Friday, October 3, 2008

In response to the article Indians Question Police Response

Dear Sir \ Ma'am,

This article is one of the shallow and the most inconclusive I have ever read. These kind of stories are running amok in India after the entry of poor imitators of the western media in India, that means sensationalizing every event that happens in India. There is a lot of serious flaws in this article.

India is a very big country with a population of more than 1 billion and the police to the population ratio is one of the worst in the world. In spite of this wide gap the police in India is doing a great job in policing, giving assistance during crisis, anti naxal operations, border patrolling, containing the frequent communal clashes and fighting insurgency. The police has done commendable job in identifying the culprits in this dastardly acts of bombing, which is done by cowards who do not have the guts to fight the army or the police in equal terms. Any form of terrorizing the country should not be accepted and try to discredit the police for their sincere efforts is not the solution or answer for these activities.

These writers are concerned about the so called perpetrators of these cowardly act, but I don't even see one article about the state of the victims, the injured, the families of the killed or any rehabilitation work. Even they do not mention this in passing breath. This misguided sense of sympathy or coming to conclusions about the police excesses are on the raise in India does not augur well for the over worked police force in India.

It is better not to mention about the Muslim community in India. They are given more than equal chance in every field of Indian society, they have a very strong lobby in the centre for their well being, their welfare, and the get enough and more reservations in higher education, free Haj travel and government jobs. But this community wants to have a different identity and do not consider themselves as Indian as a collective word. There is a department in India called the Minorities affairs, they provide all types of assistance to these so called minorities, like scholarships, job reservations, take up exploitation issues, abuses and racial belittling cases seriously and give them enough protection in form of taking up criminal cases against the abusers or exploiters of these communities.

The government and its machinery is taking every effort to provide parity with the majority community and the political parties have exploited enough in the name of secularism and so called exploitation of the minorities. The Muslim dominated area of Kashmir is given enough exemptions and provisions, but have they come with a good solution to this simmering problem for more than 60 years? This dilly dallying by successive governments have complicated this issue to a point of no return. The majority is in the feeling that enough money, lives and time has being spend and there is no going back. The social activists and the media are in the favour of giving full Independence to Kashmir. This is a vicious circle and there is no end to this.

I would conclude by saying the Muslims should be more Indians than be Muslims and this mistrust by the majority and the suspicion of them being abettors of terrorism will stop. Or they can continue being salesmen of fake foreign goods and selling footwear for more than 300% margin. They should come to the forefront of Indian politics, have more representations in the armed forces and get themselves to serve the nation. I am not saying this as a concerned Indian but as a fellow lover of human kind and do ask that writer to come up with something more substantial and conclusive.

Thank you,

Best regards,
Sastha Prakash.

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