Terror and Thanks

Real life follows reel life, and vice versa, a la Rang De Basanti. You have a group of people protesting non-violently, for a long ignored and just cause. The state machinery, headed by that eunuch Manmohan Singh, has crushed any peaceful means of protest in a manner and setting strikingly similar to what we saw in RDB. Sometimes, you just don't get justice even from the Supreme Court, for a cause that the state simply refuses to look at. The government holds talks with terrorists and yet treats non-violent protests with apathy first and then force, if required. We people, writing blogs from within the confines of our air-conditioned cubicles can debate on how best to curb and squash terrorism. Little do we realize or even acknowledge that there is a great deal of wrong being done against sections of people. Terror feeds and thrives on injustice and apathy.

There is an intriguing scene in Hey Ram where Kamal, Vasundhara Das and Atul Kulkarni engage in a conversation on the moral dilemma about a wolf hunting an infant. The scene concludes with Atul's haunting remark, "adhu oru OnAyA irundhA thAn puriyum". That line rings across luder than ever now.

Here is a surprising take on Islam and Islamists. Pleasantly surprising actually, as the author is a neocon.

And somebody thanks something :)