The "Hero" in Haneef!
After hitting the headlines consistently for almost a month, Bengaluru saw Dr. Mohammed Haneef return to his native city...as nothing less than a "hero". Every page of the newspaper had someone or the other pouring in their sympathies for Haneef and his family. Our good old PM went one step ahead by saying he was in tears after watching Haneef's family suffer.
If only all these politicians realize that there are millions and millions of our own country men suffering right under their eyes. After all, Dr. Haneef is someone who doesn't even want to stay back in India after all the "support" and the "help" that have been offered, which even includes a job from the Karnataka government! However, Dr. Haneef doesn't want that job, and prefers to go "back" to Australia, the country which supposedly disgraced him! So much for "making" Dr. Haneef a hero.
Who's to blame here? The media? The politicians? or us, living in this god-forsaken country?
Even I stand to offer my sympathies towards Dr. Haneef and his family. But this issue doesn't look any different from the flooding and drought faced by the crores of farmers across the nation. Same is the plight of each and every child working to make ends meet at a stage when education should be their only goal. The unemployed youth of India will only be too happy to be offered similar jobs by the government. Their families are suffering too. They lead a horrendous life, not for just 28 days, but every single day!
The real heroes are the ones fighting inhospitable weather in addition to the constant threat from enemies in Kargil, the Siachien Glacier and the like. I don't suppose Dr. Haneef and his family deserve this royal treatment for being branded as a terrorist, and later released! The country needs some serious re-thinking on its policies to take steps towards vision 2020, and not make heroes out of nowhere!
All said and done, my sympathies still stand extended to Dr. Haneef...
If only all these politicians realize that there are millions and millions of our own country men suffering right under their eyes. After all, Dr. Haneef is someone who doesn't even want to stay back in India after all the "support" and the "help" that have been offered, which even includes a job from the Karnataka government! However, Dr. Haneef doesn't want that job, and prefers to go "back" to Australia, the country which supposedly disgraced him! So much for "making" Dr. Haneef a hero.
Who's to blame here? The media? The politicians? or us, living in this god-forsaken country?
Even I stand to offer my sympathies towards Dr. Haneef and his family. But this issue doesn't look any different from the flooding and drought faced by the crores of farmers across the nation. Same is the plight of each and every child working to make ends meet at a stage when education should be their only goal. The unemployed youth of India will only be too happy to be offered similar jobs by the government. Their families are suffering too. They lead a horrendous life, not for just 28 days, but every single day!
The real heroes are the ones fighting inhospitable weather in addition to the constant threat from enemies in Kargil, the Siachien Glacier and the like. I don't suppose Dr. Haneef and his family deserve this royal treatment for being branded as a terrorist, and later released! The country needs some serious re-thinking on its policies to take steps towards vision 2020, and not make heroes out of nowhere!
All said and done, my sympathies still stand extended to Dr. Haneef...
posted by thegaad at 2:18 AM
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