Thursday, January 03, 2008

It's not personal

It is somewhat of a mystery to me, why exactly are we (we as in we Indians) supposed to grieve for Benazir Bhutto because, not to sound insensitive or anything, that woman was complicit in killing thousands of Indians. Oh, I suppose it is natural to have a tinge of sympathy, but seriously my sympathy is limited and I will rather spend it on some one who is more deserving. For instance people with no prospect of job.
This is not to say of course that people should gloat, for the simple reason that gloating is just distracting. The problem that Pakistan poses goes beyond what Bhutto did or did not do.
Let's keep the focus folks !

PS. Arnab, Ashok Malik

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

boy, you must have seen one of those email forwards which claim to be a younger-aged bhutto's photo. You will grieve, for various reasons and none of it concerns her being great leader, peacenik or whatever.