Look at the way USA reacted at a single incident of a terror attack. Let us salute them for keeping their intensity to fight against terrorism still alive and burning even after a decade. They have refused to forget the incident. They did not decide to make a Hospital or a Church-Masjid-combine structure to mark it as a place of solidarity and instead has used the place as a reminder-memorial of the same incident. It is only for this reason that nobody could stop them from crushing terrorism on their soil even if it amounted to ignoring several human rightists’ discomforts and not paying heed to their genuine displeasures. Media was never fed with the incidents of atrocities and instead showed tremendous restraint in releasing pictures mostly from the viewpoint of the terror-sufferers. The atrocities suffered by any group in the aftermath of that particular incident were hinted at by some of our own film-producers in movies like NEWYORK, KURBAAN and MY NAME IS KHAN (based on some imagined-concocted stories) instead of their own media. Governments changed but not their desire to nail and eliminate Laden. And their entire effort sums up with their success in showing the world that it never happened again in USA.
We have however mastered the art of forgetting all terror strikes. Our media is in a habit of taking pains in showcasing the fact that the life is normal in a city just on the next day of a terror-attack. We are made to believe that terror-attacks are meant only for disturbing our mirage of communal harmony of the city and as if our victory lies only in the fact that the government and the people did not allow a riot to follow the attack. We are made to remember umpteen pictures of riot-victims crying for help with folded hands by releasing them again and again but are helped in forgetting apathy of terror-victims by showing more than enough visuals to prove that life is back to normal just the next day of a terror attack. This attitude is not new to us as we have often exhibited our resilience by forgetting even some age-old (forgotten?) terror attacks on temples in Somnath, Ayodhya and Mathura etc. It is for these reasons that instead of eliminating our own Ladens we engage ourselves in finding reasons in the arguments favoring acts of the likes of Qasabs and Afzals.
Thankfully it has also not happened again in Gujarat. Though not intended to, but here again our media and some NGO-entrepreneurs has helped us in not forgetting the ugly incident of Godhra carnage as they try to remind us, time and again, of the unfortunate riots that broke after that. Though I will not like to have a choice between i) a single riot followed by a permanent peace and ii) frequent terror-strikes with no riots, but would at least prefer to preserve the memory of a terror incident in the manner US remembered it. USA could tackle terrorism without falling into the trap of rioting because the government used a free hand to crush terror with approval of its overwhelming majority. Majority sat and observed as the government acted with a clear intention/vision. On the other hand, I just wonder how one is expected to react to a sinister campaign against Modi, continuing for way to long, for wanting him to apologize (for God knows what ?) as he is still to be exposed for his involvement, if any, in the riots/fake encounters. For some strange reasons however, although not difficult to speculate, they have never demanded similar apologies from Qasabs/Afzals/Geelanis/Malliks/Mehboobas/Omars and family members of those proven terrorists who were allegedly killed in fake encounters.
We have however mastered the art of forgetting all terror strikes. Our media is in a habit of taking pains in showcasing the fact that the life is normal in a city just on the next day of a terror-attack. We are made to believe that terror-attacks are meant only for disturbing our mirage of communal harmony of the city and as if our victory lies only in the fact that the government and the people did not allow a riot to follow the attack. We are made to remember umpteen pictures of riot-victims crying for help with folded hands by releasing them again and again but are helped in forgetting apathy of terror-victims by showing more than enough visuals to prove that life is back to normal just the next day of a terror attack. This attitude is not new to us as we have often exhibited our resilience by forgetting even some age-old (forgotten?) terror attacks on temples in Somnath, Ayodhya and Mathura etc. It is for these reasons that instead of eliminating our own Ladens we engage ourselves in finding reasons in the arguments favoring acts of the likes of Qasabs and Afzals.
Thankfully it has also not happened again in Gujarat. Though not intended to, but here again our media and some NGO-entrepreneurs has helped us in not forgetting the ugly incident of Godhra carnage as they try to remind us, time and again, of the unfortunate riots that broke after that. Though I will not like to have a choice between i) a single riot followed by a permanent peace and ii) frequent terror-strikes with no riots, but would at least prefer to preserve the memory of a terror incident in the manner US remembered it. USA could tackle terrorism without falling into the trap of rioting because the government used a free hand to crush terror with approval of its overwhelming majority. Majority sat and observed as the government acted with a clear intention/vision. On the other hand, I just wonder how one is expected to react to a sinister campaign against Modi, continuing for way to long, for wanting him to apologize (for God knows what ?) as he is still to be exposed for his involvement, if any, in the riots/fake encounters. For some strange reasons however, although not difficult to speculate, they have never demanded similar apologies from Qasabs/Afzals/Geelanis/Malliks/Mehboobas/Omars and family members of those proven terrorists who were allegedly killed in fake encounters.
Love him or hate him and one may also not approve of the alleged technique adopted by Narender Modi to stop riots and eliminate terrorism from his state but we can not ignore the fact that unlike the economic slowdown faced by USA during the last decade he has managed to put Gujarat on the map of development and has been able to place the state way ahead of others. Obviously overwhelming majority of his state must not have treated him as untouchable and must have had supported him in his effort to help the state in attaining this state as he could not have achieved that single-handedly.
