Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Is India over reacting on trivial matters?

Recently film star SRK was under detention for 2 hrs at Newyork Airport. SRK started accusing US airport authorities that he was under detention as his name ends with 'KHAN'. Now India started to react on this matter. Our aviation minister Mr. Praful Patel said to the reporters "We will take the issue with the United States government strongly. Such incidents involving Indians due to their religion or nationality should not happen... we will not accept it".But the government is forgetting that VIPs are not above law. The ghost of 9/11 is still haunting U.S. They are very much concerned about the security. Interestingly on the same day that SRK was detained, American singer 'Bob Dylan' was asked for an ID by two young cops to know who he really was. When he couldn’t furnish one, he was taken right back to the resort where he was putting up and staff there vouched for him. America is Dylan's own country. In a country like US celebrities are not treated specially. But coming to India we treat them as 'GODs'. People and the government over-react to the slightest discomfort their GOD faces. This should change. They may be popular but that doesn't give them special status in all aspects. The government shouldn't have reacted in such a way. Till now they were not concerned about all the security checks Asians undergo but once a celebrity faces problem they started to react seriously. The government should learn from US regarding security checks. We should take our security more seriously n treat all persons may be a common man or a celebrity equally.

About one week back a Chinese strategist wrote in one of his article in some Chinese website that China should help divide India.It was an article written by some unknown Beijing strategist on an obscure Chinese website calling for 'splitting India' which may or may not be backed by the Chinese government.But Indian government was quick enough to react on the issue. Is it really necessary for the Indian government to react on what some anonymous blogger wrote. Now-a-days we find many blogs on the internet which are controversial. Some may hurt Indians feelings but should we really need to take them seriously. The answer is no. Those blogs are their thoughts n beliefs and they have right to express their feelings. Individuals may react on it but governments are not supposed to react. Media also plays an important role about which issues should be given more importance. Highlighting trivial issues like this may create tension between nations and may lead to war. So even media should decide before making any issues.

In India we are suffering from many problems. The government should react on those problems and try to solve them. Instead if they start reacting on trivial issues they will loose their dignity. So stop over reacting and work for the development of the nation.

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