Monday, August 4, 2008

The Pied Piper and the Rats

The moment I got into my hotel room at Bhuvaneshwar I wanted to check out the latest on the Trust Vote.I switched on the Television.Omar Abdullah,one of the young voices of Kashmir,began his speech.On most occassions I have liked what he writes or speaks even if I disagree with his views.To be honest he has been a pleasant departure from his grandfather as well as his father who have known to be masters of rhetoric and two-facedness.
He began and as usual I expected him to speak like the way he would.But Alas ,it was run of the mill stuff,the stuff that intelligent,sorry cunning politicians would generally sayFor sometime I thought it was his father speaking.
I am a Muslim and an Indian and I dont see how the two are different.I was stumped.Is he the same man who only a week before was parroting Kashmiri Nationalism.Was he not the same guy who called the Muslim protestors upsurge against the land transfer to Amarnath Shrine as the national sentiment of Kashmir.So please let us know whether you are an Indian or a Kashmiri because you seem to contradict yourself.
Well there was more to come.We haven't destroyed temples and mosques.Well wasn't it his father's constituency and later his where many temples were destroyed and desecrated.Isn't it also true that he remained a mute spectator when all this was happening.Hasn't Kashmir seen more than 600 desecrated and broken temples,some razed to ground and the land occupied by local Muslims.Well Omar,you cannot fool all the people all the time.Look around your backyard and you will see temples in shambles.So please dont bullshit.Wandhama falls in Ganderbal ,Omar.It is right under your nose that 23 Pandits were masscared and the only temple in that area burnt.Now the case too stands closed and you have the cheek to say that ,We did not destroy temples.Dont you feel ashamed of yourself for lying so balatantly?
What irked me the most was that his conscience pricks him because he was a part of the NDA government and continued to do so even after Gujarat riots.Why is it that his conscience pricked him only when he finished his tenure with that government where he was a Minister of State for External Affairs,if my memory serves me right.Why did he not resign there and then or was the lure of the chair compensating for the cost of his conscience?Crocodile tears is what the Abdullahs are known for and Omar proved that he is the illustrous scion of the same family.He can but only lie.
Yet as he played his flute, the Editor in Chief of a newspaper was all praise for him,almost fell head in heels over Omar.The next day the Newspaper sang paeans to Omar,yes,on the front page.Another editor in chief wanted to give an Oscar to him,if there would have been an Oscar for the Speeches.Thankfully there isnt one yet.
The rat race did not stop here.Many other smaller rats too wrote and spoke highly of his speech.As always the Indian "Mainstream" Media fell for words as rats would for bread crumbs.......

10 comments:

Anil said...

Kuch sheher madeeneh seh lagteh hai unko.Kuch log haaji bhi lagteh hai unko.

Jinhoonah kabhi wazooh na kiyah ,
unhe duniyah ka har jukne wala nimaazee lagtah hai !!!

Anonymous said...

rightly so...khaqsar...

वैभव Vaibhav said...

Hi.
I have been trying to follow your blog -- mostly to enhance my understanding on Kashmir different from the mainstream media (and also the stereotypes in the so called alternative media).

It would be nice to read your views on the Amarnath controversy, or suggest a good reading.

Anonymous said...

Hi Vaiby,

I shall soon be writing on the same.Please bear with me for a day or two more.

Regards

Rashneek

Anonymous said...

Expecting a politician to speak the truth is like expecting a middle aged woman to tell you her true age! I'm sorry to sound too harsh but you can never expect a politician to speak the truth, even if they do make sense once in a while or appear young, decent, suave or whatever...

Anonymous said...

Nerd,

some politicians do carry their masks well but then a mask is a mask is what I forgot

Anonymous said...

Well, to an extent we are all wearing masks, its just that their masks are more dangerous than ours

वैभव Vaibhav said...

Hi,
Do I take home that Amarnath issue is too thorny to write on?

PS: Hope you are doing well!

Anonymous said...

Vaiby,

It is thorny and complex and there is so much happening on the issue that I cannot peg in to begin with.
Then reason has become such a casuality that it is hard to put a perspective.
Nonetheless I will write...

Thanks for asking...I am well by God's grace

kusumakar kaushik said...

Dear Rashneek,

Like Vaiby I have been waiting for your analysis of Amarnath issue. But pray tell me, why are you silent?

Thorny, it may be, but you should be willing to share your thoughts with those who follow your blog. You have been very vocal about the lost kashmir to us ( i am a kashmiri too). Your silence over the subject gives impressions of myriad shades, many of which are unfavourable and undesirable.

I have been patiently waiting for your views. But now that the land row is temporarily over ( as I expect the difficulty to continue ), when will I get to see your ponderings.

Dead End

Dead End
The road to what was once my home in Kashmir....zuv chum bramaan ghare gachehae..