Friday, November 25, 2011

An open letter to Ajmal Kasab

Time, as they say, is the master of all.  Three years, three long years have so blissfully passed that it’s impossible to think of our existence without you.
Three years ago, on an old November evening of 26/11/ 2008, you with your impaling bullets landed at the VT station, Mumbai and entered straightaway to our hearts. Your blue Armani t shirt and beige cargo pants we all still fondly remember. 
the courage you shot millions of innocent or to put it bluntly, dumb Indians whose life are of no value, with was almost gladiatorial as the AK 47 in your hand that seemed no less than a scepter. 
Court cases, numerous proceedings and the usual political stuff followed after the massacre you and your friends dared to. Your story was so truth defying that some even wanted to make a bollywood potboiler on it.
But you were and still very much are profusely valiant, for it’s not a kid’s joke to enter a country, kill a couple of high rank police officers and a few other hundred people and still hold one’s head high in public just on the account of being a teenager.
We even provided you with  lawyers. not one or two but three , someone to talk on behalf of one who killed and conspired to kill millions others. Doesn’t that sound lame if not quadriplegic that we wanted you to defend you, one who has a visible proof of being mercenary??

Three years, for three long years, we have fed you the most exotic of Indian dishes from biryanis to aloo dums. 
And as you may have heard during your stay in India, we Indians religiously follow the adage “atithi devo bhava”. In English it means, the guest is god. But sadly, you can’t appreciate any of these since you only speak, read and write in Arabic. 
We in India are not much of a technology freak but we have installed CCTV cameras at some places to show off and some of them actually work. Fortunately or unfortunately, blame it on your bad (or was it good?) luck, one of them mistakenly caught you (sic) while you were on the killing spree. But videos can be distorted with. They can be altered and even be animated. You have a valid reason to be free.
To me, you are a celebrity-ette. Newspapers carry your photographs, everybody from our PM Manmohan Singh to the teas stall boy discusses you as you pass your days, lost in the solitary gloom, perhaps thinking of future plans for mass destruction.
Sixteen crore. Sixteen crore is the amount we have spent on you during the past three years. But in a country where ministers so proudly engage in scams worth a couple of thousand crore, sixteen crore is really a minuscule amount. Isn't it ??

Judiciary in India is supposed to be the highest of all but some political parties, for their own benefit tend to influence its decisions. Thus, you with your distant cousin from the world of terror, afzal guru relax in a Indian jail, partly sure that both of you will walk away someday, breathing fresh air, on the wobbly promise of human rights.
America has already finished off your grandpa Osama, but you need not to worry as you will be pretty safe in Indian jails.
As I end this letter, I pray to the god almighty for your long, happy and prosperous stay in India ahead.
Jai hind! 

2 comments:

  1. yeah wat a waste of resources on him

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  2. actually, its not.
    in a way we are encouraging kindness and benevolence.
    after all, it's our moral duty to safeguard the rights of a assasin !!

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