Disgusted...

... is what I am after the Mumbai attacks. Ruthless killing of people for a reason as something called religion. As far as my knowledge goes about this word RELIGION which is prevalent in many forms, none of the forms teaches you to kill people come what may. I heard that Religion is a good thing and tells you to help people and save people. But here are the self-proclaimed-messengers-of-God doing exactly the opposite. What an irony!!

I am in Germany right now working at the client side and returning to India this coming weekend. A couple of days back, my client counterpart asked me - "Are you not afraid?" and I was like - "What?? What should I be afraid of". And he goes - "Afraid of going to India". I just didnt know the answer.

I am going back home after quite sometime and I dont know whether to be happy about it and whether to be afraid. Crazy aint it? I feel happy that I will be with my family and friends again but I feel scared that the guy walking on the street next to me might just be a terrorist and might just shoot me point blank. Or I might be enjoying a movie in a cinema hall and suddenly there's a blast! So all-in-all, I really do not know whether I am more happy or more scared of going back to India.

I dont know what these people are fighting for and why are they killing people. But I sure know that it cant be religion. Some democrats give it the name of religion and hide their intentions behing this holy word. And the ones to execute such events of massacre are people whose brains have just been washed out somehow and taught a wrong definition of religion and jehad and stuff like that. Please please please understand that this aint taking no one no where. Spread love and not hatred. No man ever achieved anything with hatred. Stop this non-sense!

And whose fault is it anyway that such things happen? And they do not happen once in a while but they keep happening every now n then. It is very easy to blame the politians, the forces, the intelligence and who not. I am not saying that it not their fault. It indeed is. They are to be blamed for sure. But as much as they are to be blamed, so are we. So is every Indian.

The main reason that I see for such things happening is Corruption. For without officials at every level aiding these terrorists, it simply is impossible how they can get in so much of ammunition without getting noticed and things like that. So the fight against terrorism should start with the fight against corruption. And this fight is not of the armed forces only. It is our fight. We need to do our duty towards the nation. I am not hinting at something of the likes of Rang De Basanti. Not at all. That will be foolishness as such heroics happen only in Bollywood and nowhere else. What I am talking about is doing our small bit everywhere in the daily life.

Fight against corruption also means not aiding corruption. Our small bit in that could be being honest in our daily affairs ourselves and also not bribing someone of doing favors for someone just to get our own job done. This could be the smallest bit we can do. There would surely be the urge to pay money for getting the job done since it just makes it so easier and hasslefree. But resist that urge for sometime and it will stop completely itself.

Another bit could be to raise your voice if anyone around you is not doing his/her job properly. You see a security guard doing checkings just as a formality process, you remind him of his duty. You see a night watchman sleeping, you remind him of his duty. You see a traffic policeman taking money money in his pocket instead of issuing a challan, you remind him. Wherever whenever whatever... lets take part in the Jago-India-Jago kinda movement.

I pledge myself, not as a hindu or a muslim or a christian or whatever, but as an Indian, to do my bit towards my country... do you?