On 13th Februrary 2010, on the eve of Valentines day, one of the most beautiful and peaceful city in the world was attacked. Pune, cultural capital of Maharashtra, IT hub, oxford of the east witnessed its first ever cowardly terrorist attack.Many innocent and young people were killed on the spot, brother and sister in their 20's lost their lives.
How many times we are going to be attacked by our neighbors without declaring an official war against us? how many times we are just going to sit and talk with them? How many more times we are going to insult all those innocent souls who have lost lives in these terrorist attacks? Does our country have any self respect left? the answer is NO. We have become so thick skinned and dead that we just do not care for any life.
Times of India, one of the most reputed media group in the world comes up with full page adverts, star studded tv commercials and lots of cultural events to tell our neighbors that we want Aman and Shanti with you. Just next to these Aman Ki Asha colorful adverts, there are photographs of dead bodies which have only one color that of blood. In the commercial break on news channels we see Aman ki asha advertisement with big B making an appeal and after less that 2 minutes we see our same neighbors killing so many innocent people.
This is so absurd. It is an absolute insult to those who died in these attacks. What sort of Aman and Shanti we are expecting from Pakistan? and why? after so many years, are we still in some kind of a denial that Pakistan is our enemy number one? Why are we still expecting any mature action from them? Look at how their foreign minster talks? Terrorists hold open public rallies in Pakistan and we are extending our hand for Aman and Shanti with them? Our self proclaimed badshah khan says, they are good neighbors and he feels embarrassed when no one (including him) buys Pakistani cricketers in IPL.
Its been more than 48 hrs since Pune bomb blast. Not a single person from bollywood has come forward and condemned these attacks. Our government deploys entire state police force to secure a release of Mr. Khan's film just because he is a close buddy of Rahul Gandhi and can;t even provide normal regular secured life to its citizens. Now, where is Shah Rukh? where is Rahul Gandhi? where is Mahesh Bhatt? where is big B? where is Ms. Teesta Setalvad? It's so sad to see such a pathetic behavior from these superstars, film directors and so called human right activists? Now, why King Khan, Mahesh Bhatt should not be blamed for supporting Pakistan?
What kind of Aman ki asha do we have from our terrorist neighbor?I think we have to respect the sentiments of people at large who are killed in these attacks and stop these surrogate marketing campaigns like Aman Ki Asha. Let's be more sensitive and respectful to those innocent people who have died in these terrorist attacks by Pakistan!
