Divya's Blog

so it’s been a while with the posts and that has been entirely due to disastrous health issues….first the back and then an asthma attack & the flu rolled into one! it’s been a tough coupla days….but today i had to write!

the qasab verdict is out! and he is (surprise, surprise !!) guilty! FINALLY!

17 months down the line we can punish one of the several terrorists who held our city hostage for those 48 hrs….with photographic evidence , i’m not sure why we needed to make hundred’s of witnesses relive the trauma of that night…but atleast the verdict is finally in!

what is interesting however is the way the newspapers talk of him…i read of his fondness for bollywood and lata mangeshkar in a paper today and about his well formed, beautiful hands…now i’m sorry—i don’t think we need to idolize a known terrorist…i don’t think we need to make a martyr out of him or create a fallen hero! maybe, having written my play ‘A Personal war’  which covers stories of survivors from the terror attacks maybe i have  an undercurrent of unreleased anger but i think that his fondness for his family and love for his siblings maybe ’sweet ‘ for some but alot of people that died that day also had parents and siblings….whom they were equally fond of , if not more fond of!

Maybe the press is trying to ‘humanize’ a terrorist…make us see that he was more than a mechanical gun-toting robot!

i don’t know. but i’m not interested. i’d rather celebrate the lives we saved that day, the lives that saved others…..the lives who fight every day because they can’t get the image of a crazed, bullet-showerring lunatic from their head…

i’d rather know about what they eat for breakfast today and whether they still like bollywood…i’d rather celebrate OUR HEROES than make a hero of a cowardly terrorist who senselessly and ruthelessly killed hundreds.

i’d rather celebrate OUR HEROES!

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