Since the bomb blasts, I have been reading lot of posts on news sites and blogs about mumbai and mumbaikar spirit. What strikes me most is the way things are being portrayed. Most of the media and blogs are lauding the city and its people for coming back to normalcy in a day. Its the 'never-say-die' attitude of mumbaikar!!!Helloo..Arent we forgetting something here? Shouldn't the city stop to mourn the dead? Shouldn't there be some action about such a horrible thing?
I know, there have been lot of incidences of people helping total strangers in whatever way they can . Slum dwellers, bystanders, taxiwallahas, people in cars and just about everybody has rose to the occasion. There are soo many incidences that make me feel proud, happy, sad, helpless, revengeful, all at the same time. No words of appreciation can do justice to such selfless acts.
But is that all? It was an emergency and the situation called for such acts. Once the hour of emergency is over, people are back to their routine. There are 'specials' in rediff, ibnlive and ndtv about mumbai 'moving on'. Only, ndtv has reported things in a 'matter-of-fact' tone. Others are bragging about this and labeling this as the 'spirit of mumbai'...come on..this is not something to be proud of..instead, you must feel bad and ashamed that people are soooo forgetful(forgiving??) and may be even meek in accepting things so easily and 'moving on'.
I may sound harsh. May be my anger is directed in the wrong direction. I dont know. I am just feeling bad at the way things are turning out. In a day, mumbai is back to normal. Soon, everyone will forget the horrible tuesday. Soon it will no longer be a news. Media will find some other sensational news(may be a celeb pair splitting up? or some not-so-celeb-as-yet smooching some other not-so-celeb-as-yet to celebhood? whatever). And soon this will be a news from someother age, archivied. At this rate of 'moving on', no measure can/will be taken to ensure that such things dont repeat, and ofcourse they repeat. I am sorry.
I know, there have been lot of incidences of people helping total strangers in whatever way they can . Slum dwellers, bystanders, taxiwallahas, people in cars and just about everybody has rose to the occasion. There are soo many incidences that make me feel proud, happy, sad, helpless, revengeful, all at the same time. No words of appreciation can do justice to such selfless acts.
But is that all? It was an emergency and the situation called for such acts. Once the hour of emergency is over, people are back to their routine. There are 'specials' in rediff, ibnlive and ndtv about mumbai 'moving on'. Only, ndtv has reported things in a 'matter-of-fact' tone. Others are bragging about this and labeling this as the 'spirit of mumbai'...come on..this is not something to be proud of..instead, you must feel bad and ashamed that people are soooo forgetful(forgiving??) and may be even meek in accepting things so easily and 'moving on'.
I may sound harsh. May be my anger is directed in the wrong direction. I dont know. I am just feeling bad at the way things are turning out. In a day, mumbai is back to normal. Soon, everyone will forget the horrible tuesday. Soon it will no longer be a news. Media will find some other sensational news(may be a celeb pair splitting up? or some not-so-celeb-as-yet smooching some other not-so-celeb-as-yet to celebhood? whatever). And soon this will be a news from someother age, archivied. At this rate of 'moving on', no measure can/will be taken to ensure that such things dont repeat, and ofcourse they repeat. I am sorry.
posted by sarvagnaani at 11:16 AM
1 Comments:
Ouch kummi....you hit the nail on the head....Thats really true man...But the point is, if you start mourning the dead for a long time, the terrorists may get a reason to feel happy...So everyone wants to start talking abt resilence and getting back to business....enanthiya ?
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