While my sympathies are with minal and her family and the act of shooting innocent victims is completely deprolable, I fail to undeerstand why most of us Indians are anguished by things happening outside the country and are less bothered about things happening in India. Do we still have the colonial hangover?
RE:Mourning minal
by Kumarendra Mallick on Apr 18, 2007 12:22 PM Permalink
No Richa, it is not that we are not bothered about what is happening here at home. Human tragedy every where is painful. Do you remember the poem,'..For whom the bell tolls..' If there be a bus tragedy in Chile or if a boat is capsized in Congo, these are reported in newspapers. Why ? These are human tragedies. These pain us. There is no colonial hangover in this case, though that is prersent in other spheres, like present day craze for branded material among the youths, reducing the size of dresses to minimum by young girls etc etc.
RE:Mourning minal
by Vishal Jadhav on Apr 18, 2007 12:35 PM Permalink
lol@ reducing the size of dresses! :D. Though I agree with u on the "human tragedies" aspect.
RE:Mourning minal
by the_one on Apr 18, 2007 12:36 PM Permalink
Human Cost Index is dependent upon several factors. I will list a couple of them.
Skin color : White, Brown,Black Religion: Christianity, Hinduism,Iskam Race: Whites,Rest of the world
therefore HCI will vary for persons living in different regions. simple mathematics anyways 10 beggars dying is no news. Who anyway cared if they lived also!
RE:Mourning minal
by on Apr 18, 2007 01:04 PM Permalink
Giving permission to buy GUNs (to the students) may be PENTAGUNz policy. But I feel by mistake this would have happend. Poor korean guy while purchasing the gun he would not have been told how to use the gun. This innocent guy would have tried to test fire his new GUN which ultimately got mis- fired killing innocent peoples. I blame PentagOn for supplying GUN and without giving instruction manual (how to shoot) to the poor korean guy. The killer may be an innocent labelled terrorist now !
RE:Mourning minal
by Asis Chakborty on Apr 18, 2007 01:19 PM Permalink
humanity requires no geography boundary.mass killing is always condemnable,be it in india or abroad.my sympathy for all the victims.
