‘Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high….’
SUJATA RAJPAL writes: As the TV channels show the wild dance of terror playing out on the streets of Bombay, I am reminded of this verse by Rabindranath Tagore.
Today neither our mind is without fear nor the head is held high.
Irrespective of our religion, caste or in which part of the country we live, we are scared to death, scared to be killed by the bullet of an insane terrorist, so much so that we are scared to even step out of the house.
The record of the past six months shows that India is not a safe place to live in or even to visit any longer. We should not live in the false belief that terrorists can’t bow us down by these acts. The bitter truth is they have bowed us down so much that we have stopped believing that things will become better one day.
“It’s a cowardly act”
“We will not tolerate this act of barbarism”
“We will fight against terrorism…”
Enough of these false promises Mr Prime Minister!
How many more innocent people will have to die to make our government realize that enough is enough. It is the time to act and retaliate. Every time there is a bomb blast or any such incident the government is quick to announce compensation to the dead and injured as if it can bring back their lives with that money.
The catchphrase ‘Mera Bharat Mahan’ seems hollow and does not bring goose pimples on our arms.
Can we call our country great if our government can’t protect the lives of its citizens?
It is high time we stop living in this false pride. Whether the inaction by the government is due to lack of political will or the government is simply confused on what to do, the stark reality is it has done nothing substantial to protect us.
Not a single month passes without the news of a bomb blast.
Has our government taken one significant step which is visible to us and which can give us assurance that we are safe on our own land?
Government can spend crores of rupees on a mission to moon and plans to send a man to moon but can we walk on our own streets with pride and without fear? Government should realize its priority and divert that money for the security and defence of the country.
Jaan hai to jahan hai.
If there is no security of life all this progress and advancement in science has no meaning. We want to show off to the world that India can send a mission to moon but not give modern weapons and arms to our policemen. We need to modernize our police force, give teeth to anti-terrorist laws and strengthen our intelligence services.
When USA and UK can control terror why can’t we?
The anti-social elements have already become very bold and their numbers are increasing day by day. Some say this Bombay terrorist act is an intelligence failure.
The terror in Bombay is more than intelligence failure – it is a country’s failure.
It is almost sure that like every time this time too our government will come out with false promises, will act initially and if no terrorist act happens for another month it will again become laid back and forget everything until such time when such a ghastly incident happens again.
The fact is that a common man cannot do anything. This is not a war which a common man can fight. Only our government can fight this war but surely we common men can force the government to act.
We need to start a mass public moment and put pressure on the government to provide its citizens safety of life which is completely missing today.
Nothing else will do.
It is already late… tomorrow it may be too late.
Also read: Civilian security is a joke, and the joke is on you
Please also ask questions to self styled intellectuals and human(!) rights activists…(Arundhati Roy to Teesta setalwad)
= is this a fake episode, where 150+ people are killed in a stage managed episode?
= were the police officers killed by their own colleagues?
= is this HINDU terrorism?
HOW COME THESE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE SILENT WHEN “REAL HUMANS” ARE GETTING KILLED IN MUMBAI?
(Instead of appearing in the media for cheap publicity in Malegaon case – for nearly a month – ATS should have done the job of finding terrorist plans!)
Don’t blame the country for the failure of its leaders. The dance of death in Mumbai is not country’s failure. It is solely the result of failure of Dr.Manmohan “timid” Singh, Shivaraj “natty” Patil and Sonia “Sphinx” Gandhi, who have pandered to vote bank politics and have refused to investigate terrorist acts, for the frivolous reason that such investigation would necessarily lead to Muslim society. These people alone are accountable for all the dead and injured persons in the terror attacks.
In the last six months, almost every part of of the country has seen bomb blasts, north, east, south, west. Barring brave statements, we have seen no action. On the other hand, we are lectured by these worthy leaders not to target “a community” on account of terrorism. If this “holy community” is really so innocent, who were the two local people that met the the murderous army, harboured them for five hours, before they embarked upon the dance of death?
Who converted each terror attack into a communal issue? None other than these worthy secularists. Where are the leaders who rush to the defence of Muslims at the drop of a pin? The communists, Lallu, Mulayam, Rambilas Paswan, Deve Gowda of this country’s political spectrum.
In the radio ad, we are exhorted that each Indian is a soldier in the war on terror! We are actually the canon fodder – untrained citizens are exhorted to act as warriors on terror!
