Exactly ten years ago India went through one of the most gruesome wars with Pakistan. The war was broadcasted on the television sets in every living room and people watched how our men fought with valor and died with dignity for Indians and India. We were able to watch the war in the comfort of our homes because we knew we were safe, because we had complete faith in our men in that they will thwart any deleterious aspirations of the enemy. We watched them beam with confidence as they captured bunker after bunker in one of the most inhospitable environments. Watching them our hearts swelled with pride and our convictions were made all the more stronger that they will return victorious. But now, 10 years later, some people seemed to have forgotten it or rather been ignoring it. Our politicians of course are in the limelight again. Only if somebody could remind them that the Indian men in uniform do not fight or work for one political party. They fought for the nation and died for the nation, and I think they deserve a lot of respect and honor from everyone. While one politician says, “Kargil isn't a thing to be celebrated. The war was fought within our territory. We didn't even come to know when the Pakistani army crossed over and built bunkers inside our territory. It's only the NDA which may celebrate,” the other one doesn’t even remember when the war was fought and won. Forget big national level celebrations, government isn’t even going to give a thank you speech for the services provided by our men. What a big boost of morale our men will receive.
Can’t they shun playing crass politics for once and pay homage to the Kargil war heroes which they so rightfully deserve? This just goes to show that we are represented by some of the most callous, hypocrite and undeserving people. A big disappointment comes from Prime Minister Singh who took out time to attend the Bastille Day Parade in France. Perhaps he too has forgotten Kargil and its heroes.
There is this Hindi poem "OOnchaai"(Heights)by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee which ends with this line:
"My Lord, Never let me climb so high that I can't bend down to embrace another human. Deliver me ever from such arrogance."
4 comments:
i was in the country at the time. and the cricket world cup was on. both events got coverage. if i recollect, we had to play pak and we beat them and that in itself was considered another victory.
it did disturb that "our boys" continued playin when we were losin "our boys" a thousand miles away. i guess cricket will ALWAYS take precedence over everything. it IS after all religion. and with so much money involved, whats losin a few soldiers?
frustrating is not even a word to describe the apathy that flows so strong in our veins. we will talk and write and "pretend" scream. but, really, who are we kidding? a billion plus and we cant look two days ahead. why? simply because there is the inevitable class divide.
if what happened a few months ago isnt a wake up call, then i dont know what is............see we will remain what we are. yes yes yes, we are making progress, we have an IT industry that churns out more than the world can digest, we have the kamasutra (whoop-dee-doo) which btw is totally maligned and misdirected, politicians who think that beating up girls who try to "entice" muslim men in bars...wait what are muslim men doin in bars in the first place? (but thats unimportant) and policemen who partake in public humiliation of a woman (caught on camera and he has not even been suspended - yeah, this is so cool. cuz now i wanna go back 'home' and be a keeper of the law)...hmmm, what were talkin about again? i do get carried away. yeah, so "our boys" fought and died. and ten years on we wanna know if we can make more slumdogs and wonder if some retard is gonna marry something as disgusting as ms. sawant (hope i spelt her name right there).
hehe, im such a joy to be around. lol. fact be told, not much is gonna change. not for a while.
and yes i can swear and talk and curse. why? because i have stood alone before. perhaps my ideals my beliefs were naive foolish, i was young. im no wiser now. but i have learnt that patience is the key and when that time comes our dead heroes will lead.
I was all of 12 then and remember vaguely about the war and nothing about cricket.
You know I think that the root cause for most of these crimes in India is that a lot of people are "vella". What do a bunch of kids do when they are not occupied and run out of ideas?? They put on their mean act(telling you from experience, I wasn't always this saintly ;) ). One more thing..I think we need harsher punishments. A life sentence is not even a life sentence.
Yes I know that nothing is going to change anytime soon but we can always crib about these issues and pretend we are so much more wiser than these losers running the country... lol..
I just found out that a new president's helpline has been launched so I decided to crib there..hehe. http://helpline.rb.nic.in/
They will see a lot of me.
Well written.!
I have something similar here
http://nomadicmoments.blogspot.com/2009/07/remembering-martyrs-of-kargil.html
hey good thought... keep irrr up
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