Scenario 1:
Two-year old Baby Moshe was part of a very happy family . . .His giggles used to fill the air with all the happiness and delight . His smile used to bring bliss to his parents; it used to window.google_render_ad(); window.google_render_ad(); remind them that world is a beautiful place to live in. His father Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and mother Rivka used to run a cultural and outreach centre for the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement. But as bad luck would have it, the most uncanny thing happened in their lives and their happy family met its doomsday. Nothing is left of their family except the cries of baby Moshe, who don’t even know what life has gifted him.
Unholy terrorists stormed into Nariman House in South Mumbai and the baby turned orphan as their killer bullets went passed into his parents’ body. Rabbi and his wife died of the attack. Even before the baby could get the best of his parents, even before they could show him the way to life, he lost their support.
Scenario 2:
Akash, son of Late Hemant Karkare, former ATS chief had to light the funeral pyre for his 54 year old father. As Hemant Karkare’s mortal remains got consigned to flames, Akash’s future dreams with his father also got washed away in the innumerable tear drops that he and his family members must have shed at Hemant’s death. Just like any other death it is very sad, in fact passing away of an extremely competent officer like him is worse than many of other deaths as his death is noble as he laid down his life fighting terror and it was his effort to make all our lives safer.
Now what would Akash look for from us or for that matter what would baby Moshe remember of us in his later life? Should they not look up to us with pride that we not only paid homage to their parents deaths and kept indoors, but have consolidated our efforts to bring in a better future for all of us, specifically when that has been the dream of all our martyrs? It should be our duty to free them from any burden of displeasure on human kind. We should not let all these sacrifices go in vein.
Listen:
This death factor is not only a part and parcel of the lives of some of the unfortunate people but could be true to any of us. The city of Mumbai was rocked by multiple coordinated terrorist attacks that targeted locations popular with foreigners, late on November 26, killing nearly 200 people. But who knows next it can be any other city. In fact in the year 2008 itself Mumbai faced similar terrorist attack twice. Be it bomb blast or firing, what it takes from us is irreversible. The loss is simply too heavy for us to deal with.
It is not only loss of lives, but loss of integrity, loss of hope, and giving in to the most heinous crime in the world and surrendering to the worst cowards of earth.
Lakhs of Mumbaikars stood up on the road to get a last glimpse of the martyrs, when the funeral procession was underway. People shouted slogans against terrorists and Pakistan, while they chanted ’Long Live Hemant Karkare’ and ’Hemant Karkare Amar Rahe’ along with ’Vande Mataram’ and ’Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Lakhs of citizens of Delhi and Mumbai protested in their respective cities against our politicians and against the happening but is that all what we can do. Do you really think that can change India?
Of course it was a great achievement that after all the learned Middle class Indians are out of their dormancy but still we need to look into it with utmost sincerity and bring out the awareness. Please see to it that this revolutionary outburst do not die out with time but we continue to maintain conformity to bring in solace into out motherland.
Jai Hind.