In the last twenty five years of living with terror, neither we the citizens have been educated, nor the governments have learnt any lesson. It took one 9/11 to protect USA from all terror attacks since then. It took one tube train blast to protect UK from all future attacks. But, in India, even weekly terror attacks do not galvanize the governments into action.
After this experience at Mumbai, if anti-terrorism does not become an election plank, may be, we the Indians do not deserve to live together as a country.
“When USA and UK can control terror why can’t we?”
Well, answer – vote bank.
It’s same in US as well. That’s why they can’t seem control drug peddlers and gun related violences even after pouring billions into it.
Unfortunately, we have a sizable population in our society who are sympethatic towards Islamic radicals and their ideology. You get an idea of magnitude of the problem when you realize that there are terror cells in small towns like Bantwal and Kasaragod! It’s not Kashmir anymore. It’s entire India.
When you have a Government that is hell bent on playing vote bank politics by allowing illegal BD immigrants to settle in the country and provide them all comforts, and refuse to deport them this is bound to happen.
When you have a government which refuses to setup fast track courts to try the terrorists and follow through with the court verdicts this will continue to happen.
When a government refuses to carry out the order of the supreme court to hang a convicted terrorist who struck at the very root of our democracy, to garner votes of the minorities this is bound to happen.
When you have a government which does not understand the seriousness of the problem at hand and vacillates, without setting up a autonomous home land security department with sweeping powers to check terrorist attacks, this is bound to happen.
When you have a NSG who is more interested in chewing paan and less interested in taking any concrete measures to root out this menace this is bound to happen.
Everything else is only wishful thinking.
I think the vast majority of our brethren will agree that all politicians, irrespective of party affiliation, are the most dehumanized, greedy and bloodsucking species in the country.
All I was hoping to see is LK Advani and MM Singh work on this together. Whether it causes any difference on the ground is debatable, but the public message that it will send would have been immensely encouraging.
Advani was at it almost as soon as he got his first sound byte – “Yeh Prashasan ki taraf se bahut hi badi laparvaahi hai..” blah blah blah
The less said about the effeminate Home Minister, the better.
As an aside, Sandeep Unnikrishnan of the NSG lost his life in the operation. South Indian (Kerala?). Raj Thakeray should have stopped him at the airport itself, no? He should have sent the NSG back and gone in with his band of thugs and raided the Taj, isn’t it?
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, pre-eminent Indian novelist, said in 1920s after seeing the disaster of “Khilafat movement”, “the Hindu Muslim problem we have can be solved in a day when Hindus unite cutting across languages, caste barrier”. Alas, even after giving up 33% of India, we are under greater attack.
Indian Military did Samjhuta: Mumbai ATS and Indian media have done worst damage to India by dragging Col Purohit into Samjhuta blast , though it was denied later. But damage is already done. Ex Aide of Musharraf Gen Qureshi is now saying before Times Now that Indian Military Intelligence was responsible for Samjhuta. We have a PM without any political root. After Mumbai 711, he changed his position within 24 hours, signed HAVANA declaration equating perpetrators of terrorism with its victim.
Nothing is going to happen. India will continue bleed, our economy will continue to be affected. Social tension will become move southward.
Islamic Jehad has struck big India in a big way- and this is not the end. Its just the beginning.
The latest hypocrisy of Indian media – Cite Western success against Terror on their land but conveniently ignore measures taken by them to acheive that success.
I’ll tell you, if the Indian State took similar measures, you would have the Liberal harem up and about in holy rage and hysteria!
All this talk coming from the Liberal media should be taken with truck loads of salt. These self same, will turn into scavenging hyenas if their “sincere” counsel is acted upon. Just look at how they perceived the same Western success just a while back!
Why not impose President’s Rule in Maharashtra since it is clear that State Govt has no control over the situation and army is doing their job.
We have dozens of people dead (compared to ZERO deaths in Karnataka Church attacks), but we had people like Kumawat (Central Internal Security Secreatary) air dashing to Mangalore/Udupi and making threatening noises.
This is what happens when these high level people are sent to do Pandu Havaldar’s work for their masters, in this case Sonia who threatened Central Rule in Orissa and Karnataka.
Also it is very curious to see Sonia’s behaviour. She wants and has all the power but does not want to own up any responsibility – I am 100% sure Shivaraj Patil – her handpicked “yes” man for the job – will be made scapegoat but in the end no one will question Sonia.
