Happy New Year everyone!! (yeah, i know itz a touch too late, but what the heck!!) Sadly, the old year didn't end on a good note, nor did the new one begin very well...and no, i am not referring to the "brilliant" performance of Team India!!
First we had the shocking discovery of remains of about 30 odd kids in Noida...cannibalism in India! what was shocking was the apathy displayed by the cops and the CM who reacted as if it was a daily affair! Just because they were the kids of the aam junta, the authorities have shown their typical don't care attitude. as someone mentioned, if it was a vip kid who had gone missing, the entire police force would have been swooning over Noida and random people would have been arrested and harassed on the basis of slightest of doubts.
Then we had an equally shocking incidence (and again the helplessness of the authorities) at the Gateway of India on new year's eve in the financial capital and my beloved city - Mumbai. Yes, it was shocking and shameful that a lady was molested by so many people in the heart of the city and the million cops standing guard did not even notice!! Stating that the revellers were drunk and that the girl invited trouble by wearing short clothes and being present at the Gateway is just not acceptable!! India is a free country and you can do as you please, but that does not mean you go and molest/eve tease women! and the excuse that they invite it just does not cut ice with me! oh and yeah, this is the same place where a girl was murdered in broad daylight and no one had tried to save her! (guess hardly any one remembers that incidence...even i had forgotten it until i read about it in the paper yest :-(
on similar lines, we had another incident a few days back, this time in the IT capital - begalooru (when will our politicans do some real work and not rename cities??). a bouncer in a pub in the heart of the city (brigade road for those who know) throws a few drunkards out who were - you guessed it - eve teasin a girl in the bar... the next thing the poor guy knows, those same drunkards are waiting for him with knives and the kill him on brigade road!!! what is this world coming to! first, there is hardly anything to do in this crappy city. you have malls, multiplexes and overcrowded bowling alleys/coffee shops/pubs for leisure/entertainment! on top of that the stupid cops go and close all hotels/cafes/pubs by 1130. and then you have such incidences where you are no longer sure if you are going to return home alive!!
(you may think i am over reacting, but i dont think so considerin the rate at which techies are being targetted and the dislike the locals have for techies!)
and the last piece of bad news - 2 rounds of inhuman killing of 60 odd people in Assam. the second one being carried out after assurances from some minister that the ULFA is a dying movement in Assam! I know now that our government has been largely neglecting this part of the country (North East) and that the army has been time and again indulging in behaviour that goes against human rights (most of this does not get reported!), but there was a peace dialogue going on and as usual our govt seems to have screwed up! And if it cannot protect it's own citizens, then what is the use? Similar things are happening in the valley as well and we are alienating all these people...
well, i know i have, as has been my attitude of late, very pessimistic about the future of India, but i dont see any signs yet of things improving any time soon! Anyways, herez still hoping that I am wrong and the country and it's people have a gr8 year ahead!
-uv.
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