Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yet again another disaster strikes

Yet again another disaster strikes, yet again the media goes into a frenzy and yet again the citizens of this country feel helpless and angry. The same rhetoric continues by everyone as usual and nothing comes out of it. I wonder why we, as a nation never get tired of replaying and over dramatising the whole situation by concentrating on nonsensical nuances which have no bearing at all on the larger issue. But I think we all revel in this and try and seek some kind of a temporary solace from ridiculing each other or bickering about issues that don't matter. Or maybe we are so incompetent and coward to take decisions and stringent steps that we hide behind the facade of irrelevant and utterly useless squabbles. 

Mumbai, the financial hub of the country is literally bleeding to death and there is not even a single person who is willing to do anything about it. We truly need a leader who would take some drastic and need be shocking steps, but as irony has it in this highly populated country, there doesn't seem to be even one specimen of this kind. Sad, a country with a population of over a billion and no one has the spirit to dare...

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