Mumbai ATS was too busy inventing “Hindu Terrorism” to keep an eye on Muslim Militants!
only a fool would expect a group/organisation of a few thousand ppl to protect a populace of more than 1.1 billion when there are millions of ppl working to kil these ppl, not to forget the ppl who are among these billion odd members wanting to kill the rest!!!
past record does not matter. while intellectual apathy might have blinded them to real conditions, this is not the time to undermine the authority we have, this is the time to put our faith behind our leadership.
once we get back our country and have stabilized the situation, then is the time to analyse and rend the careers of intellectuals who undermined the sovereignty and security of the country.
I second everything said by Sujata Rajpal. It is high time the public pressurized the government – Gandhian ways of civil disobedience might be the answer.
“Forgiving a terrorist- Must be left to “GOD”
But fixing their appointment with “GOD” is our responsibility”
-Indian Army
Police Constable Ambadas Ramchandra Pawar
Police Constable Chite
Police Constable Jaywant Patil
Police Constable Khandekar
Police Constable MC Chaudhary
Police Constable Yogesh Patil
Police Inspector Shashank Shinde
Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar
Police Sub Inspector Durgude
Police Sub Inspector Prakash More
Additonal CP Ashok Kamte
Assnt SI Nanasaheb Bhosale
Jt CP Hemant Karkare
amar rahe.
Why bring the Moon Mission into everything?!
Its a Paltry 400 crores that they have spent to Put India UP there among the biggies. Just the 5th country to do so, in the whole World. And, because of this, they bring in the confidence of other countries to use or Launch Vehicles to send their satellites. And, the most economical and reliable one at it. A definite source of income which ISRO is utilizing VERY EFFICIENTLY for all the amazing things being done there. It is ROCKET Science, Damn it.
If you really want to talk sarcastic, talk about something else. Leave the Moon Mission Alone.
There are other Thousands of crores being siphoned off by the government and nobody seems to point out. Talk about the Flyovers being constructed for 50 – 100 crores… and half of it is eaten off by the babus.
Yes. It is Frustration shown because of the events happening around.
yes…teesta setalvad and arundhati roy will scream bloody murder if muslims are questioned…..I wish they were holed up in taj for a rendevous with innocent …
Before any investigation can start on mumbai we have to fix that cunning woman sadhvi with extreme meditative powers…all else can wait.
Bloody eunuch indians…they show their guts on a helpless sadhvi.
Our PM must have slept well for the last few days. ‘Wake up man’ and take some drastic measures in the interest of the country and not your political party.
TS,
Agree. Karkare can appear in another list, perhaps? That would be List of Police killed in action for being in the wrong place at the right time.
A fact often ignored : As PM and as FM, Manmohan Singh cut funds to our security forces year after year. Much to the dismay of the armed forces, his govt even discriminated against them on pay scales.
Soniaji and Manmohan will make the right political moves by visiting hospitals and giving speeches but will they answer the security personnel’s prayers for tougher laws?
Major Sandeep Unnikrishan’s family might have heard of the dishonor to the security personnel who laid their lives during the attack on Indian Parliament.
The hedious mind of the english press was revealed when Sagarika of CNN-IBN was trying to provoke with her shrill voice Ravi Shankar Prasad whether BJP will now cooperate with UPA govt as though the whole tragedy is now due to BJP.It is disgusting to watch both CNN-IBN and NDTV with their biased views Hindi media is far better for they are even handed,They are doing the signal disservice to India by creating disharmony and hatred and they some how always try to either refer to 1993 attack or 2002 Godhra One thing stands out in the Mumbai attack-the young girs reporting from the war like zone at considerable risk to their personal safety the precise happenings with such clarity and detail send a surge of pride in every Indian. Of course that goes for the young men too but it appears women are in majority. While everybody has been a hero , there is a universl condemnation of politicians as villians. Whether thery will wake up now is still to be seen. Having said that certainly all the TV media without exception needs to be appreciated for continuously keeping the people informed throuhgout the seige with evocative visuals without let up. The attack outstrips 9/11 by a mile for sheer barbarity and ruthlessness with which it was planned and executed. Endless supply of ammunitiononly indicates that insiders and those who gained employment in recent weeks must have helped.
H.R.Bapu Satyanarayana,
I watched that Sagarika Ghose show and it was disgusting. NDTV, specially Prannoy Roy and Burkha Dutt exposed themselves. They even said Pakistan also is a victim of terror and that we should join hands with them to fight it!!
Times Now coverage was the best especially the 9 to 10 shows with Arnab Goswami. He ripped apart the pseudo secs. He rightly brought up Batla encounter too. None of the pseudo secs could give convincing answers.
