To the countrymen............and women

Can i say good morning to all? can i because the calender shows May 23rd and it's just a day after the Twin Blasts at two of the cinema halls in Delhi and I am here thinking how abysmal has this world become...well i can't blame the world cause i haven't seen much part of it, so I'll share with you guys what signals i got through my retina which got processed in my brain and got stuck there, the images are still flashing in front of my eyes and are refusing to fade away, making feel nauseated and sick of........ no not the country... but some of my countrymen..with whom I share my nationality.......

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22nd March, 2005
8:25 pm
reports come on the screens about the first blast at LIBERTY on 24x7 NEWS channels, finally getting something gripping to air to the public, which they know will see atleast for the next 6 hours non-stop and will make them look concerned. So the screen lights up with all the gory images, which the news reader is quick to point out are the first images being telecast, exclusively on $$%@. Well the situation is grave and ppl are watching with gaping mouths, but then ..." ABHI WAQT HAI EK BREAK KA, APP HAMARE SAATH BANE RAHIYE, DEKHTE RAHIYE...#@$@#$",...so people also take their time out, calling out their family members, and telling them to charge up their CRTs. After the "Priya Gold..HAQ SE MANGO" advertisement, fianlly comes the pretty face on the screen...and the same clips shown repeatedly..non stop!!,,,,
25 minutes gone by and suddenly hell breaks loose...
NEWS READER:"I'll have to interrupt here but we have reports coming in that there is one more blast at another cinema hall..Satyam..Satyam...hello anil can you hear me..."
ANIL:(fiddling with his earplug...no response...,,)
N.R.: hello anil kya aap meri awaaz sin pa rahein hain. (....now in hindi, as if the cable will provide more bandwidth for our most respectfully insulted National Language.)
ANIL:("still not knowing where has he landed up....")
N.R.: "I think we have lost contact with our correspondent there..well we'll mve on to the Honourable #$#@ who's on phone with us.. so sir how garve is the law and order situation in the capital".
The BIG tummy dummy: well the situation is under control! (!!!!!!!!!!!!now what's that?? it's a bit funny..like opening the umbrella after getting all drenched and drained in the rain.)
N.R. : sir how big was the blast? Where from the explosives came? (...i wonder if the N.R. is thinking the man on the phone himself planted the explosive there...)
The BIG tummy dummy: hey..nothing to worry about.it wasn't a Big explosion, people hvn't got burns..only external injuries(...hmmm..so u get burns from inside..another imbecile! 1 dies, 500 ppl get injured, that too only an official figure, and he wants us to believe someone only farted!! )
-------------PHONE LINE GONE!!!!( must be a garuda connection!)--------------------
the N.R. looks horrorstruck guess what it was time for another commercial break and he's already 1 minute late in taking that...so he takes that and finally after the 10 minutes of lies and false promises on T.V. (..resembling a bit like the indian election campaign) ANIL gets connected.....ANIL the 007...yup he looks like one of the IIMA material and an expert in deductive reasoning,
ANIL:"hello newscenter...this is Anil from..LIBERTY.. according to reports reaching us there has been another blast at Satyam cineplex...and I would like to point out that both halls were screening the new flick "JO BOLE SO NIHAL", featuring Sunny Deol. The film was in controversy due to some objection raised by SGPC, and was already banned in punjab.....probably (..taking a deep breath...to help him exhale more, as simple as that), there can be some religious fundamentalists behind these blasts."(..what more can you do to act as a responsible journalist..helping to maintain a secular environment in the country...???? May be Anil is thinking "Why can't ppl apply there brain may be i should tell them cause i m smart.")

anyways suddenly mutilated bodies have started coming out of the scene and they are being "rushed" to the nearby Hospital LHMC, not exactly rushed cause there are ppl, taking there skullheads out of there windows to have a look at the site and for that obviously they have to slow off to have a nice look, thus causing traffic snarls and making the ambulance go at 20 km/hr and ofcourse there are future SRKs too, who are using this opportunity to impress Mr. Ghai to take them into his next film. I can see a mother crying for her child..and is not in the focus thuogh , suddenly the cameraman gets it too and here he goes zoooming on her face...suddenly after seeing that the camera on her..number of people helping her increases...then come the ugly faces...laughing in front of the camera, waving to the T.V. audience, making ample use of someone's tragedy.
As if things are not that gauche..comes another reporter...and he's got a cameraman with him...and he's taking us into the wardrooms...yes exclusively...and meets a guy bleeding from head to toe, being taken on stretcher, the reporter decides he won't leave him alone, so what does he do......
"haaan apka naam?" ( moving with the stretcher....)
" (....no answer)"
"kya hua tha wahan?"(...trying to keep pace)
"p..at..,a n..ah.iin
"Aap us waqt kahan thei?"
"mai...nnn to.i.toilet mai..n t..ha"
"Phir kya hua?
"...p..ata na.naa.h.in.."
" Abhi aap ko kahan le ja rahein hain?" (can you believe that?)
"me..mere..re ko fir.st a.id ke li..ye le ja.a ra..he ha..in" (cries out in pain! and is then breezed to the OPD).
that extra effort of the reporter really makes me sick,,, and makes me look down at their feet ....have they really turned their toes...??--------------------------
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Have we really lost our souls..to the clique of murderers now turned politicians...or to the cricketers who do everything other than playing cricket...well i do have interest in both the things...but the way people acted that day really shook me to my senses, and cautioned me so that i don't become the same ugly face of today's "more civilised society" better off me being a gawanr.
But I have realised like most other people I am also a passive mourner, and i know the theater won't allow me a big role, but i'll strive hard and contribute in whichever way possible.
GOD give wisdom to the people of the "sacred land" .