At this fateful time of sorrow i hope this bang was enough to pop us up... if not now than never..
The days as they pass drew curtains to the inhuman carnage that mumbai faced.
The audacity on the attack left me shaken deep inside. The wounds may not heal fast and they shouldn't heal fast either, India patronage the tiger as its national animal.A wounded tiger is ferociously dangerous, it licks his wounds to heal them fast...yeah we really are tigers not in sense of voracity but we love licking our wounds like the tiger.. don't we.. to let them heal.. to let the pain subside.. be it banaras, or delhi or jaipur or guwahati or any other sprawling city we lick our wounds recklessly give dialog delivery, play the blame game and its soon all gone we forget everything.We are healed back to our common sense, back to good old teatime political gupshup or back to good old saas bahu serials. But NOT this time, now we realise that its now or never, now we realise that we need to give answers , now the wimps are all powerful and ready to hit back.I have never felt more indian or more a united indian before. My nephew asked me bhaiya "terrorist" kya hota heh. I was dumbstruck he is just 6 years old. In his juvenile , pure heart he may not understand the true meaning of terrorism still but what about children there in Kashmir . I fear they don't loose the innocence of their childhood between words like curfew, azadi, jehad etc.
What happened on 26th should swell in the heart of every indian. Every indian knows mumbai they know the chopatti, the marine drive, the Taj thanks to bollywood every indian feel connected to this city for bollywood movies are the most important form of entertainment across the sub-continent, i myself have never been to mumbai but today not just for being a hindustani from my souls as of millions of pakistanis or bangladeshis, mumbai is a city they have seen as they have grown.
It is this blasphemous openness of mumbai which makes it the nerve centre of south asia, and the same frail openness will not let us forget this mayhem. Let it make a permanent imprint let the the terrorist know they have choosen the wrong city to attack on, kasav your troop has messed with a city with a million souls, they may be battered, they may be rigid but they know how to bounce back .The resilience will turn into a noise and this time the noise will be louder than the cry .The dusk was duskier than the dusk drawn it seems.But certainly it will give way to an auroral morning.
This sense will sure be sensible than the common sense.
The days as they pass drew curtains to the inhuman carnage that mumbai faced.
The audacity on the attack left me shaken deep inside. The wounds may not heal fast and they shouldn't heal fast either, India patronage the tiger as its national animal.A wounded tiger is ferociously dangerous, it licks his wounds to heal them fast...yeah we really are tigers not in sense of voracity but we love licking our wounds like the tiger.. don't we.. to let them heal.. to let the pain subside.. be it banaras, or delhi or jaipur or guwahati or any other sprawling city we lick our wounds recklessly give dialog delivery, play the blame game and its soon all gone we forget everything.We are healed back to our common sense, back to good old teatime political gupshup or back to good old saas bahu serials. But NOT this time, now we realise that its now or never, now we realise that we need to give answers , now the wimps are all powerful and ready to hit back.I have never felt more indian or more a united indian before. My nephew asked me bhaiya "terrorist" kya hota heh. I was dumbstruck he is just 6 years old. In his juvenile , pure heart he may not understand the true meaning of terrorism still but what about children there in Kashmir . I fear they don't loose the innocence of their childhood between words like curfew, azadi, jehad etc.
What happened on 26th should swell in the heart of every indian. Every indian knows mumbai they know the chopatti, the marine drive, the Taj thanks to bollywood every indian feel connected to this city for bollywood movies are the most important form of entertainment across the sub-continent, i myself have never been to mumbai but today not just for being a hindustani from my souls as of millions of pakistanis or bangladeshis, mumbai is a city they have seen as they have grown.
It is this blasphemous openness of mumbai which makes it the nerve centre of south asia, and the same frail openness will not let us forget this mayhem. Let it make a permanent imprint let the the terrorist know they have choosen the wrong city to attack on, kasav your troop has messed with a city with a million souls, they may be battered, they may be rigid but they know how to bounce back .The resilience will turn into a noise and this time the noise will be louder than the cry .The dusk was duskier than the dusk drawn it seems.But certainly it will give way to an auroral morning.
This sense will sure be sensible than the common sense.
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Subject: Invitation to Jago Bhopal Inaugural Online Blogger Symposium (2008).
Gourav Ji,
Hello.
The Mumbai Terror Attack evoked the same emotions in all of us, we all tried to do something for our country, someone SMSed, the other joined a Candle Vigil, even some people sulked that nothing can be done in this country, for this country, by its people.
The Blogging Community is an exception to this, because each person’s ideas and solutions are there for all of us to read and discuss, and then we can convert these into reality. The problem is simply by writing a blog article we cannot change our country, the problem is apart from a few famous ones all the bloggers stay at the margins of internet getting frustrated why their wonderful idea is not being listened to and put to action.
The problem is that we all don’t connect with each other even in the same city, even on the internet. The problem is our intentions should be reflected in our actions, to clean the politics of this country, we must at least participate in political discussions (not like that shown on NDTV, but like all of talking together through blogs)
In this context, I invite you to connect with other bloggers from Bhopal and make an initial contribution to a new kind of politics in Bhopal and in our country.
I invite you to the Jago Bhopal Blogger Symposium (2008).
I request you to write an article (write a sentence, a long article, a full-fledged criticism, a couplet, a poem, anything) on any one of the following topics:
1. India of My Dreams.
2. Is Jago Party a better option than other political parties of India.
ENTRY SUBMISSION:
1. Publish the entry on your blog and mail it to latent.dissent@gmail.com or post the link on the symposium notice form on jagobhopal.blogspot.com as a comment.
2. Send the entry directly to latent.dissent@gmail.com or jagobhopal@gmail.com along with your name.
3. The date of entry is from 22 december to 28 december 2008.
Sincerely,
Latent Dissent.
(latentdissent.blogspot.com)
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