Cry My Motherland

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.