THOSE 60 HOURS WHICH CHANGED INDIA...

Dear all,First of all i wish to thank Srinivas Sir, Harjeet Sir, Ashish, Rupesh, Abhishek and Pratyush for their wishes...Wishing a very happy married life to Deepika and Piyush...But all this euphoria and enthusiasm evaporates when I think about the tragedy at India's best city Mumbai...Once again a bunch of maniac thugs have struck and take the toll of innocent lives...This is perhaps the most audacious attack on India...THE MAXIMUM CITY has a history of violence atleast since 1993 riots and subsequent bomb blasts but the latest ones have increased the vulnerability of every Indian many times...These attacks were part of ongoing global menace of terrorism whose prime targets are USA, UK, Israel and India...Without doubt this episode raises serious doubts about the capability of our intelligence system and the inability of Congress govt. at centre to deal the menace with an iron fist...But that in no way means that I have begun to support BJP...I still strongly believe that they are a bunch of opportunists who lustfully turn every event communal...For their PM in waiting Muhammad Ali Jinnah was more secular than Mahatma Gandhi or Nehru...Anyway political comments apart, the BJP has done no good to the nation by communalising the ongoing terror probe of Malegaon blasts...Till last week honorable next PM was asking for the head of ATS officers for being biased against Hindu fundamentalists...Little did they realize about the damage they were doing to the psyche of the officers involved who were definetely more qualified and competent than Advani ji who thinks that Bhagat Singh was executed for Assembly Bombing rather than Saunders murder case (Refer My Country my life by Advani ji)...Now there is a chance for the BJP motor mouths to apologise to the nation and the family of Hemant Karkare the ATS chief who died fighting the terrorists...But all this cannot absolve the incumbent government of it's responsibility and I believe that Congress is going to face it's biggest defeat ever in state and general elections in the coming months...BJP I think and partly wish as well will be back to Power...That will be the moment of reckoning for the nation at large...They MUST learn the fact that TERROR HAS NO RELIGION...They MUST admit that Fundamentalism whether it is Islamic or Hindu is equally dangerous...They MUST realise that in the longer term the most effective weapon to tackle the menace is through reconcilation between communities and not by pitting them against each other...They MUST remember that following the middle path of reconcilation by infusing trust and mutual understanding between differnet sections of society and not by invoking the historical wrongs done in the past by the rulers of one community against another...This has been illustrated successfully by the recent phenomenon of BARACK OBAMA...He has won admirers all across the world...Anyway the purpose of mine writing this mail was not to raise political points but to praise the real heroes like Hemant Karkare (54 years old IPS officer, he never gave a second thought while leading his men from the front...For him a terrorists was simply a terrorists, he never asked him his religion), Ashok Kamte, Salaskar, Unnikrishnan and a dozen other officers and many other unsung heroes as well whose virility, audacity and nationalism was much mre inspiring than the thuggery in the name of CULTURAL NATIONALISM (Raised for likes of hindu extremists by BJP wallahs)...An interesting SMS has been doing rounds doing a mockery of Raj Thackeray asking about where he was when the city was besieged...Was he suffering from Dysentry meanwhile the NSG and naval commandos who constitute every liguistic group or religion were laying their lives for the sake of the Nation...i don't have enough words to praise them but I bow my head for their courage and sacrifice...Jai Hind Mayank

I love my country.........

Since my school days i have read a lot about India,and the more i know about it,the more i am left wanting for,It is truly a nation of paradoxes......They call it Unity in Diversity but this unity is present only in a form of a fabric which tears apart at the slightest provocation....May it be Noakhali or Kolkatta in 1946 or the Mumbai of 1993,no city or region is untouched with the experiences of hatred,a tiny event can make the masses thirsty of blood as they did in Gujarat in 2001.

Anyway,but i think that is not new for India,when the earliest of the texts i.e. Rigveda was being composed there were bloody battles going on in the areas west-northwest of Ganges b/w racially different Aryans and the Indus Valley People who probably were Dravidians.As the time moved,the centre of battles and more importantly FUSION among the invaders and opressers took place unstoppingly in almost two thousand years giving rise to the variety in form of Jatis,Castes and sometimes Religions.
The land northwest has been witness to some of the bloodiest wars in history since the days of Cyrus the great.......Then there was a fusion due to the contact first with Persians then Greeks,then again the central Asian tribes and the process went on and on but sadly the great nation in the process drew itself into its shell forming various Jatis,Castes and Religions to preserve their purity of blood.....There are even the evidences of incestous marriages in order to preserve the so called purity......The people who tried to get out of it by converting their religions carried their place in the society with them.

But the big question is that till when this will be sustained......Can the nation hold itself against such opposing forces.......The question is open to all the readers.......