Early morning rush, though not so early at 10:45 a.m I rushed to grab my shoes and simultaneously opened the door and pushed the elevator button. It's hard to imagine how I do all that in a flash of seconds .. but don't they say "practice makes you perfect". Anyways, by the time the lift had come, i had semi-locked the door , worn the socks and pushed my feet into the shoes which had not seen the shoe shiner ever in its poor life. By the time, we(lift and me) reached the ground floor, I was ready in formals , tip to toe.Phew!! why do i always blame myself for bad time management.
Well, pune's awesome climate has mutated into awful one and the acclimatization process has cost me to drive my car instead of bike and the fact is that I hate being alone in the 5 seating capacity, calls to my colleagues also wouldn't help, they were already in the office.While changing gears, i tried in vain to tune my radio to some songs. It was either ads or ghanta singh on air .
Just then I heard Radio Mirchi playing something totally out of the tune " Kasab ka hissab hua, kaisa lajawab hua". I faintly retraced myself to headlines which i had a glimpse .. Ajmal Kasab held guilty and awarded death sentence". Radio Mirchi was talking to people on the street make them dance on their awful chorus.
I switched off the radio....and an anguish rushed chilling down on my spine and my eyes grew numb. No I am not related to Kasab in any way and neither I wish that he be pardoned..my heart is not that big enough.having said that I didn't feel that this is a day we should be very proud of as an Indian or even as a human.
First, who is this guy , Kasab , just another terror agent, who knows to kill, why and how is an unimportant to him as to an engineering guy who wants to pass the semester with last minute rote exercise.Hell does he care, why 'a' is 'a' or why 'b' is 'b'. If the system fails him , we would sure not lose a good engineer.Similarly, you sure kill Kasab, does he care or does anyone in his world of terrorism care about him.His fate was sealed the day he wore the cap of terror.Thus this isn't any good solution.
Today we are happy killing this guy , but is it the best India can do or humanity can do. It's a shame on the humanity that it could not make a man who is as equipped as any nobel laureate to end up as a terrorist to be hanged till death. You can't keep passing the baton from Russia to America to Pakistan to Afganistan saying that its your fault .. no its yours .It is our collective fault.We all are at fault . Whole of the existence of human race is at fault and it's our failure which has marked the advent of hitler,saddam,kasab .... and many more in history. So please stop dancing at your own faults and failures.
Kasab killed people and destroyed the lives of many.I agree completely with the statement.So he deserves to be slaughtered. So please do it ... but with remorse not with pride. Remorse , because you know in the heart somewhere , somehow we all are related in his fault and also because , though people who could have rescued him from becoming a terrorist ... never met him in his life, at least not this one.
And if you are rejuvenating for the judgement such that "after all he couldn't escape the law" ; that's again a shame on you ... your system or law of which you are a part is not capable of delivering such straightforward cases without doubt.... There is no bold judgement here ..everything was crystal clear and judiciary or the political system can't be applauded at least not for this case.You didn't say thanks to your mother for serving you food for 15 years.. did you .. so why just one serving of food from judiciary is making you feel gr8 , even after when u had earned it and deserved it...?
I had reached office ...........safely .. somehow i am good at multitasking :)
