Saturday, February 7, 2009

This is Indian crying Moshe
Mumbai mayhem provokes anti-politician SMS wave


Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi Friday, December 5, 2008





Now enough is enough! We do not need these buffoons (leaders) to run our country, let’s thank our brave jawans who have saved our lives and stopped our country from becoming an inferno”.



The fight between the ‘Civil India and Political India’ has taken route of SMS after Mumbai mayhem-- the miffed voices can be heard not only on the street, lanes and by-lanes of all over country but Jharkhand shares similar sentiments where people are getting such SMS with request to forward them to others.


While the political class has taken exception to continuous pitbull’s aggression against them by the so-called perfume and lipstick bearing class but it is hard for them to resist a common man’s SMS - “You can put a lipstick on a pig, it is still a pig.”


A good number of people said to have received such SMS from some anonymous senders and from their friends. The content of the messages are full of praise for soldiers for protecting the people and equal scorn for politicians.



Such messages started flowing a day after Mumbai carnage with a pointed attack on the politicians. These SMSes have become one of the ways to express solidarity and determination of the civil society to fight terrorism with the help of brave soldiers “because politicians have played possum with our life” says a running text of an SMS received by Ragini Singh of Lalpur.


These heated and tongue in chick SMSes are continuing to roast political class and party in general and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Shivraj patil, RR Patil, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Kerla Chief Minister Achuthanandan in particular for their casual approach and colloquial expressions like ‘dog’ remarks.


Loosing two of its people in Mumbai carnage; Ranchi has the reason to be anguished over the inept handling of the internal security of the country people in Ranchi drip with glee when they receive SMS telling story about politicians facing humiliation at the hand of the family of martyrs. It is the part of citizens’ movement against politicians that exploded and snowballed into a major challenge for the politicians.

Here people have been receiving such SMSs searching for MNS Chief, Raj Thackeray: “Plz. forward Raj Thackeray’s phone no if U find it. Don’t know where he is when U need him. We want him to save amchi Mumbai along with MNS goondas. “THE” son of soil. Army, NSG commandos are not Marathi Manoos…why should they lay their life for Mumbaikars…”


“I received an SMS by an anonymous sender-’for the first time, I am not proud to be Indian.’ I did not know the sender but I respected his sentiment by forwarding this text message to my father”, said Rashmi Priya a school going girl.


A recent edition in this SMS campaign is the multimedia message- the grieving Moshe Holtzberge, the two-year old orphan who lost his parents in the Nariman House attack.


One such message had drawn crowds on the streets of Colaba in Mumbai to pay homage to the martyred NSG jawans and security personals. In Ranchi another such SMS flashed on the mobile screen: “Let’s get together and show solidarity n support 4 innocent lives n in hope dat this gets over for ever plz. put a candle in their memory.”


The surge of humanity could be seen with candle in their hand in Ranchi with their lips mumbling in the prayer of the innocent lives and chest blew up for the valour of the security personals.

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