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The past few days have been very sad times for me as an Indian, a passport I still hold but a country I cannot identify with any longer. When will we as a nation realize, accept, and change all the malaise we find ourselves under? We've just had a stampede at one of our major Hindu temples which believe it or not killed 5 times as many people as the serial bomb blasts over two major cities. Has commercialization and capitalism become so strong that we cannot criticize this injustice being meted out on people who want to visit a temple at the end of a day, just as a few NRIs amongst us want to log on to this website to read my junk?
We've had SIMI, a terrorist(by circumstantial evidence, in case someone wants to get technical) organization lifted the ban on. Not sure how much effect it will have on the ground because these monsters have a way of growing unseen hands but what message does it send out to the world? Will be able to ask Pakistan and America to curb down on LeT with a straight face keeping such a laughable record? How has some no name justice been given authority to decide on what is terrorist and what is not? Is it really a coincident that all past few attacks have been indicted towards SIMI in the past few years? We might as well then brush aside attacks by LeT as collateral damage. This judgement highlights the need of a strong anti terrorism law, not on individuals(where it can be misused) but on organizations.
An already thinned down intelligence agency is facing tremendous odds and we are letting governments after governments survive unscathed! Where is the pilgrimage bill which was introduced two decades ago to avoid catastrophes like Naina Devi? I bet 90% people reading this would not be even aware of such a thing as the pilgrimage bill!
Narmada continues to cry through it's former residents. There are at least a few websites where the poor Kashmir Pundits can air their grievances against Islamic terrorism, but what about twice that number displaced by the grand Indian ideas of creating dams, dams, and bloody damns! Those people protest somewhere on the outskirsts of the Narmada delta where there is no one to listen to their voice and they cry and sleep hoarse without any refugee camps because their problem is not even officially recognized.
Till when are we going to take the dirt thrown over from our governments? I can't say, I don't have the right to say, but hopefully not for too long........
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Sometimes I wonder how our beloved country survives and even competes with the rest of the world. Its a modern day wonder.
Reliance Industry has helped many many poor/middle class people to make some money over the years. If Ambani wants to build a billion dollar mansion, why should he be criticized. His billion dollar mansion will give work to lot of labors, contractors.