Monday, December 1, 2008

What am I gonna do about My City?

Everyone has to have their say on the terror attacks. Here’s mine - what can we do style…
Contribute to a fund – for better weaponry and training for the police. For the victims – Modi’s money which will reach late anyways.
Professional counsellers / medics can donate time to victims’ families. What the hey, any of us can just sit with them and lend a helping hand, a listening ear.
We need to get more vigilant, more strict with ourselves. Entering a mall / theatre and the security doesn’t check you? Kick his / her arse and insist on being checked and it being done for those before / after you.
(Aside: There’s a theory that the USA will do anything to get Iran / Iraq oil – that’s why Bush went to war. So, the Yanks will do anything to control the neighboring countries – of which Pakistan is one. They pressurize Pak to co-operate with India and before long, we’ll be at war. Daddy Yankee comes in when we’ve blown each other to bits and gets easy access to the oil pipeline! Ta-dah!)
Get tougher on any little law that’s being broken in our city. Don’t litter / spit / endorse bribery / etc. Beat the shit out of the ones that do if Gandhigiri doesn’t work.
We are paying taxes anyway – which fat ass pocket is the money going into? Find out through RTI and weep.
The politicians get off easy by resigning – no responsibility for finding out solutions or investigating the facts anymore. OK they lose out on all the suitcases of money they could still make but… in a year or so they’ll be back if we don’t vote into power a party that believes in a better life for the citizens.
Page 3 types are doing their bit – yeah. But these are the movers and shakers, the dudes of big business who command crores of rupees. And they say ‘don’t take shit, fight back’. They are the guys who can change opinions, get the wrong people out and the right people in. Do that, and use your company’s profits to fund our police force’s equipment.
As for those cricketers - you wanna play on? In a series that is a wash-out anyway??? Lemme make it clear - I hate this game. Play for 5 days and it ends in a draw? Waste the country’s precious time - during a one-dayer everyone’s stopped work to watch the game?!?!?!
There’s more action in half hour of wrestling than your entire LIFE, cricketers! Give it a rest and do something for those people who feed you, support you, cry for you – just by watching your eff-all game. Give some of those crores you earn for your ads. They don’t need you to come to their homes for photo-opps. Just send the cheque to get the cops better weapons. And insist and follow-up, since you are such a great person, that the money is used towards the cause you’ve given it for.
Leave the Thackerays alone. They surely have a mighty Marathi "Sena" being prepped right now, to fly into Pakistan and bomb a few places or stroll around shooting Paki Page 3 types enjoying their 5-star buffets - or even wage a full blown face to face war with the terrorist-lovers. Or at least I hope that's what the silence is all about. Send out the lumpens to clean up Pak, Raj - the bus-burners, the taxi-smashers, the bullies who only fight in mobs, the lugs who beat women and children, the looters - and you get my vote next elections.
And STOP calling it “Mumbai’s 9/11”. Why ape the bloody Yanks in everything?? It’s MUMBAI / BOMBAY’s problem.
Those who have got actions like funds, counseling, etc going on – pls post here, so we can spread the word and get to business when the candles burn out.

4 comments:

LiFe_is_GooD said...

Everyone always commends the resilient spirit of Mumbai (Bombay) - and we've done it again, got back to normal so quickly. I'm sure CST (VT)was as crowded as ever today.

That said, we need to stop being complacent about terrorism and other disasters. We had the riots in 1992, bomb blasts in 1993, floods in 2005, train blasts in 2006 and now the terror attacks in 2008.

Clearly something is very wrong.

Our inept excuses for political leadership have resigned - RR Patil calling the three day attack a minor incident!, Vilasrao Deshmukh taking a director and his actor son on a 'tour' of the Taj! Out of Raj, Uddhav and Bal - not a peep! The tigers have slunk into their dens.

Their idea of their job constitutes changing the name of our city and every street and station in it, shutting dance bars, enforcing 10pm deadlines, banning smoking, encouraging divisions based on religion, language, caste and class.

And we let them get away with this every time! For the next election, let us ALL make use of 49-0 which allows us to go to the polling booth, mark our names on the roll and then NOT VOTE if there is no suitable candidate. If there are enough ZERO votes, the candidate cannot contest the re-election either. So, parties will be forced to put up decent guys.

Post the 1992 riots when we saw the Shiv Sena goondas on a spree of destruction - they got elected! HOW? BY WHO?
The same happened in Gujrat post the Godhra riots - Modi got elected. Why is this happening?

Did you see our much reviled pandus on TV? Chasing terrorists with AK-47's with their lathi sticks and rifles. Hemant Karkare and all were wearing helmets and bullet-proof vests from 1993 that could do nothing to stop the bullets. Modi had the gall to offer Karkares family Rs 1 crore after calling him a anti-national just a few days back when he was investigating the Malegaon blasts.

Why are we being so Gandhian about it all? Its time to kick some butt and I'm not talking about the last cigarette you smoked.

KIRAN CABRAL said...

Very good article - Kiran

Pamela said...

I totally agree. Your couldn't have been more precise in your views. Well written. Kudos to you!
Pamela.

Pamela said...

I totally agree. Your couldn't have been more precise in your views. Well written. Kudos to you!
Pamela.