This is a war between people and non-people

Everything is very hazy and emotional in our land at present. We have been through a hell of a time. We can’t even sit and walk around.

We have bullets lodged in our arse. And there are frayed tempers all around. It has affected everybody.

Our own chief minister was incensed today.

“If it was not the house of our Sandeep would even a dog glance that way? “ He was heard asking a TV crew.

Sandeep was in NSG and had died heroically in the Mumbai Skirmish.

Well, the CM had a reason to be unhappy. He was initially barred from entering Sandeep’s house. It was ugly all round. It should not have been so, at least considering the gravity of the situation.

Sandeep’s father Unnikrishnan went berserk when our CM went to offer his condolences to the bereaved family. I agree, it was a belated effort on the part of our government to do so. We did not send anyone before our CM and HM went there. It was a horrible fuck up.

Yet he went personally, recognizing the sad lapse on the part of his administration. He was at Delhi at that time.

If you ask me, he did the decent thing. Mr. Unnikrishnan had no call to make a scene. He even tried to close his gates on our ministers. He shamed his heroic son.
Admitted that he was suffering, angry and perhaps besides himself. Every father will be so in a situation like this. But in his emotion he forgot that he was disgracing the highest elected representatives of a State in India.

They were doing the decent thing. Unnikrishnan and his family is settled in Bangalore, Karnataka, a neighboring state to Kerala. They might be Keralites, but they are not staying at present in our state.

None of our Ministers need go there offering commiserations on an official level, demands of basic decency aside.

This they did and were treated shoddily.

Sandeep is a great hero. We all grieve for him and his family. But his was not the only family which suffered thus. There were other 150 odd Sandeep’s; some of them had never seen a gun before. They did not even know what hit them.
Those innocents are our brethren too.

We grieve for them also. We did not send our Chief Minster to all those homes, but we are not the less sorry for what happened in their families.

These are murky and sad times for our land. Everyone is ridden by passion and we are losing our sense of propriety in it. Iron has entered our souls. We are all agitated and angry.

Anger is only good if it is channelized into resolute efforts to rid us of what troubles us the most.

We have been through a lot. We have been through a bloody partition, we have been through a disgraceful Chinese war, and we have been through a shameful Kargil.
We thought we left behind all our ignominies. We can’t be a nation of sathyagrahi’s any more. Those times are past. We don’t even need heroes now.

What we need are tough men behind the scenes who could act silently and lethally if need be, men of very tough fibre, who can stand up to demonic pressures and come out of it tougher and stronger.

We need people who can take the whole world on, not caring what the world shouts at them. We can’t have some jelly bones handling our destiny. We can’t have careless scatter brains controlling our security.

We just can’t take things lying down anymore. We are not ready to do so.

These are the times when we need to stand together, when we need to make the world aware that we can be terribly exacting where our security is concerned. We can’t be at logger heads at each other at these moments. Forget every sectarian feeling and come together, for our very foundations are getting eroded by passivity.

It is not a question of patriotism even. It is question of pride. We are not even fighting real men here. We are fighting a bunch of programmed Zombies. Their lives have been taken away from them. They don’t mean anything to anybody at all. They are dead to the world. They are expendable to their own creators. Why should they bother us as human beings?

We can’t quiver before such as these. We are sensible people. We are the builders of civilizations. We can’t surrender before human robots without any souls. We can’t be frightened about life less apparitions.

This is not a war between the governments and the terrorists even. This is a war between people and non-people. Let us come together on the part of people and do some thing to save ourselves from these hostile non-entities.

And let us not be emotional about it!