After month of lull of any fatal terror attack in the heartland of India this time on the evening of 13th May terrorists chose pink city as their target. Nine serial bomb blasts near the world famous Hawamahal took 63 human lives.

Just few days back I was thinking that probably things are changing, hoping that in future our life would not be exposed to such brutal face of death. I though our children would again grow up without looking at such bloody scenes in their childhood. I think I was too optimistic about the augmentation of the tolerance level and the patience of those insane people who taking the excuse of religion or painful past don’t hesitate to plant bombs to take away the life of common people.

This time it’s another small outfit named Indian Mujahideen who has claimed responsibility for carrying out this deadly attack in Jaipur. It’s good to know that this outfit also launched a diatribe against Muslims who do not support terrorism, calling them a ‘bunch of coward’ and vowing punishment to them unless they sought forgiveness.

So such radical outfits acknowledged the major presence of liberal Muslims and their resistance within. They must know that whatever happens such large fraction of the community won’t ever support the shedding of the blood of innocent and will stand forever against such religious freaks whose ideas are based on intolerance. By organizing this fatal bomb attacks they not only killed 63 innocent common people but also the entire humanity.

Yes they might have forgotten to learn from the Quran itself where it is written clearly that killing of even one innocent person is akin to the killing of entire humanity. No, if heaven is there they must stop dreaming of finding a place there by committing such heinous crime.

Well it’s truly disappointing to see how politicians have indulged themselves in the blame game. So many saffron politicians and other intelligence officials are holding responsible the lack of any tough law to deal with the terrorist. Already the issue of revoking of POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) can be heard in high pitch from the parties which implemented it in past. But it has been proved that BJP led governments always used this impious act against a particular community.

One intelligence officer points out to the ineffectiveness of the general law showing examples of delayed justice in case of Mumbai bomb blast, Hyderabad Bomb Blast, Varanasi Bomb Blast etc. But everyone is emphasizing more on the curing of the symptoms but not the disease itself. Sri Krishna Commission even though said that the Mumbai Blast was due to the violent repercussion of the Mumbai riots happened two months back, but its recommendations are still not implemented. Though we are successful enough to punish the culprits of Mumbai Bomb Blasts after long 13 years but we are yet nab any of the murderers in the Mumbai riot cases. Same goes with the Gujarat riot cases where state itself gets involved in the killing of its citizens.

We want to live in a more secure India; we want a place where fear of life won’t be a regular thing. India must strengthen its internal security system by better networking and probably by following the federal system that has already been advised by the experts. And moreover justice must be given to every victim so that the faith remains there on our judicial system. We believe change is possible.

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Who will bell the cat?

In recent times a controversy is very much in the air and that is fuelled by the Union Health Minister Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss. He has literally attacked the smoking on screen and also complained that the surrogate advertisements have increased with the latest platform as in Indian Premier League cricket matches which have a massive viewership. He has argued that creativity as an art should be used for improving lives instead of taking them and claimed Tobacco and alcohol together make a perfect recipe for early death.

Well about me I would like to say that neither I drink nor I smoke and I vehemently oppose both as a part of our lifestyle. No, not for the reason that my name sounds Muslim but for the fact that since childhood I had experienced the adverse impact of these on the society and I find it hard to acknowledge that the major source of energy of a nation the youth community would be under the curse of unhealthy practices. Many of my friends have embraced smoking and drinking with the course of life. Mostly since the school level and some after coming to this Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) where smoking is a commonplace. Now among all my old friends only as little as 5% are untouched by these harmful practices. I am proudly one of them.

I unquestionably find it a matter of concern that over a million deaths in India occur due to Tobacco use, and according to the World Health Organization study 15% of the school children here in India use Tobacco. It is also proved that 52% of youngsters start smoking after being influenced by movies. Being the Convener of University Film Club of AMU I had noted some interesting figures given by the Health Minister and if things are judged too closely then I personally believe there must be a line drawn between creativity in the film and the present scenario regarding drinking and smoking. It is stated that India produces the largest numbers of movies in the world (900 in year 2001). In the 1950’s, 30 percent of films had smoking scenes with an alarming percentage touching 89 in 2004. Yes indeed it’s true earlier the characters depicted as smokers in the movies in 1950’s were only villains or ‘bad guys’. Now 76% of smoking scenes are done by heroes or lead characters. And yes from my personal experience I have seen that the idea of a ‘negative hero’ is quite alluring for the youths these days. Today it’s very much true that drinking is characterised as macho, youthfulness, and acceptability in elite social circles. The idea is indeed futile. The average drinking age in India from the average age of 28 now it has come down to shocking 19.

It’s really interesting to see that the latest two movies by Tamil Megastar Rajnikant were smoke free and biggest hits in the history of entire Indian Film Industry.

We will have to build a new India which will be free from all evils. And India has not turned into an individualistic society, and so many times harmful practices like this affected the entire family. A youth is very much liable to his family and all the responsibilities to the nation. So he must need to be educated and aware of everything.

Let’s address on these issues boldly and find a better solution.

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