Mumbai Calling… SOS

It is not just Mumbai which is calling out loud for some help and assistance now, it is whole of India shouting out loud and there isn’t anyone to perhaps listen and reach out.
Mumbai is currently the brightest city in the country with non-stop blasts and fire raids, the terrorist attacks surely has increased the value of our dear city and what exactly do we all do, sit back and relax and watch whatever the media is showing us. As for the so-called “Mumbai wasis” they enjoy all the fun real and live by getting onto the streets or better the check points where they can see live terrorist activities.
After the best of hotels been exploited and exposed, with tones of bullets and grenades in hands and with the guts even to steal a police van and shoot openly in the middle of the road, there isn’t any doubt remaining about the fact that our dear terrorists are real rock stars. And for the not-so cool police officials, who unfortunately lost their lives in the combat (3 of the best they had in the police force of Mumbai till yet), are mere fools to have done so. Without proper ammunitions and amenities, it’s the job of a politician to jump into the site and yet come out perfectly safe and sound. With some of our famous celebrity politicians planning a visit, more of a holiday to Mumbai, it is an earnest request to them that please stay out of all of it. Already the rescue procedure is lagging behind and your starry presence might just interfere with our not so very important job of getting the terrorists out of the city.
It is a shame that our efforts of trying to save our motherland from the outside disturbances has come to this now. It has been more than just mere 24 hours that Mumbai has been under attack and what we read in the papers or see in the Television just adds up to out daily requirement of spicy news everyday. What are we doing? Are we supposed to be the mute spectators of life forever and ever? Is life all about being coward and maintaining a distance from things which haven’t affected us personally?
A simple conversation with my parents and I realized that any person can do anything for a mere sum of 20lacs where it takes a lifetime for common people like us to earn it. Thus even if we get to see pictures of guys who are hardly between 20-25 years of age we shouldn’t be surprised cause they are the real bidders of life. Investing their life for a lifetime security of their family, even though the one who earns isn’t any more to enjoy all the luxuries money can buy.
I don’t exactly know how my mind has proceeded on the topic but all I can think of now is how all of my family members and relatives are safe and sound and how this incident in Mumbai hasn’t affected any single member of my family. But in the process I forget that it has done something far worse than to directly affect anyone of us being actually present or absent from the real situation. How will our future generations look back and react to such a situation? Perhaps soon our children too will have chapters dealing with the terrorist acts of 9/11 or 26/11[“Chabbis ki Diwali”]. Instead of Munna and Circuit we might have chapters on our dear terrorists who lost their lives for a noble cause, the noble cause of spreading terrorism and violence, plundering and bloodshed. The time has come now when history will soon repeat its own self, when soon the country will be under the shackles of being ruled and dominated by another civilization. Let’s all just pack our bags and be ready for the new generation which is coming its way with the little lamb turning black and the cousin brothers still ruling the world.
All this just lead me to asking some questions, but I know not whom to ask them to? So I just type them out here, right now. Why our country isn’t ready for a war and what we are facing now is exactly a war situation and why don’t we have means to overcome it? Why does our system lag behind everything? Why aren’t the citizens of the country coming out of their rat holes and showing that we aren’t scared? Terrorism causes terror and fear among people, and we all are aware of the fact. But isn’t there a means to fight one’s fear? Aren’t the politicians just ready to forget the fact that they are from the ruling or the opposition party and get together to fight for the one common cause, the cause of saving their motherland, India? Thousands and hundreds of reports will come up in the papers and websites and so on, but isn’t there a single voice which can come up with a suggestion to fight and do away with this terrorism and not be terrorized by it anymore?

What I can think of right now is be mentally prepared to face any situation of emergency. Be prepared for the worst of times which is yet to come and God forbid shouldn’t come even. I lack answers to offer to my future generations who might pin-point at me and stare and glare at me with their numerous questions and all I can do is run away and hide from those torturous questions which might expose the fact that I was a coward and I couldn’t do anything for my country. But I have to prove everyone wrong and would ask everyone out there to be active and not dormant participants in life. Our duties and responsibilities towards our country should never be forgotten. If possible try and join politics, prove the age old statistics which says that all nearly 80% of the politicians are corrupt. Be an active member of the society you live in and when the right time comes one shouldn’t be afraid to even give their lives up for reasons which are far nobler than our mere existence in an emotionless society. And let us not forget those heroes who have lost their souls for saving us…let us all come together to salute their courage and their attitude to either “do or die”. Even though they might not be remembered and cherished forever in the pages of history, let our minds and hearts not forget the fact that our peaceful existence is only because someone out there has given up his/her life to save ours.
SOS isn’t just a call to save our souls; it’s a cry of the modern man in this wasteland called modern life and living. Help your own selves to help others. Reach out to those who need us the most. Save your motherland to save your own hands from being dirty. And let us all wish that the perfumes of Arabia should soon sweeten the smell of blood which our country is shedding so piously.