Terror Tourism..
Have you ever been on Mumbai Darshan? It has 23 Points of famous spots in Mumbai like Gateway of India, Sachin Tendulkar’s residence, Amitabh Bachans residence etc., now Mumbai Darshan has 3 more new locations
1. Oberoi Towers
2. Taj Mahal Hotel
3. Nariman House
The terror tourism was inaugurated by our honarable Cheif Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh , his son Ritesh Deshmukh and his friend (read: new mentor / director of his next film) Ram Gopal Varma.
As Mumbaikars after few weeks we are going to remember these locations as a part of Terror Tourism, you know why , because we will have something more to talk about, we might be discussing how many runs Dhoni needs to take to complete a certain record, will sachin tendulkar play today or not. If not any of these our Media people are good enough to give us a spicy story of some bollywood love affair or something related to some minister etc.,
Our memories are short lived, we are not going to remember even the names of the people who died protecting us from these terrorists. Can any of us name them without searching for their names in blog and search engines? No matter how ever bad our security agencies weapons are, but still these people who had sacrificed they lives to protect / save mumbai will be forgotten in short span of time.
Terror Tourism will be the only way we might remember then, that too because some political party will make a scribe at these location and inscribe the names of the people who lost their lives in these locations (i am not sure even this happen).
First few days of terror tourism, its with curiosity of what happened there, next few days we might want to show our friends or family what happened there, might even walk up to some wall to show the bullet marks.
We all are planning to meet on 3rd December infront of these terror tourism location, so that we can have the view of these locations and get some media coverage…this is what thats going to happen on 3rd December. We will not be adding any more value, none of our voices will be heard, for media its just a spicy news and moment to add value to their TRP by showing the live coverage…no actions will be there in the results of the protests or requests….
Our system need radical change, and it has to happen now. Boycott the tax payments, they can arrest if 10 people are not paying taxes, what if 1 million people are not going to pay their taxes, do we have jails to keep so many people? Protest and make a point in such a way that it will hit them where it hurt them the most. Our government is not poor, let them form a committee and show us the progress and the implementation of the security plans, then we will pay our taxes…can we do this?
Even I will forget about it in next few weeks, then what taking my friend / family to terror tourism will be my hobby , as with this kind of phase and environments, we might have few more terror tourism spots in near future…
I am angry – infact I am livid. That said and done, we are not a banana republic. We can not bring about anarchy. We have systems in place – we as citizens should ask questions and make the system accountable. I think we as citizens have been lazy – we have let morally bankrupt politicians and lax officials run the country. We need to get 49-0 into place – whereby we reject any inept or criminal politician. We have to force them into action for the country
Ritu
December 2, 2008 at 7:02 am
I am from Pune, people here also want to be a part of this. How do we contact you?
Himanshu
December 3, 2008 at 8:37 am
I feel sorry for RGV …guess the media foiled his plans of a movie big time…now he’ll have to sit tight and watch while the other directors go ahead and make the movie without a controversy attached to it!!
wemumbaikars
December 4, 2008 at 6:43 am
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Julissa
Julissa
December 5, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Do you think not paying taxes will do any good, infact the government will get another reason to stop working citing lack of funds. All in all, however we hate the system we are part of it. No body is concerned about the nation ne more, its all on personal level. People came out asking the government that will they be alive till the next election, but nobody said take me into the government, i will do what you could not do. But then why will anybody do that, that’s not my job rite?
We need new leadership and nobody seems to be interested about that, all people keep talking about is replacing Congress with BJP. But how is it going to help? One bunch of irresponsible, unqualified leaders will be replaced by another.
I think as long as we dont have a change in the entire system … things will keep happening and your list of must-see places in Mumbai and this country will keep increasing.
Shreyas
December 10, 2008 at 1:49 pm