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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I wouldn't entirely blame Dr. Haneef. As Indians, we have little self-respect and mostly bother about greener pastures wherever they might be. What does a govt job pay and how can it keep up the lifestyle of a foreign-return doc?
I dont for one moment appreciate the K'take CM giving Haneef a job. Is the normal recruitment process being bypassed here (even tho it might a good gesture)? Does the CM even know if Haneef is a good worker? K'take/India should have fought Australia on principles and showed them how to behave, like Russia is doing to UK now.
Like u point out..who is to blame? I think its a collective responsibility. And according to NarayanaMurthy the only way out of the problem we have that u mention(jobs, good education for farmers etc) is becoming a fully capitalistic country (with some humane of course). Unconnected tho it might seem, but it sure is a great answer to all the problems we have.
guru
ok..nice points first of all..just to add on..i dont think its a big deal at the first place , the whole "Haneef" fiasco..everyone gets checked at the airport, u r made to remove ur shoes..we just think its a formality..this is just taking it to the next level, and frankly if u think ur country's security is at risk, then there is nothing wrong...if at all india could be a little more stringent on its own security issues, we can avoid a lot of our dreadful incidents..and all this job offering thing, these people never stop putting up a show, do they??
that guy wants to back to that very country which arrested him for christ's sake..what the hell are these people thinking !!!
First off...good round-up on the entire issue. The fact that a Muslim doctor was involved in such an issue itself unnerves me in the first place. To be quite honest with you, in the initial stages of this controversy, I was afraid to read up on any news relating to Dr. Haneef, fearing it may may implicate him and bring even a worse name for Muslims than there already is in the international stage right now.
But then I began seeing that Aussie police might have doctored his diary and headlines like that which made me read the news and understood what really happened. What touches me the most is that people still stand up for human rights no matter what the governments do to disrespect them. I was surprised to see people taking to the streets with placards asking the government to release him and revoke anti-terrorist laws once it was clear they had doctored evidence against him. People still standing up for justice, irrespective of religion! Now that can't be overcome by any mindless administration running a war in the name of liberation and freedom.
All that said, it came as a shock to me when I read that he was willing to go back to work in a country which humiliated him so much. I did not know that till I read your blog. But I don't blame him. Who in this age would leave a higher-paying job and a comfortable life in a so-called developed country than take up a job offered by the Karnataka government. The fact that they were ready to offer him a job is really surprising. I would have thought anything more in terms of monetary compensation or benefits would have been more prudent and sufficient than giving him a job.There are probably many other ways to compensate for the trauma he and his family have faced.
To wrap it up, this entire issue was a fiasco which turned out to be an embarrassment for both the Australian and the Indian governments and the true beneficiary of it is Dr. Haneef. This itself should be compensation enough for what he has been through. But like you said, all of us extend our sympathies towards him and his family.
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