Arundathi Roy should now start working on the release of the captured terrorist. Our liberal hearts bleed just imagining what kind of torture and trauma that young and smart boy has to endure in the hands of the empire. He should be given a free and fair judicial trail and if found innocent (which we are convinced he is) he should be sent back with full honours to Islamabad/karachi through a one way Business class air India flight ticket.
The young man falsely implicated in the terrorist act belongs to a liberal and egalitarian religious ideology and was fighting the capitalist-zionist-Brahminical regressive forces. What more proof do we need when these men came all the way to finish of the Zoinist Jewish Rabbi.The terrorist struggle should be commended by all right (or rather left) thinking liberals. They attacked the very upper rich class five star Taj and Oberoi hotels. A sure indication of the brewing class warfare between the possesed and the dispossessed.
Hemanth Karkare’s death is also highly suspicious. What was this fifty four year old thinking when he donned the battle gear. How can a middle aged pot bellied police officer fight young hot blooded commandos. He surely was never in the forefront. He was killed by his own collegues to cover up the most diabolical secrets of Malegoan Hindu terrorism. All these need to be brought to the forefront of public discourse and we should fight against the sinster media cover up from the state.
HRBS,
A great comment! The next time TV presenters and camera men appear I am sure people will beat them up on location.
TS,
Sorry to keep bringing this one up again. This duffer Karkare single-handedly demolished the carefully investigated Samjhauta Express bombing and ensured that it gets pinned on Hindutva groups. Sure there are some bad elements there in that camp but this level of barbarism is beyond them. By the time the counsel for ATS retracted in open court about the same allegation the damage was done. Now some imbeciles and morons are claiming that Karkare was an able and upright officer!!
The self-important, pompous, mentally-challenged Doddi Buddi is actually one of the biggest problems facing this forum, and by extension, the country. A solution to the ‘Doddi Problem’ needs to be worked out soon, in the best interests of unity in the time of National crises.
hi sujatha…thanks for this
“Raj Thakeray should have stopped him at the airport itself, no? He should have sent the NSG back and gone in with his band of thugs and raided the Taj, isn’t it?”
And you, sir, are exactly doing what you wanted Advani to do… i.e., to be united!
Please.. let’s not discuss Raj, Thankrey and their ilk now. (I’ve received many emails that are purported to be humorous ..mocking Raj and Thakrey’s about how only marathi terrorists should be allowed to kill only marathi people in mumbai and blah blah).
H.R.Bapu Satyanarayana & Hiker:
What you wrote about NDTV and CNN-IBN is shared by large majority of middle class Indians (who incidentally are their biggest viewer). They have lost their CREDIBILITY. And we know what happens when journos loose their credibility.
Arnab of Times Now told the ultimate truth: THOSE WHO DEMAND KASHMIR BE GIVEN UP ARE NOT MEMBER OF INDIAN’S CIVIC SOCIETY. This is the bare truth.
Gone are those days of single media and manipulation. These anti-national medias are condemned to gutter of history, and the way they are performing- they will reach there sooner than expected.
What will happen to the son of soil theory of the Thakare family now. Were all the police men and the commando’s who were responsible for the liberation of Mumbai were all Marathi’s? Will at least now wise council prevail?!
dharma – That theory stays. Hopefully, the Biharis and the UPites will realize to build their own economies so that we won’t have to depend on just one “commercial capital”.
There you go.
The result of “all party meeting” was :
1. To set up federal agency (did we not hear this already??)
2. To ask nee beg for “consensus”.
PM said that political parties should rise above politics and be united… United my ass. What will happen if all parties “unite” and say “stop terror”… will the terrorists run away??
I am a cynic and this fvcking govt will do nothing that proves me wrong….
Our “leaders” are morons……
PAKISTAN-JEHADISTAN-TERRORISTAN:TRIPLE-STAN
By S.P. Attri ( USA )
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1. Pakistan/ Jehadistan/ Terroristan. This land of the Pak ( pure ) is the terrain of triple-stan ( or triple-satan ). Its injudicious people have been brain-washed into Kafir-Hatred, and extra-strength Jehad, by the imbecilic grease monkeys of Islam ( Islamic-Clergy ), through promises of a sure ticket to Janat ( Moslem’s Paradise ), which is the goal of every single Moslem.
It does not occur to imprudent Moslems that, these promises are big-fat lies, and what they are getting is., a Bum-Dope from the Islamic Clergy..
