Does anyone remember that a few weeks ago we celebrated first anniversary of Mumbai carnage. Yes I said celebrated not commemorated because that is what we did. What would you call a lazy evening spent on the Lawns of India Gate with Bollywood stars ?
We heard the great SRK mouth patriotic dialogues straight out of his movies and teach us "Indianness". We learnt the difference between " Allah's Islam" and "Mullah's Islam". We sang a few patriotic songs and then heard our great leaders shed their crocodile tears for the dead and reassure us that "india will not tolerate " the terrorists any more. We then proceeded to light candles as the dusk fell and that was it. Some songs, some nice sounding talk and some fun with candles .
In an earlier post I argued that we can not fight back with Candles and SRK is no match for AK 47. ( http://byteandbark.blogspot.com/2009/11/fighting-with-candles.html )I argued that unless we hit back hard; very very hard we must be prepared for another bloody nose. I would have given a lot to be proven wrong. Sadly I was proven right and so soon!. We have received a valentine gift in Pune. What's our answer going to be ?? Going by the past record this time round we will likely give Pakistan two dozen prints of MNIK free as a gesture of Goodwill !! Of course SRK can be asked to go on a road show chanting "my name is khan and I am not a terrorist". That should make people safe!! Candle brigade can bring them out again and media can broadcast pictures of bollywood stars with lit candles. Ministers can announce payment to the families of dead again ; declare 'India will not tolerate...... etc. and we can finally resume our valentine day's festivities - sorry for the interruption!!!
Also as a Confidence Building Measure ( confidence of terrorists , not the public) we must hasten to bring back all the Kashmiri's who crossed over to train with ISI in Pakistan and resettle them .Home minister is already in agreement with this proposal . Poor people are all trained and no where to use that excellent terrorist training! That will gladden ISI's heart towards India !! Although in the last 20 odd years nobody has thought it expedient to bring back and resettle Indians who were the victims of these terrorists and were hounded out of Kashmir.
Be certain that there will be another blast so till the next one we can continue to rely on candles and SRK's dialogues . Just do not mention it to the mother of the 19-year-old Anindyee Dhar and her 23-year-old brother Ankik Dhar - both dead. Poor lady will not understand what makes a nation of a billion people so impotent , so weak kneed and so bereft of ideas.
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