Well, it feels good to be home, aint it ? After being away from my blog for months together, I am back tonight at, ummmmm, 11:30 PM, 14th June, 2011 !!!!
Getting to the point .. Indian sailors freed by the pirates about a YEAR of being hostage with them yesterday. No one can believe that the Government didn't know of this fact for all these months but the people of this country came to know of this incident only about 2 months back. Government kept it hidden for the reasons best known to it. We would have been content had the Government got 'em back. Any responsible Government of the world would take all the necessary steps to get her people back and, if need be, even go out of her way to do the needful. But the Indian Government, rather than taking action and getting her people back, simply slept over the issue and, even when the matter was brought before the public by the media, the Government shamefully resorted to Red Tapism and the buck kept on passing from Ministry of External Affairs to Ministry of Shipping to the owner of MV Suez and the matter nearly died its own death and the cries of the families were buried under the tombstones of files.
There was a complete lull in the atmosphere about this incident till yesterday when the news was flashed that all the sailors were released. But they were not released for nothing. They were paid their ransom. According to the news, the understanding was that the major chunk would be paid by the shipping company and the rest would be shared between Indian and Pak Governments. As was told to the media by one of the family members of a sailor that, here too, Indian Govt. kept quiet and they were losing all hopes when Governor of Pak's Sind province called them and assured them of help and they collected the major part and paid it off.
The only thing expected of the Indian Govt. now is the dirty political games over this incident and the false back patting of themselves.
One thing is clear that a common man is very COMMON and, hence, is not paid heed enough. Had it been a rare species like some politician or even someone of its family, I am sure that entire GDP of the country of that year would have been spent on that useless creation !!!!
Lately, there was one more news that China is constructing a damn on river Brahmaputra which is gonna divert the water of the river and which which would endanger the very existence of Assam and other neighbouring states. On this also, rather than taking a strong stand against China, Minister of External Affairs said that he is awaiting the REPORT and then they will be able to take APPROPRIATE steps !!!! If we could be apprised of your APPROPRIATE steps Mr. Minister. I think you have forgotten the incident when China walked its way into the country, stepping right on your b@#ls and painted the stones red. We cannot remember any steps taken by you then except baseless explanations. So, if not then, what on earth can you do now, you morons ?!?
9/11 happened 10 years back but every year the people gather on Ground-Zero and remember those who laid their lives. After killing Osama, President Obama said "WE DON'T FORGET". As for us, all I can say is "WE DON'T REMEMBER". We don't remember those three soldiers who were literally chopped in Kargil and we kept quiet, we don't remember our soldiers of 1971 war who are languishing in Pak jails and we just believe Pak's words that they ain't there, we don't remember 26/11 and now we also don't remember that apart from these 6 Indian sailors, many more are captive in the high seas !!!!
I wanna warn the Government that Egypt, Yemen and Libya are no more the Countries. They are now the symbols of the fires in the people's hearts which flare up whenever the Governments tread the wrong path and stomp on the patience of the people. The only thing left for the Governments to do in those cases is to burn and perish in the heat, giving way and becoming a history.
Democracy is not the WORD. Its a CONCEPT which is not supposed to be read, rather understood and followed, and whenever some Government forgets that, it is reminded of it by WE THE PEOPLE !!!! I need not say that I am foreseeing that.
MTC
