My motherland, that is India or Bharat or Hindustan, is in
pain, anguish and is crying but most of our politicians and other VVIP persons
either cannot hear it or take it as normal as they have lost their humanity. It
is because of the statements and the acts of the persons who are duty bound to
nurture it and see that it is at peace.
Attempt to commit suicide is a crime under section 309 of
the IPC but fortunately or unfortunately the person who commits suicide goes
scot free as he is no more. It is a cowardly act and more so if committed by a
soldier or ex soldier as he is trained to fight against all odds. Each death
for whatever reason is a sad affair and shatters the family and all efforts are
to be made to remove the causes which force a person to commit suicide but the
act still remains a cowardly act and cannot in any way be justified and the person
called a shaheed. It is an insult to the armed and Para military forces and the
Indian citizens who are dying on the border villages. It will be an insult to
the 14 month old Pari fighting for her life in the hospital after being injured
by Pakistani bullets and mortar fire. Any attempt to glorify such an act has to
be condemned by the society and condemned those who try to glorify it.
The recent announcement by the CM of giving one crore rupees
to the family of the person who committed suicide by calling him a shaheed will
lead to a catalytic reaction of persons committing suicide and give various
reasons for their act just to claim this money. People will cite it
as a precedent. What an irony that for committing suicide one gets one crore
and for dying for the country a person just gets a measly two to five lacs only
and the villagers on the border areas do not even get a word of sympathy? Big
politicians attend the funeral of this person but do not even go to the family
of persons who die fighting for their country or go to the border villages
where thousands had to leave their home
due to Pakistani fire and schools shut and crops cannot be planted or
harvested. They do not go to the villages where the schools are being burnt to
deny the basic right of education to those children. Probably in Delhi they
will get more TV coverage than when they visit the forward area villages. It is
all a matter of votes and dirty politics. How low the politics of India has
gone and how much more it will go? How much more
pain these politicians will give to our motherland and force her to suffer? The
only advice one can give to the motherland is to cry and cry as it can do
nothing else and either waits for a Vishnu to take avatar to remove the sins
committed by its sons or for Shiva to do its Tandav nritya and the civilization
to start all over again in a new form.
