On Doomsday – Let Us Resolve to be More Courageous!

The wait for Doomsday – 21^st December 2012 is almost over! We are well into the last week of The Maya Calendar. It is learnt that some individuals in foreign countries have made elaborate arrangements for this day – to save themselves and family members from – the sudden end of this lively world. I wish all such individuals- good luck and may they all remain safe and secured with their loved ones, forever!

We Indians need not prepare for such an eventuality, because as a country and as an individual we all are great survivors and this doomsday too shall pass – without making any ripples. The country which has survived the brutal onslaughts of Alexander, the Moghuls, the English in the past – will survive this too. The country and its ordinary people are highly resilient and that’s why we still exist today – as a nation and as an individual - despite looting of its natural resources and laundering of public money worth billions of Rupees – by the external forces as well as by our own people, by our own representatives!

However, the recent incidences like the eve-teasing case of Mumbai which resulted in death of a young man – who had dared to protest the hooligans , no one came forward to put the criminals behind bars – compels me to feel sorry about ourselves. How helpless the family members of the victims – the girl who was teased and the boy who had to lay down his dear life for protesting the action of the eve-teasers – must have been feeling! No voice for them from any corner, it is a pity.

 If we go on behaving like this- fearing the eve-teasers, fearing the law-makers, fearing the law-breakers, fearing the law-keepers – we are certainly doomed! Nothing can save us.

On Doomsday – let us resolve to be courageous – let us speak for the hapless victims and raise our voice against the wrongdoers.

 

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