to say that i am shocked would be an understatement - one of india's finest social activists has been arrested for sedition and sentenced to life imprisonment. the charges against him have not been corroborated by any conclusive evidence.
people callously responsible for the disaster in bhopal get sentenced to three years' imprisonment. and life goes on...
just last week i was watching this programme on safdar hashmi, who was struck down only for voicing what many others felt but were scared to speak up. completely unjust but life goes on...
well.. this time, life should not just go on.... we need to do something.
what are we. as a nation? a mass of useless ineffective adults who take whatever is given to us, or thinking people who will at some time stand up to say - we have an opinion. we want ...
maybe hunger fasts, strikes and bandhs were effective modes of protest once upon a time. now they are just tools in the hands of politicians looking for a way to attract attention.
signing a petition is hopefully an effective way of being heard, and i have done that, but will it be enough? is there something more we can do to register our concern?
what kind of a future are we giving our children if we quietly accept the writ of adults who are given the power to run our lives but have no clue as to what they are doing? do they care? don't we?
Amazing act! :)
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