Life after death begins with a post mortem!

Mumbai has been attacked. It was a war on India. Like it happened during the Bombay bomb blasts, we will discuss this too for some time, exchange ideas and forget about it. Will we forget?

 

Life after death starts with a post mortem. Let’s do that. To my mind, few stray thoughts occur.

 

• The media coverage and the hoopla raised over the attacks clearly expose the divide in Mumbai – South Mumbai versus the rest.
• Why did e very one ignore the attacks on VT (CST) for a very, very long time, until Taj was “liberated”?
• Why weren’t the channels showing live from JJ and other hospitals?
• Why weren’t OB vans parked at VT to gauge the sense of mood of the so-called common man, the commuter?
• Why didn’t Barkha Dutt do a “we the people” programe at CST as she had people shouting at the government at the Gateway?
• Why have all us forgotten the fact that Gateway was built in honour of the British King’s landing in Mumbai, where as CST (then VT) is the commonman’s hub?
• The various news paper pages are also full of stories of the elite and socialites suffering as though Mumbai begins and ends with them. Where are the stories of emotions of the kin of those shot dead at CST?
• Why, and why, there are no candle light processions and meetings at CST?

 

Until, we shake ourselves out of this bias (could be inadvertent!), we will not see and change taking place. And please don’t expect other to change.

 

The change that you want must begin with you! (Yes, that’s was Mahatma Gandhi’s thought)