A couple of days ago after those horrendous moments that Mumbai witnessed, I went to a nearby provision store to buy few imperative items, as I didn’t dare to step out of the hostel during terror attacks. I met a daredevil female at the store arguing over some issue with the owner. I ignored the heated discussion and went over looking for some chocolates when I heard someone saying “Brahmins are much cheaper than Muslims.” My antennas stood up and I was pulled with an automatic force towards that irascible expositor. Everyone around her was quite and stunned with those bombshell facts she was throwing for defining the cast of terrorists and politicians, though she weigh them equally.
According to her Narender Modi hates Muslims because his wife fled with some Muslim guy (I didn’t know this!!). Secondly, all of us our genetic outcome of women who were raped by Changeaz khan, so we are more impure than Muslims. Thirdly, blaming any other cast for the heinous attacks by the terrorist is of no use as Hindu leaders have given rise to terror activities themselves. Lastly, all Indians should join hands together to eliminate theory of dividing India on the basis of north south east west from the minds of common people, which is throttling the basic fabric of our society. We must stop all this before Raj Thackeray’s philosophy spreads its evil tentacles across the nation. She was angry, boiling at a high temperature, but her arguments were unusual. They were largely different from what I expected from a normal angry Mumbaikar after the attacks.
Later on I came to know that she was Pratibha Sinha, daughter of a renowned bollywood actress, an elite mumbaikar who was upset over the frightful attacks. Fortunately or unfortunately it was that uninterested vendor and those unfazed customers who fell victim to her outrage. This incident made me ponder over those unanswered questions going in my mind for days:
• Were these upper crust people equally angry when recently Malegaon, Delhi or North east territories were attacked?
• Were their hearts resonant with same annoyance and their minds, crying for such peace marches when other parts of India were witnessing these ghastly attacks?
• Why only these attacks have triggered such mass frustration or exasperation and not the other events where thousands of innocent lives were taken?
• Why these politicians were not blamed and made to resign earlier?
• In those attacks when a poor lady used to roam with a slipper of her son in her hand to find his body, weren’t those visuals disturbing enough as a wakeup call for rest of the India?
Everything is same, the attacks, terrorists, victims, politicians, blame game and cries... if something has changed that is except a crowded vegetable market, today, sophisticated elite India is targeted. Yes, innocent middle class Indians were under fire at CST but hardly any importance is given to them both by the media and its consumers.
Yesterday we saw thousands of people from different backgrounds coming together at Gateway and Jantar Mantar to raise their voices against terrorism. I hope this spirit to fight, to challenge the functioning of our corrupt political system, and trying hard to get out of the trap of terrorism will not get suppressed after few days. I hope these protagonists will keep trying to pursue, protect, prevent and prepare rest of the citizen to take serious action rather than just presenting their opinions on the overall scenario. Let everyone say ‘I want to make a difference. And I’ll make it soon’.
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