WHO OWNS KASHMIR?

An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly that made the world community smile. 

A representative from India began: 'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. 

When Rishi Kashyap struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath.' 
He took off his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. 

When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them. 

The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and in support of Pakistan, he shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren't there then.' 

The Indian representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.'

Saviours... really?

1130 Hrs, received a call from HDFC bank on Sep 17, 2008. Receiving such calls is not a welcoming experience, thinking of it as just another random credit card call I was about to hang up when I heard the girl on other side talking about transaction on my debit card amused, I continued. She told me of some jewelry transaction the last day on my debit card worth Rs. 9000 to which I refused. She humbly requested me to check my Debit card which I did and to my surprise I found it was missing.

 

CRISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY DEBIT CARD IS MISSING AND SOMEBODY IS SHOPPING!!

 

I requested her to immediately hotlist my card to stop further transactions and rushed to lodge a FIR. Unknown to, the police functionality in India, I reached Lajpat Nagar police station, which was nearest to me. Upon reaching there I was told to go to the Police station where I stay. Finding it ok, I chose to go to my bank first to get my statement of losses.

 

In an ordeal of finding the correct police station I had to go through 3 police stations and 2 chowkis before reaching Sector 39 PS in Noida.

 

HERE BEGINS THE STORY…

 

As opposite to the perception carried by me and a majority of people, Police officials were sweet to talk to, gave respect and treated me with hounour. I cant comment if that is the same with everyone as there wasn’t anyone around to compare with. I was asked to write a letter to local SHO detailing the event. I had a loss statement ready with the names of transactions made and for police to catch the culprit would have been really easy, only if they want.

 

While I was writing the letter, a police official asked me as to how to use a debit card. I was blown apart by this question as this was the same official who was supposed to search for my lost card and he doesn’t even know how to operate one?

 

He presented me with a purse of a lady named Ashita Dhar which was full of debit cards, credit cards, a Shoppers Stop card and a Jet Airways frequent flier card and her license. I had to sit and explain to him how does a card operate, to my surprise he even had a pin for an ATM in the purse, he insisted me to tell him the procedure of taking out money from the card. After understanding, he called one of his fellow officer for accompany him to ATM as he wanted to check how can he withdraw money, question is, was it FAIR?

 

Shouldn’t he have just gone and search for lady’s contact details, when I suggested him to do so he replied of having no time. Though he had time to question the will of the gentleman who handed over this purse to him ignoring his own will.

 

Had he wanted to help the woman, he could have had easily checked the address from driving license and handed over the card, but he was more interested in taking out cash from ATM and using the cards. How can I expect such a police to find my lost card?

 

A few questions again to all of you:

 

• If we find such a purse full of plastic cards, should we hand it over to police or try to give it ourselves directly? I would definitely not hand it over to police as I do not trust them post this incident
• Living in 2008, our police doesn’t know the functionality of a debit and credit card, how can we expect to solve them cases of such thefts?
• If this is the situation for plastic, imagine would police be able to help us reduce the loss of Intellectual Property, soft wares, music, phones etc,?

 

I as a common man refuse to trust our Police, would you?

 

 

Fear of being next

I guess god didn’t want me to wait for long to get an answer to my questions.

A few minutes back I received a SMS that almost answered to a lot of my questions I had asked in my previous post. Those few words shared on my mobile screen spoke a thousand words even without speaking, they reflected how does a young Indian today feel about what’s happening around him.

Before starting the description let me copy what SMS read, it said

“Hi, I am going to Sarojini Nagar to buy a surprise for my mom and I haven’t told my mom about it, if a bomb explodes please do call her and let her know.”

After talking about doubts in the minds of people, a constant fear roaming on roads, it was just a matter to talk. But, never in my wild imagination had I thought it to be true to the fact that we would start informing everyone before stepping out of our houses.

What are we doing? Aren’t we in a way making fun of our democracy? Aren’t we scared to use our rights given to us by constitution?

What do I tell to this friend of mine? If I say your fear is false, I am not justified to myself, if I say you should not go out I am letting the terrorism win over our mindset.

Eitherways, its I who as a common man lose.

Are we safe of are we next?

Sitting by the window of a coffee shop in CP at 6:30 PM, busy in discussions with friends i heard a loud explosion. I suddenly got up to see what happened, after seeing a cloud of smoke over the Central Park, i understood it is something serious. A waiter rushed in shouting "It's a bomb blast". All of us were asked to be seated, though majority of people potrayed to be casual, ignoring the shout. While most of us were enjoying food and drinks, i was observing people rushing outside, it was a contrast of 2 worlds.


I imm. called home and informed dad about me being safe, he insisted to rush back home(he didnt know about rest of the blasts). 

My heart prompted me to go and help people, my mind forced me to rush back home. Honestly, fear and learnings from Ahemdabad, Surat and Bangalore blast didnt let me go beyond myself and my mind won. 

As soon as i got out of the coffee shop, i got the horrific news of 5 explosions. Badly nervous, i started my drive back home, trying to call all my friends staying near by CP and GK. It wasn't a good experience, with traffic on road and jammers placed in blast affected area, it was next to impossible to reach out to anyone.

It was all still better until i saw what has happened on TV after coming back home. I realised that a few meters away from me were lying dead bodies, innocents who didnt even know who killed them, who dint even know why they are killed.


A couple of thoughts:

Are we safe? What is the gurantee that next time we are not the ones targeted?

Why is it that us and the govt is always reactive?

Will there is a permanent solution to such issues?

Is it fair to shy away from helping people being scared of another blast? (specially ones at hospital)



And if you call yourself Indian Mujahideen then why are you killing innocent fellow Indians?