Finally biting the bullet on writing something on the 26/11 incident. Why so late? Reams and reams has already been written and said about the incidents. How we are all so angry with the government for letting us down, how we are angry with our "terror hub"/"global migraine" neighbor - pakistan.
A lot has been written about the role of our media too! Our media has been accused of reporting which has caused more loss of life by reporting the positions of our security forces. I don't know if the hindi media is more to blame for this or what because I am sure I was following the english channels and they were reporting the incidents at the hotels with a time-lag of 30 minutes. Whatever you blame the media for, I feel proud that we have a free-press like the one our nation has. Every Indian has been raging mad with our government for the intelligence failures which led to this catastrophic event. And everyone of us wanted to be heard in this time of anger. And I am proud that we excercised our democracy through our media. Our media carried our mood exactly the way it was to the corridors of power and things started to happen. If we had waited for democracy to take it's usual course we'd have to wait till the next general election to make public our mood. But due to the pressure that our media created, the by-now famously weak home minister Mr.Shivraj Patil was given the kick in his a$$ that he deserved, the new home minister apologised to the peopl on behalf of the government, the state kicked their CM and dy.CM, the US has exerted pressure on pak to act on their terrorists. Our media has many faults but this time I am happy that they have brought some closure to our anger.
Talking about media, I've been following what the paki media has been saying about all this. True to their always-in-self-denial image, they never pick up stories which point towards paki elements being involved in the incident. They would pick up news items which shows how indian people are discontent with their leaders, how indian intelligence failures led to this incident, how their politicians blame indian-bred elements causing all this. Here's the big difference between these two countries: Indian media doesn't spare the indians who caused the malegaon or godhra riots, but paki media would close their eyes to such involvements of their countrymen in the hope that nobody, too, is noticing it. We as a country are much more mature and free than our neighbors. I feel sad for the poor people of that country. I can only think of one way to relieve the poor bastards of their miseries and i.e. if somebody drops a big bomb on that country to wipe it off the world map :)
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