I have never been fond of war, I know you will ask 'so? who has been or is?' But I know people who enjoy war movies, chivalry and the love for the mother land that one gets to display at times like this. I abhor even these. I just plain simple do not understand who invented it and why though I totally understand that it is one of the most basic plain and simple things to invent.
The biggest divorce in the history of humankind, the India Pakistan partition thankfully had no connection to my life. But still I got cramps every time someone spoke of it. I would try running away from similar discussions good or bad. It was only after years of conditioning that I grew up to appreciate the loss, sorrows and the many tales of grit and endurance the partition brought into with it.
Why I am bothering to speak about all this is because in years together this is the first time I have felt scared because of the prospect of war. I have grown up in times that have been relatively peaceful, yes that is if you call Babri Masjid demolition, Godhra riots, spats between people of different religions, states, ideologies and an uncountable number of chain bomb blasts along the length and breadth of the county peaceful.
Reason being Taliban is just a heartbeat away from the seat of power in Pakistan and the most alarming thing is that there is no force strong enough to stop this surge leave alone even question it. Taliban is a package deal that comes with innumerable if's and but's. At the most basic level all men will necessarily have to sport a beard and women will lose the right to education and along with it all rights to freedom. We have seen what Taliban has been up to in the places that it has plagued and it will be foolish to think that in Pakistan things are going to be different. Staunch regressive rules, a complete defiance of the universal rule that man is born free that is how he ought to be (and she), women considered just as objects that provide pleasure and a whole lot of kids to man while themselves being devoid of any feeling, wants or desires all the while. Volumes can be written on how simply mindless and crass their ideologies are in the current times but that's not what I want to delve into.
India and Pakistan after few wars and years of strained friendship are still existing next to each other. We blame them solely for our terror attacks and they rebuke our security forces and the possibility of Indian involvement in each of the wrong doings. Even aftre countless number of trips made by heads of State of either country and peace talks keeping the Taj Mahal in the background things are not really in the best shape possible. At another moment one could have cribbed endlessly as to how this India Pakistan issue just doesn't seen to end but today when I try to ask myself what is the worst that could shape up in the near future because of the Talibani involvement I shudder and think that the current sate-of-affairs is any day much better than what could happen in the near future.
India has this typical 'wait-and-watch' attitude that I think is exclusively ours. I know we can't just go and bomb down what we think could pose a threat but it is not right to sit and wait to be hit hard, really hard to finally know this is the apt time to react. Having seen my government act and react over the past so many years I am sure nothing is really gonna happen from our side at least not actionary. Even as far reactionary goes I am not sure what we are capable of. Here capability is not the capability to act but to decide that this is the time to act and this the action that we are going to take.
While I feel scared and vent out my feeling I am sure the Talibani's are strategising how to take over. Whom to plant where, how many bomb blasts to execute, how many more men to train, how to flog women, which nation to destroy.
I am fed up with the innumerable bomb blasts and I know so is everyone but before anything else crops up I want to make my displeasure, fear and plain simple disgust for the events that are shaping up our modern history very very clear. I hope the Gods in the skies wake up to it, stop it cause I know man has lost the sanity to even comprehend things leave alone decide where to head and how exactly.
Psst: Yes I am in despair and am already looking up for help.
