Sri Lankan forces broke in to the town of Kilinochi, the stronghold and breeding place for LTTE. They’ve conquered a major bastion. They’re celebrating it as a victory. And celebrate they should.
They had the heart and ass to take it full on against the forces that are anti-national and give it right back to them. They lost a lot of men, resources and had to face a lot of ire from our hypocritical pseudo secular shitheads who had no business poking into ‘internal business’ of another country (the same way they said Pakistan had no business poking into our ‘internal business’).
The country (SL) stands proud today for the men at the top felt obliged enough to stop pissing meaninglessly from their mouths like our ‘honourables’ and show some action.
This time when terrorists stabbed the heart of my nation, the politicos were happy. Happy because this time they had an enemy to diss who every one of us likes to blame, Pakistan.
I’m no Pakistan fan.
But I think I hate our double standard-ed ‘netas’ even more. All this time in 2008 we got repeatedly attacked and we had only us to blame, no scapegoats. But did that turn into any action? Were any terror cells located inside our land dismantled by Indian security forces? Were terrorists brought to law and prosecuted. Were the terrorists already in custody and already convicted given their punishments.
I don’t think so. Then how come our spineless government opens up the big shady mouth and starts preaching lessons of action and sternness to someone else?
And when somebody does something against these piles of scum, the entire set of ‘righteous’, ‘secular’ and ‘humanly right’ people stand up and start shouting nonsense.
I’m getting pretty sick of what’s happening around me.
I’ve decided not to tell anyone, including the mighty Goverment of India what I want… what makes me feel safe in my country, what makes me proud of my country… what makes me.
I’ve decided to try and find my own ways to improve the situation around me. Scream loud so that anybody who cares also and if they want to listen to me, may be do something on their parts too.
I’ve decided to make my country proud.
… More to come.
PS: It started from something, ended far away from what my intentions were at the start.
“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
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I was reminded of this quote by one of the great thinkers India has produced after reading this post. What does this signifies? Are the two antonyms? Does either of them has the capability to show me the path? But path to what? Do I know the destination? And if I don’t, do I even have the right to ask these questions? In these troubled times (this is for the first time I have felt troubled by the present than the by the follies of the past) I guess, it is natural enough to be seized by confusion. Who is right, we or they? Rather what is right? Then I am again reminded of something which one of my teachers said during my post grad days, “there is something that you say, there is something which I say and then there is something which is the truth.”
Perhaps no one is right or perhaps both are right.
I am forced to ask the question, why did this all come to pass? The search for the answer leads me into time – backwards. And somehow, this journey into past is somewhat of a constant everywhere. I guess it should be because it is always the action that follows the cause. And cause lies somewhere in the past. Ironically, in almost all the cases, we know this past too well and even then are unable to devise a suitable strategy. Then, this too perhaps is how it should be. If it’s the action that troubles you, you can’t do much about the cause – unless of course it’s cyclic i.e. the action itself is the cause of the cause. In this case, perhaps I can alter the action so that the cause which ‘caused’ that action changes. This would have been a good idea – if only we knew what cause our altered action will become. Unfortunately we don’t.
Somehow I feel that it is all cyclic – I mean all that we are currently facing – though in a rather subtle way. And in order to achieve a ‘better action’ by altering the ‘present action’, we have been trying to correct the cause. It, however, doesn’t seems to be working. All altered actions are becoming a newer cause to a worse action and the cycle is continuing.
What is the solution then? To simulate a program of choices of ‘altered actions’ and checking which one is the best? I guess that too must have been tried a numerous times. So there is no solution. All of this shall continue with perpetuity, fueling it on itself. Or is there some solution? I hope we find it before it is too late? Right now, I don’t seem to have any.
By: Rahul Bharadwaj on January 2, 2009
at 11:55 pm