Saturday, November 29, 2008

sainika

The world today is reeling because of the terrorist menace, and India which needs no introduction to this word or their methods was given a new gruesome lesson these past couple of days.

Why do they do such gruesome things? What induces them to kill other people with impunity?
Why attack innocents when the anger is on the posturing apes who call themselves world leaders? And why do it in the name of religion?

No body can form a proper answer and neither am I going to delve into that too much.

I would want to talk about this particular attack on Mumbai.. and its heroes

The impunity with which they descended on the targets, the efficient take over of the Taj Hotel, The Trident Oberoi & The Nariman House and most of all the efficient holding of the positions till late yesterday point at a long planned, well thought out and supremely organized group.I refuse to believe for one instance, in-fact I feel like bursting out laughing every time this Deccan Mujaheddin name is touted. The New York Times has stated that international security experts "drew a blank on" the Deccan Mujahideen group, with one analyst labeling it a "front name".

The crisis has come to an end but what about those 160+ people whose lives have been taken so cruelly.

What about their families and their dreams?
What about their friends and relations who thought the world of them?
Is this lunacy ever going to end?
Who is going to put an end to this lunacy and when?

The chronology and the events that happened have been reported, re-reported ad-nauseaum. I would not want to recount them here, but what I would like to do is dedicate my heartfelt condolences and thanks to the families of those brave warriors who laid down their lives trying to save strangers who would not even care to give them time of the day otherwise. 14 policemen and 3 NSG commandos have been killed in this mess.

Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The faithful witness,
Till we are help ed,
As if a kingdom cared!

Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
Passed out of record
Into renown!

Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare,Thank you.
Additional Commissioner of Police: Ashok Kamte, Thank you.
Encounter specialist: Vijay Salaskar, Thank you.
Senior inspector Shashank Shinde, Thank you.
NSG Commando, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Thank you.
NSG Hawaldar Chandar, Thank you.


There was discipline in you,
There was an honor in you,
There was courage in you,
There was a loyalty in you that you never compromised.
Yours wasn't a title that could be given for hire.
It was a soldier's soul buried deep inside you.
A Soldier's job isn't finished after an 8 hour day or a 40 hour week,
A Soldier is always A Soldier even while he sleeps.
A Soldier serves his country first and his life is left behind,
You sacrificed what comes first in our mind.

To all civilians - I am saying this to you.....
next time you see A Soldier remember what they do.
A Soldier is the reason our land is the new land of progress
A Soldier is the one that is brave protecting you and me.

If you are A Soldier - I am saying this to you.....
Thank God for EVERY SOLDIER
Thank God for what YOU do!