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