RESPONSE TO MUMBAI ATTACKS ARTICLE

Beautiful blog!, Abhay, that is the perspective thats needed!! Hopefully, the recent attacks help people look into the issue with greater urgency, indulge in some soul/fact searching and embrace the viewpoint you put forth! Please do as much as you can to publicize the blog/article you wrote!!

Lets not forget
@ Abhay
Brilliant Article dude...

To be honest this is a first of a kind from a communist, An Unbiased article where neither is a terrorist attack being justified nor Hindus being infairly abused and blamed...although there are traces of it...

I have always admired your analytical thinking and your ability to be free from political mythos that bind most of us. This has lead to this beautifully analysed and expertly articulated article... If somebody can pass this to the impotent government we still have hope...

When i started reading the solutions suggested by you i thought that again you are going down the often travelled and mostly abused road "Peace with Neighbours- at all Cost". Bcoz i am tired of hearing people telling us how dangerous pakistan is and any action will lead to annihilation... The aggressive solution suggested by you including Covert operations must be pursued at all cost even if it escalates to War...
Remember shakespeare:-
"Cowards die a death every day , the valiant get it once"[\b]

My pickup line from your blog is definately this "This incident changed the view of many moderates towards Islamic terrorism, including me". This is what i have been attempting to portray through my messages.

I felt my chest expand a few inches when i read that the Indian muslims had refused to bury the terrorists as these animals should not receive any respect that even a dead erson deserves. I felt proud to be an indian and appreciated the uniqueness of our culture... definately this attack has brought us all together irrespective of our religions and ideology...



Lets not forget
Having said adove,,, Your analysis of the problem is way different than Arundhati..
She sickeningly justifies this Massacre also.. and blames her usual suspects
Hindus, Capitalism, Bush, and predicts the fall of India...
Why would they kill Jews if they are angry with Indians.. Why would they kill a pregnant women and leave a 2 year old baby crying for her mother? why?
If you happen to meet her, put some positive thoughts into her..
Ask her to see this:::
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/slideshow/msid-3814184.cms?imw=460


Jawahar
@lets not forget

She sickeningly justifies this Massacre also.. and blames her usual suspects
Hindus, Capitalism, Bush, and predicts the fall of India...

She never said "hindus" it is infact "hindu extremism" that she was refering to. And she was not justifying anything. But was trying to impress upon the idea that, this attack, yet again is a symptom, not the disease!!, which btw, is not any different from the Abhay's blog. Anyway, Abhay might want to comment on that!



awahar
btw, I was refering to her comments on mumbai attacks from here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436ZYOImdUc


Lets not forget
Jawahar
Alrite, she says Hindu extremism, explain this to me please

how on earth would Hindu extremism result in terrorists killings Jews then???

what kind of Logic is this???

Jawahar
@lets not forget

Firstly, I totally understand your point.

Though I am a big fan of Ms Roy, I think she was in a way, caught on the wrong foot in this particular case. However, if you listen to the interview keenly, she was referring to some "25 men" which was the initial Government speculation, along with the speculation that some local(indian) extremists must have been instrumental in this attack.

Taking these initial Govt speculations as "facts", she must have given her analysis.

Also, from your statement, you seem to infer that if they were indeed indian born terrorist, they would have let the foreign Jews off. Am I understanding it right?


busy abhay
@ everyone


when a person follows an ideology there are chances that his own ideas become a slave to that ideology and lead to stagnation. this doesn't necessarily means his ideology is wrong but he somehow looses his reasoning power to look beyond that particular ideology. His paradigm gets limited to that ideology which leads to stagnation!I am greatly impressed by Marx views , Stalin views and then Mao's views .
But i dont blindly accept all their views and try to question them in my mind, and sometimes i dont find answer correctly from them. then i read the contrary view also. thats the reason i read the times of India though i feel its mostly a trash!


the basic flaw with all of us is to expect a human being to be totally perfect or evil. no human being can be so, he is laible to faults , he is not superhuman and thus he will make mistake. but to think Gandhiji was mahatma who was above criticism is stupid , for that matter i even criticize Bhagwan Ram for leaving Sita , though i appreciate his other qualities. there are flaws in everyone! \



busy abhay
@ For ARUNDHATI ROYS SPEECH
well i didn't like her this speech very much. not because it was wrong, but for it being a little out of touch with the current issue. what she says is absolutely right , the cancer cannot be treated by applying bandages. But cancer patients are given morphine to overcome acute pain at that moment.

these terrorists are to be condemned in every way possible.

i even criticized the terrorists earlier , but i dont know why u never feel it! the only difference this time was i didnt have any sympathy at all with them, reason being the heinous act they have done! but so have all other terrorists and they all should be butchered , irrespective of religion. But will this solve the problem???
nobecause the cause of terrorism are lying deep down and this cause and its soultion is given rightly by Arundhati


@KAPIL

i will again request you buddy to read her " AN ordinary Persons guide to the Empire" .then u will realize she is the biggest opponent of terror!