Memory is too short!!

More than 100 people lost their life in Merrut fire. For few days all newspaper columns and TV news slots were full of this tragedy. Then everybody forgot it and started talking about blasts in Jama Masjid and Srinagar. Politicians visited Merrut and then disappeared. They were doing their duty, and now to attend to elections in five states. Administration underplayed the number of those who died. They were doing their duty. When will we learn? When we will become human beings?

Who is the third General Dyer in Rang De Basanti?

British government could produce only one General Dyer in its more than two hundred years rule over India. But government of Indians, in its just 50 years of rule over India has produced many General Dyers. Profile of such two General Dyers can be seen in Rang De Basanti.

One General Dyer is Raksha Mantri who orders lathi charge on peaceful people, including women and children, who assembled at India Gate to mourn the death of an Air Force officer and to protest the behaviour of Raksha Mantri. Other General Dyer's voice is heard when he orders that he will not like to see any survivors when security forces charged AIR office where some students were present. The face of this General Dyer could not be seen. Who is this General Dyer? I think about him and many faces emerge before my eyes. Any one could have been this General Dyer.

Don't you agree my countrymen?