Worse yet, every Moslem ( especially Pakistani ) is taught that, Allah has bought Islam’s Followers, in exchange for the gift of Janat, provided they fight in the way of Allah, provided they kill & get killed. This is a promise binding upon Allah, and who can fulfill this covenant truer than Allah ?
2. This contract, between Allah & his Moslems, reveals the real nature of Allah & his Jehad. This contract will not be considered a Legal-Contract, in any court of a civilized country. It is Not a legal contract, but it is Binding ( upon the Moslem ). This contract exposes Allah’s morality &demonstrates that:
Allah has no respect for human life. Every civilized society regards murder as the most heinous crime, but Allah considers this horrid-activity ( Jehadic-Killing ) as a Sacred-Duty of the Moslem. Allah declares that this contract is so beneficial to a Moslem that, he ranks it as a bargain.
To make sure that Believers ( that is, Moslems ) commit these kinds of detestable-misdeeds, Allah assures the Believers that he ( Allah ) is the best keeper of promises. Thus with these kinds of promises, Allah legalizes all horrors of murder, war, and immorality.
Further, Jehad is not ordinary, run-of- the mill, contract. It is a Divine-Command ( of Allah ), which ranks it into the same category, as the five basic cannons of Islam. What is noteworthy here is that, Allah encourages believers to be “ Willing-Terrorists ,“ with promises of protection & very attractive rewards in Janat. In one Hadis ( House of Imran ), Allah asks:
“ Those believers who have been slain in the way of Allah, are not dead, so why should they be afraid of death ? “
Read-out of this question is simplicity itself. It means that Allah wants his believers to, continue their acts of terrorism, without any qualm, concern, or compunction.
3. It appears from Quran ( Allah’s Commands ) that Terrorizing Kafirs ( Non-Moslem Infidels ) is the Basic ( and Sacred ) duty of a Moslem.
Is anybody surprised at the recent terrorist-attack on the city of Mumbai ? This terrorist-attack is 100 % Jehad, and totally in compliance with the teachings of Islam.
Think of the great evil that has befallen on this world, as a result of Hazrat Mohammad‘s fanaticism. Think of hundreds of millions of innocent Kafirs, who have been murdered through his despicable-teachings, mothers bereft of their children, children made orphans, whole countries & cultures destroyed, and hundreds of millions of innocent people massacred.
Moslems are taught that, every ritual, form, image, or ceremony , carried out by a Kafir ( Non-Moslem ) is Kufr ( Sinful ). The Moslem does not think so, when it comes to his own shrine of Kaaba. Every Moslem, wherever he prays, must imagine that he is standing before the Kaaba. When he makes a pilgrimage to Kaaba, he must kiss the black-stone ( an idol ) in the wall of the shrine. But Moslems have never been accused of being either terribly smart or immoderately consistent. In fact, they are highly deviant & contradictory.
4. Regardless, however, Islamic religion allows a Moslem to kill Kafirs, that is, all those who are not of his religion. It is “ clearly “ stated in Quran:
“ Kill the Kafirs ( Infidels ) if hey do not becomes Moslems. They must be put to fire & Sword. “
In the entire history of mankind, there has not been a religion, which has shed so much blood, and which has been so cruel to Kafirs ( Non-Moslems ) as Islam. Quran’s teaching to Moslems is that:
“ It is a mercy to kill Kafirs ( Non-Moslems ), and it a sure way for a Moslem to get to Janat ( Moslem’s Paradise ), where he will have the wildest-sex with 72 houries. “
Think of the colossal amount of blood that has been shed by Moslems, in pursuance of this imbecilic belief of Islam.
History of India is filled to repletion, with accounts of Moslem’s barbarism against the Kafir-Hindu. Wave after wave of Moslem barbarians rolled over, the sacred land of our Bharat Varsha. “ Allah Ho Akbar “ has rent the skies of India, for hundreds of years. No Hindu knew what moment would be his last.
A Moslem’s watchword is:
“ There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet “
Every thing else beyond that is only bad, and must be destroyed forthwith.
5. Because of these teachings of Islam, a Moslem has believed that:
The Hindu is idolatrous, hateful-Kafir, hence in this life he deserves to be killed, and in the next, eternal hell is in store for him
Is there any doubt in anybody’s mind that, Islam has a commitment to high level of brutality & barbarism, against the Kafirs of the world ?
5. What should the Hindus do ?
The Hindus ought to be unsparing in dealing with, the ruthless Jehadis of Islam, and crack the hell out of Pakistan.
Surinder Paul Attri