A perfect master plan or an intelligence failure, whatever the mumbai attacks showcased they sure left us all bloody and marred for the lifetime. The attacks left a dent on the pride and dignity of India and all we did was look towards the men in white house for a nod..as if its absence would invalidate the fact that we had been molested. Something that can be attributed to the power that the white house weilds.
But the public outburst and the mass agitation against the politicians who thought it too cumbersome to execute their own duties brought a sense of pride and elation in the mind of every onlooker. It brought a ray of hope that things are going to change. Because somewhere our pride and dignity as a free and developing country had received a blow. One fancied that free India is not going to take any more shit.
The protests, the rallies, the candles, the rising voices, the anger and determination in people's eyes led to a string of political and adminstrative modulations. Number of sackings and inumerous reforms were attempted to pacify the anger and frustration that was boiling now. And it reaffirmed the fact that true champions of democracy is the PUBLIC. Just as the famous saying goes "yeh public hai, sab janti hai". It reminded me of the dialogue that DJ ( none other than my favourite Aamir Khan) said in Rang De Basanti.."koi bhi desh perfect nahi hota,usse perfect banana padta hain" or another of my favourites that went something like "jindgi jine ke do hin tarike hote hain,ya toh chup chap sahte raho jo ho raha hai hone do, ya fir sar uthao aur uska virodh karo chahe jo bhi ho."
But now when I look around me, in the news papers, in the news channels, in my peer group, in my home, and the place closest to me i.e. inside myself....the scar has begun to fade. People remember the mumbai attack as one unfatefull day when many of their kins died. Nothing more. It doesnt boil their blood anymore.. It doesnt make them feel insulted or molested anymore. People have reconciled to the fact that nothing can be changed. Just like a drowning person gives up throwing his arms after sometime and resigns to his fate.
Or is it that my favourite DJ has transformed to Sanjay Singhania( the protagonsit of the recent bollywood blockbuster GHAJNI ....again played by Aamir bhai) ?? A person with short term memory loss. What have we forgotten? Have we forgotten the mutilated bodies of the 300 odd people?? Or is it that we have forgotten our own pride and resolution. But even Sanjay Singhania remembered the cold blooded murder of his sweetheart. But unfortunately we do not.
Is it that we have resigned ourselves to the hand of those petty politicians who are no better than slimy leechs? Or is it that we just DONT CARE?? I dont know.
But I know that DJ is the favourite of many Young Indians because he stood up to be the change he envisaged. May be its time to raise our head and voice and be little filmy.
RANG DE BASANTI.....
