With The Fungus Gone.

serial bomb blasts in Delhi.
1405 lifers to be freed in Tamil Nadu on account of Karunanidhi’s birthday
Modi:”i had warned the PM about the blasts”
Kashmir boiling on.
i wont write the rest because a case of obscenity charges might be filed against me. Yes, freedom of expression is curbed too!

welcome to the India i am increasingly aware and weary of.India has always been an epitome of God’s own country , afterall it is a wonder the way it functions.Yet inspite of the riots, the kargil war, blasts before, kandahar hijack and the attack on the parliament i believed in the country. I thought that  over a period of time with a better economy and a passing away of hopefully of a generation of politicians and the emergence of a well educated powerful middle class things will change.They will become better. I was wrong and so were many others who hoped to live the great Indian dream.But, i was younger then and when you are, you are also naive.You tend to believe in the impossible in a way.

vote bank politics has ensured we dont even have a proper anti-terror mechanism in place. We still shout for Afzal Guru and the PM claims he cried listening to Haneef’s mother. But  Sir, how many drops of tears did you shed when a series of blasts ripped through Bangalore, Ahmedabad,Mumbai,Delhi,Surat,Varanasi and to cut it short Lucknow?Its not the fear of the insecurity that stings, its the inability to reply to that challenge thrown at us so blatantly by the terrorists.Each serial blast echoes the same pertinent barb”  we can do what we want, try stopping us.”

we dont even have a system in the first place to counter terrorism. the most telling picture was Shivraj Patil in all his white suit glory trying to avoid a puddle of water while visiting the blast victims.If only he was as dilligent with the affairs of the nation. How many meetings did the PM call to discuss national security as opposed to the NSG waiver?

its not the nation’s problem with malnutrition, poverty , corruption, reservations or the umpteen other factors that bothers me much. As an Indian you learn to  accept that as a part of your nation. Its the lackadaisal attitude towards national security that hits me hard. The new set of politicians are no better. I had an encounter with Mr.Sachin Pilot once, in the Outlook Debate finals. He wasnt even willing to take criticsm against the Congress!

Last time i travelled by train, a tiffin box carrier was left unclaimed near my seat. five minutes, ten minutes and a fifteen, and passengers around me started to get worried including me.it turned out to be the pantry car’s.Every time i see a madarassa outside in kerala ,i view it with suspicion. with a deep resentment that its there and imagining terror plots spewing .I see it as the changing face of Indian demography. Once, i saw a couple of young boys playing shuttle in one such place. it surprised me greatly. Our train stopped by and a small boy climbed the wall and waved hi. it took an effort from me to return it.A delay that saw the boy’s smile falter ,till i returned it.He would have hardly been seven. Who is to answer for that hesitation on my part or pay the price for the fading smile of that young boy? Definitely the set of incompetent  people in Delhi cant.