A Nation slapped in the face
Today morning after I read a hard copy of this article by Prabhu Chawla in India Today and then started off for my Workplace, I realised how much our nation and almost everything about it that we are proud of, stands at a mercy of the terrorist.
My workplace definitely is. Though it appears to be one of the most high end of the facilities an IT company can be hosted by, it is so vulnerable to those intentions that killed almost 200 between 26 to 28 November 2008. The 6 lane road I everyday take to work is no less vulnerable. The Chinese restaurant I spend evenings with my wife, the supermarket we go for buying our dailies, the cineplex which provides some respite from Recession worries, are all at risk. Those iconic Cyber Towers, which every Hyderabadi working in Hi tech city stops to salute - more for reasons of traffic - and hence the presence and significance of almost every beautiful building in our Metros which assert India Inc's stride into the new world order is at mercy of some armed and brainwashed creatures.
We might have one of the world's largest armies. And our arsenal is well equipped to provide us with a never-felt-before sense of security against foreign invasion. Still some 10 people come by boat loaded with enough arsenal to kill 200 of us and terrorize rest of us for life. We might be strong and brave. But we are not safe.
The intelligence and security agencies can not boast of anything in terms of numbers, figures or stats which can make us feel safe. I am left with the feeling that if someday, someone in our neighbouring countries decides to kill me or some others around me, our security forces will not be able to save me. I am alive because someone there has not decided that yet. I, my life and everyone else's around me is at their mercy.
We think, innovate, conceptualize and slog at our work places so that the nation keeps growing at 8%. We go to work everyday with the dream of a new India in our hearts. My generation is the one that has chosen to stay in this place - and not fly west despite opportunities - too see the nation make it big. And be a part of it. Suddenlty that 'Great Indian Dream' is at the mercy of some RDX which can anytime choose to blow itselves up at the right spots. The dream is alive because someone in our neighboring country has not yet decided to blow it away.
I think if these politicians also one day wake up to realize that that their lives, jobs and dreams are at the mercy of the people who 'came by the boat', a lot of our problems will be solved. But the security forces are for them to stay away from being terrorized. It has to be we, the people for whom there is no security and hence, only fear and mercy.
Today morning after I read a hard copy of this article by Prabhu Chawla in India Today and then started off for my Workplace, I realised how much our nation and almost everything about it that we are proud of, stands at a mercy of the terrorist.
My workplace definitely is. Though it appears to be one of the most high end of the facilities an IT company can be hosted by, it is so vulnerable to those intentions that killed almost 200 between 26 to 28 November 2008. The 6 lane road I everyday take to work is no less vulnerable. The Chinese restaurant I spend evenings with my wife, the supermarket we go for buying our dailies, the cineplex which provides some respite from Recession worries, are all at risk. Those iconic Cyber Towers, which every Hyderabadi working in Hi tech city stops to salute - more for reasons of traffic - and hence the presence and significance of almost every beautiful building in our Metros which assert India Inc's stride into the new world order is at mercy of some armed and brainwashed creatures.
We might have one of the world's largest armies. And our arsenal is well equipped to provide us with a never-felt-before sense of security against foreign invasion. Still some 10 people come by boat loaded with enough arsenal to kill 200 of us and terrorize rest of us for life. We might be strong and brave. But we are not safe.
The intelligence and security agencies can not boast of anything in terms of numbers, figures or stats which can make us feel safe. I am left with the feeling that if someday, someone in our neighbouring countries decides to kill me or some others around me, our security forces will not be able to save me. I am alive because someone there has not decided that yet. I, my life and everyone else's around me is at their mercy.
We think, innovate, conceptualize and slog at our work places so that the nation keeps growing at 8%. We go to work everyday with the dream of a new India in our hearts. My generation is the one that has chosen to stay in this place - and not fly west despite opportunities - too see the nation make it big. And be a part of it. Suddenlty that 'Great Indian Dream' is at the mercy of some RDX which can anytime choose to blow itselves up at the right spots. The dream is alive because someone in our neighboring country has not yet decided to blow it away.
I think if these politicians also one day wake up to realize that that their lives, jobs and dreams are at the mercy of the people who 'came by the boat', a lot of our problems will be solved. But the security forces are for them to stay away from being terrorized. It has to be we, the people for whom there is no security and hence, only fear and mercy.
posted by UltaChashma @ 3:48 AM
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