Friday, December 5, 2008

Gloom and sadness everywhere apart from the petrol price

More and more evidence is pointing to security lapses and intelligence failure that led to Mumbai terror attack. Now you get one more channel to vent out your anger, not only our politicians, but security forces are also inefficient in planning and looking into the future.

The drama called 'maharastra CM selection'... need I tell you more?

Look at this list of thoughts in an indian's mind:

  • Our intelligence agency RAW is going through a lot of internal problems and is not able to focus on national security.
  • Our intenal intelligence agency IB has not been able to provide actionable and specific information about domestic security.
  • Our police force is ill-equipped.
  • Our politicians (and you know what and how the most of them are) control how the security resources are deployed inside the country - using their own IQ level.
  • The only visible thing so far has been done by the government after terror attacks is to change the political kursi-holders, like musical chairs, just rotate your guys and call them 'able leaders' so that public is happy for the time being in anticipation of some responsible action.
  • USA does not want India to take any military action that might hamper their cause at this time.
  • Pakistan goverment as usual makes vague and non-actionable statements which means 'we won't do anything', 'this too, shall pass'.

    Sad and gloomy I would say, I don't feel any better after knowing about all measures taken by the government. May god save the people of this country!

    I am confused with all the different haphazard reports by different media groups.
    I don't know still how the investigation is going on and what exactly that captured terrorist has been saying about the source of the terror elements from where he came.

    This is what is called a democratic country and free media - keep people confused and distracted so that, the show goes on, no matter how badly and how slowly.

    The only thing I feel good at this point is the reduction in petrol price.

  • 3 comments:

    The Seeker said...

    Root Cause Analysis: The political system and the mass media have made themselves undoubtedly unworthy of our trust. Can you just imagine its dire consequences? It's quite overwhelming! Loss of trust just destroys the very basis of the relationship. The government is run by the politicians, and the government has an almost absolute power over its citizens. Just imagine the fate of the citizens who have lost trust in their own government. It's like waking up to find yourself in a coffin that's buried deep under the ground. The media which was supposed to be giving us uncorrupted information seems to have become a puppet in the hands of the political system, and its own single objective - ratings! Forget about terrorism and such issues. What do we do about this much graver problem of the loss of trust in our own system?!

    Bijayalaxmi Nanda said...

    It all comes down to honesty.

    Sometimes I really wonder why the value called 'honesty' does not play an important role in our lives any more! If you read Ramayan and Mahabharat and all, people could die for honesty and so called 'maryada', but not any more.

    The media is not honest.
    The police is not honest.

    Don't know what to say about politicians and so called leaders, they are disgusting.

    How can you trust a system which is run by only dishonest people?

    The Seeker said...

    Why will I be honest? Maybe because I feel that my dishonesty may hurt someone; I'll feel ashamed to look at myself in the mirror; I may not be able to sleep at night. So, being dishonest means that I've no compassion, zero self-respect and an abysmal conscience. There you go! We've arrived at a good characterization of most of the people in media and politics. What do you think can be done with such people? Any hopes of bringing about any positive transformation in them? I see no light at the end of this tunnel for sure. We've to move such elements out of the system? So, what do we do? Every problem must have a solution; a simple one too. Are we thinking ahead of time and time is not ripe? I'm not willing to buy that. Maybe, it'll take more time and effort. But how much? At least a rough estimate please! Is it so difficult to evaluate? Aren't there any tools in social sciences to deal with this? I have a feeling that Cybernetics could be used; whatever I've read about it sounded promising. But mind it, there are many entities involved and many factors and interrelationships to consider. We need to be very systematic. Let us leverage science for moving the intolerable out of our system.