Twitter, facebook and pretty much every news site today is flooded with news about the Mumbai blasts that killed 21 people so far and injured over 140. People and politicians alike are repeatedly using words “resilience” and “the spirit of Mumbai”. One tends to wonder how many times is a city going to be able to get up, brush off the dust and get back on its way again!
Politicians are flocking to Mumbai now after the blasts. I agree with Rajdeep Sardesai when he tweeted “17 people die in mumbai, every neta descends on city. when many more died in gauhati serial blasts, didnt see them?”. Why did Mukul Roy not visit the site of the train accident when it happened a few weeks ago. Seriously, whats wrong with these politicians? It seems (and has for a while now) that people are taking up politics more as a career option rather than means to serve the people. The first thing on the agenda for such people is to rake up as much as possible during their tenure so that the next 10 generations in their families needn’t worry about things like jobs and retirement planning.
Then there are people like Rahul Gandhi in the ministerial ranks. One would think that descending from a family with a long history in politics would have taught him to make politically correct statements even if he cant muster enough sympathy for the affected people in reality. But the gentleman goes on to say that “We will stop 99% of attacks, but 1% of attacks might get through”. After hearing this, I must say I have to give him the status of “intellectually impaired” (which according to bored.com is the politically correct word for stupid!). Well, not to worry I suppose. Any stutter by the ruling party is a boon for the opposition. It didnt take very long for BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy to “slam” Rahul Gandhi for making such statements. Cant help but wonder how many such blasphemous statements have been made by him and his party in the past.
I agree, cribbing about such issues isn’t going to fix anything and also, its my fault that in the last 28 years of my existence, I haven’t voted once. Every time that I think I should change that, I end up thinking, whats the point? Why is it that instead of choosing a representative of the people are parliament, we just have to go and choose who we think is the lesser of the evils?
Go figure!
