Relive the experience: 26/11

Watching ‘The Attacks of 26/11’ movie was not only a thrilling experience but also a traumatized one. It frightened to the fact that it was based on a reality. The movie gave an implication that of a fear. One could visualize the terror encompassing the real past. It was to relive the dread trauma.

The first half of the movie revealed the horrifying replicated version of the real-life violence that emerged in several places of Mumbai on 26 November 2008. The ferocious onslaught of attacks directed in the movie readily produced the same terror. It gave a threatening experience of a reality. The shoot out at Leopold café, Taj Hotel, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus carried out in the movie gave a near death experience of terror happened then.

The second half of the movie focuses on the actions of the police forces to stop the terrorists while the latter attack the Cama hospital. The brutality of these attackers depicted in the first part of the movie remains not only the same but is aggravated with repugnance.

The movie tries to justify with the victims of 26/11 by visualizing the execution of kasab in front of them. It tries to sooth the disturbed sentiments of the whole humanity while advocating the meaning of Jihad and Shahdad of Quran to the attacker kasab by a Hindu on humanitarian grounds.

The story commutes through the mouth of Joint Commissioner as he recounts the 26/11 attacks in his report in front of his senior officials. The storyline captures the participation of Joint Commissioner Rakesh Maria played by Nana Patekar and Kasab by Sanjeev Jaiswal as its major focal points.

The question that could be raised against the movie is that it does not deal with the attacks of Oberoi Trident as well as the Nariman house. Also the movie focuses the execution of Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist captured alive with the police leaving out the others. It does not display the final assault that ended there because of the operation taken out by NSG Commandos through helicopters.

‘The Attacks of 26/11’, thus doesn’t throw light on the entire incident yet surely captures the fright of that terror that shook the soul of the entire world. The movie is Ram Gopal Varma’s attempt to perhaps relive those tense moments, and pay a tribute to the martyrs who lost their lives while encountering the terrorists.

BEHIND THE VIEW

Was Afzal Guru death sentence justified? Yes he was a criminal, a convict of Parliament Attacks 2001 who deserved harsh punishment. But why his death sentence pointed at the loopholes in our jurisdiction. If he was a criminal, why wasn’t he given a fair trial?

 Guru was one of the accused in the case of assault on the Parliament on 13 December 2001. He was sentenced to death in 2002 and his execution was to be carried out on October 2006 but remained on the death row. His mercy petition, which was pending with the President for long was finally rejected and even before the family of Afzal Guru could get a chance to appeal against the turning down of plea for clemency, Guru was hanged. My question is why a man who was declared a convict, given a sentence to death was kept waiting for his death. It’s not less than a living hell to see your death the every other day.

His family was not even informed of his hanging on time. As per home minister his family was informed a day before execution while the letter reaches the family on Monday long after Afzal’s hanging. However the system later reasoned this much secrecy being a part of security and safety. Even the sources said the Prime Minister told the home minister that it was alright to be tough on terror but the delay in informing Guru's family was not how "state craft" is conducted. The question rises here is were Afzal Guru’s wife and son equally deserved to share the abhorrence meant for Afzal Guru? Was it a justifiable act of humanity? Later, his family was not handed over his body but buried at Tihar jail. What a dead Afzal had possibly done against the court or parliament.

He confessed that he facilitated the plan for the money. He also cried over how he was forced to confess things he didn’t do. Even if he did all things he was made to confess, why and how could possibly a criminal tensed the handlings of the law and order?

The question is not whether his hanging was a justified punishment for his doings but it is why the man wasn’t given a lawyer who could actually enlighten his side. If he did a crime as we all know, he would have anyhow ended up getting a fair punishment. In their petition to the President of India, many social activists and academics point out “The fact that the Court appointed as amicus curiae (friend of the court) a lawyer in whom Afzal had expressed no faith; the fact that he went legally unrepresented from the time of his arrest till his so-called confession, the fact that the court asked him to either accept the lawyer appointed by the Court or cross examine the witness himself should surely have concerned you while considering his mercy petition.”

Thus, was it just the Afzal Guru’s case or every other case goes through such delicacies of jurisdiction? Whether a criminal or an innocent does it anyhow hide the loopholes of the so called law and order? Take someone else’s case and think, have you neglected such apertures of the law and order?

A lie that breaches away...........

Lots of gap between you and me, 
You claim my presence is what all you need. 
i carried that perception and trusted you, 
but my faith was shattered when i knew the truth. 
i believed your sayings because i believed in god, 
i believed that you are pure,a gift from my god. 
A friend is all i needed,a friend to care and love 
A friend to do nothing but help me through my bad luck. 
You lied to me and i believed you intensely, 
was it my fault or your tendency? 
i m so hurt n full of pain 
 wish it were a dream that end the other way 
                                     but its all real,a lie that breaches away.

Dream of my life......

Dreams are so many,

So many the you,

relevance of others dreams,

may not b the same for you.

you run and chase,

you stop and cry,

you try and try,

but the world is sly.

not to loose the hope,

if the shaft of light is nowhere,

being modest fetches you nothing,

after all it doesn't belong everywhere.

keep struggling for your life,

the struggle remains the same,

so what if for some, when the money steps in,

their dreams are often changed.

but for who, the fight is one,

strive remains intact to the dream of life,

nothing changes their dream

no matter how hard it is to survive.

the one wins the race n cherish their dream,

relevance of which to others is unseen,

Dreams are so many,

So many the you,

relevance of others dream,

may not b the same for you.