
Kudos!
But, What’s happening now? It’s Circus. I am a journalist and I feel ashamed to be a part of this Indian mainstream media who seem to be least bothered about the solution and more concentrated on the fight and violence.
They master in staging cock-fights among politicians, people with different opinions and drawing out conclusion.
And the fame-crazy and camera-greedy celebrities make mindless comments. Media should play a sensible, respectable and presentable role in their debate shows. Media should atleast invite unbiased knowledgeable speakers and not hawkish “intellectuals” in their debate shows.
We all know journalism is no more a noble profession. It’s just a career and a game of fame, power, status and words.
So, in which way do we stand out? In which way are we different from tainted politicians? We must question ouselves before shooting the bullets on others.
Item No.4 – Celebrities full of pretention
Who do they think they are? Do they live in fool’s paradise thinking that they are representatives of common Indian? They are far away from hard reality. They don’t travel in trains or buses, they don’t live in small towns and villages and their world is a PAGE 3 world.
A world where only career aspires, fame rules, money buys, greed hits back and immorality reaches its high.
They just cannot be our representatives. They are just insensible, unethical media-hungry trashy elements of the society.
I bet more than 70% of the Indians would not accept them as their representatives. (I give it in wriring). I may go wrong with the percentage. It can be even further up.
A Challenge from me – Conduct a survey all over India on this claim of mine. And if I am right? Whom are they representing? Who wants them?
So, these were the items that do not fit into my somewhat straight mindset. (I call them items to give a derogatory tone).
It’s 2:38 AM. I must go to bed. That’s the way most of the Indians think, I think. We must change.
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