Sometimes I wish my life had a erase/rewind button

Friday, May 16, 2008

Maybe this time they will investigate

Jaipur was hit by serial blasts. An event that would have shook the nation wildly but for the fact that its become a regular occurring event. All politicians are playing the blame game. States blame center, center blames states, BJP blames Congress, Congress blames BJP and people will die on.
Meanwhile our VIPs will continue playing the give me more security game. The status of a VIP is rated by how many security personnel they have. A lowly one gets like 18! policemen, higher ones may get more than 100! How does sheer number helps doesn't make itself clear to me but apparently the Kings know it so they keep increasing their security detail numbers while blaming lack of policemen for crime investigation and prevention.
After all the government will get time to pay attention to citizen deaths once the ministers get time from writing letters to other ministries to corner government largess for the family, or after settling the burning issues of cricket. It seems every state's cricket body is headed by a minister or erstwhile minister. J&K has Farrukh Abdullah, Bihar has Laloo, Sharad Pawar is the head of BCCI.
But there may be a silver lining here. Today's TOI mentioned that many Australian cricketers were planning to return back post the blasts. That'll deal a blow to T20 which is cricket's latest money spinner. We know that politicos in India care only for money and cricket. So it might be a double whammy for them. This might just about make them try and work on prevention of such activities, at least in places important to cricket.
We can dream.

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