The recent bombings in Agra for a moment upsets every Indian, but "our spirit to fight back" makes us move on. The frustration is no doubt there but it is like an annoying headache; you know it will disappear if you sleep on it. It seems that, there can be no two views, or two opinions here. Then why do I write alternatively India?
So, I am not going to post a prose/ essay on how something has to be done and all the hullabaloo that we see in the news, only for a day though, but just going to post something that was written on the day of the 13/7/ 2011 Mumbai serial blasts.
So, I am not going to post a prose/ essay on how something has to be done and all the hullabaloo that we see in the news, only for a day though, but just going to post something that was written on the day of the 13/7/ 2011 Mumbai serial blasts.
Hypocrites
- Harini Dedhia
The Headlines flash-
“Mumbai back on its feet” and
“The Mumbai spirit fights back”
And in a momentary lapse of judgment
I applaud those sitting in the local trains
going back to work having dealt with it all.
Dealt, with it all?
Change it.
Change it to haven’t dealt with it at all.
It is good to stay in a city like Mumbai,
where no one interferes in your life
It is bad to stay in a city like Mumbai,
where no one cares for your life.
The spirits of the dead
desperately searching for “the spirit of Mumbai”.
A wasted search;
The spirit does not exist.
Oh! Just there! I see the spirit!
We demand answers from the government!
We BLAME our politicians for stooping down,
playing the dirty politics – the BLAME game.
What Hypocrites we are!
1 comment:
I agree, all of this is leaving us to be increasingly insensitive to human life. No discussions, no time for reflection or expression... just go on with life...because we have no time!!!
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