Sunday, November 30, 2008

Salute the 'Real' Heroes


26/11 Terror has shaken not only India but the world itself barring 9/11 like never before. Bomb blasts have never stopped the Maximum city in its tracks. Everytime a bomb blast happened the spirit of Mumbai was back up the very next morning in full steam. 

But this attack has been so different purely because of its cold-blooded nature. But thanks to a few Heroes things couldnt get any worse. This post is aimed at thanking the 'real' Heroes as mentioned below:

1. Politicians: Though our politicians are always dignified in their conduct but this time they took the cake. Banners all over Mumbai 'saluting the martyrs' in which photographs of politicians were larger than the 'martyrs' themselves. Even in moments like this all they could do was blame each other. The Dy. CM of Maharashtra also went to the extent of declaring that this attack was only a minor issue. Our Narendrabhai had even declared 1cr as aid even before the operations were anything close to getting over. Politicians are model role models as to how one must try and extract mileage from any tragedy.

2. Visual Media: Our responsible media was at its best during the entire episode. They excelled in sensationalizing tragedy. They reported in a absolute sensitive manner by showing scant respect to survivors ,dead people and their bereaving relatives. They helped the entire saga get more interesting by giving away the location of our security forces in the building. They helped reduce the population of India by abetting the murders of some of our Top Security personnel. 

3. Balasaheb Kaka : A special mention. The Sainiks dont think twice before vandalising any place but were no where to be seen during the ghastly attacks. Maybe they dont have the experience to fight when opposite person is unarmed. In that case can somebody request terrorist to come unarmed next time or ask Mumbai people to carry weapons. Sainiks can be as good as NSG. 

4. Raj Chacha: A special mention again. He didnt seem to have an issue over the NSG being airlifted from Delhi and if I am not wrong none of the NSGs were Marathi Manoos. So none of the MNS guys interfered in the operation. But next time please request that any anti-terror operation in Maharashtra will have to be carried out by Marathi Manoos only. Also please take up with ISI / LeT suitably to ensure that any terrorist attacks on Maharashtra will be carried out by Marathi Manoos only.  

5. Pakistani Army / ISI / Govt. : You risked your reputations by sending these terrorists. So you too are a hero. On the battlefield you are reputed to the proverbial losers who run off with tails tucked between the legs. But the terrorists didnt let you down. When one of them was caught he said "I want to Live!". So did the hundreds of innocent you killed but I guess you couldnt hear them because of the sound of the guns you were firing.

There are a lot of heroes but these stood out. So I made my gratitude to them public.