Terrorists Have Already Entered Sir..!
In a few days Mumbai’s home minister will stand at the Gateway of India and light a candle as his eye wanders to the sea from where the terrorists entered the city a year ago: “Sir why do you stare at the sea?”
“I am looking to see whether terrorists are entering the city! I know last time they came by boat got down outside those sea walls, clambered over and played havoc with the city. So I am keeping watch myself!”
“They have already entered sir!”
“What?”
“They are already in the city, terrorizing people, thrashing elected representatives in the House, vandalizing offices of TV channels, slapping women workers! Your terrorists are in the city Mr Home Minister!”
“But I have spent millions on boats, guns to arm the policemen, binoculars to spot them a mile away…”
“While they crept in under your nose sir!”
“What weapons do I need to fights these terrorists?”
“Not guns sir, but will and determination to stop these two terror outfits from getting away with their sponsored acts of goonda terror..!”
But the state home minister continues looking out into the sea.
And in the same city, two cricket heroes, both legendary greats are being compared to each other. Sachin ridiculed and Gavaskar praised, and as I listen to coal fire being heaped on Sachin and roses given to Sunil, both proud sons of their state I think of many parents who play one child against the other:
“Hello son!”
“Hi dad!”
“I hate your brother, he is a rogue, a rascal, not like you my angel, my pet and the apple of my eye!”
“Whoa, whoa dad, but a few months back it was the other way?”
“Oh my beloved son, how much you’ve done for us, our home and family, seeing that all your brothers and cousins got jobs; helping us all to come up, whereas your brother Sachin, that rascal…”
And like an agony aunt who answers queries readers write in with I have some advice for Gavaskar. ‘This is the time you stand by your younger brother Sachin:’
“Dad!”
“My son, my beloved son!”
“Dad!”
“So unlike my other son!”
“No dad! We’ve had enough! Enough of you pushing brother against brother, Indian against Indian! Outsider against Insider! Do you understand? We’ve had enough!”
Last year at the Gateway the crowd shouted, ‘Enough! Enough!’ and a home minister was kicked out for not looking after the city. This year the same man has come back to his old post and terror rules the streets again..!
‘They have already entered sir, isn’t it time you stop this nonsense?’
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