Bangalore is riddled with rumors, stories, views, opinions and everything else for the past two days... The 2 days since that unthought of shooting happened in the Army Campus. Now first the facts.... This was a shooting of an intruder who had jumped into the Army premises to save his ass from the cops... Now opinions/views- He should have been arrested; Army and Cops should work closely to go after the real terrorists etc etc and rumors- This is a clear case of minority hate crimes from the Army and all other possible communal angles interspersed...
SO this is my quandry... I feel a bit bad about a youngster losing his life; but why did he need to indulge himself in something illegal? Why do drag racing when its not allowed? Why run away from Cops when they accoust you on commiting a crime? If youngsters do not want to own any part of the social fabric of this country; why have demonstrations against the system at all?
The thing with corruption is that it seems harmless till it doesnt affect or bite you. You get caught at a red light; you slip a 100 rupee note and scoot away. It is only when this manifests into BMWs and MERCs banging into innocent pedestrians that we feel the wealthy have got it easy in this country. We love to pay money to avoid the long queues at temples but its only when an Ambani or Bachaan reach there in private jets making you jostle for the darshan that you feel the heat (pun intended). Its great as long as your small shop gets stolen electricity but the department becomes useless the day someone from the family gets electrocuted by live-wire.
So it was great as Long as cops turned a blind eye to demonic younsters drag racing and putting innocent civilians at risk... The day some cop with a honest bone chased your kid the question for nabbing a younsgter gets challenged. Its great as long as the Army sleeps to glory letting terrorists infiltrate us left,right and centre but the day they knock off an intruder, they may have minority bias.
Wow Democracy, I salute thee!!!!
