Who's the biggest terrorist...?

Country is shaken by the back to back bomb blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

People are already ready with solutions. “Ban SIMI” says one. Others say bring back some strong law like POTA. Some are blaming it on SIMI, Indian Mujahudeen OR HUJI, some on the current national ruling party and rest on the lack of a common federal intelligence agency.

So who’s the biggest terrorist group…SIMI, HUJI, Indian Mujahudeen OR some one else…?

Let’s move little away from the terror strikes. Lets talk about India in general, a country with 70% of its population living in villages and 60 % of its population earning their bread through agriculture. Govt. marks lots of funds in the budget year after year for the welfare of the farmers. But the daily news paper headings about the farmers committing suicides say the plight of the farmers aloud.

If not farming then what will they do….? Govt. says we will give you guaranteed jobs for 100 days in a year through National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Crores being marked for the rural employment guarantee scheme, but again the official machinery is found to be too greedy for the goddess Laxmi.

So where are all the funds going ? It’s going in the foreign education of the kids of our Netas, Europe holiday trips of bureaucrats and rest all in their safe bank accounts across the globe. So they are enjoying life over the miseries, plight and dead bodies of thousands and thousands of their own countrymen.

So who’s the biggest terrorist group…SIMI, HUJI, Indian Mujahudeen or our politicians and other government officials…?

Now let’s move to environment. India enjoys a very low per capita CO2 emission of 1.67 tones/capita. But the reality is that a relatively small wealthy class of 1% of the population in the country is hiding behind a huge proportion of 823 million poor people for the CO2 emissions. In an upper-middle-class house five air-conditioners hum to the tune of eight kilowatts of power which is enough to light two villages. Their driver picks up a fifteen rupee loaf of bread by driving a 3000 cc Pajero to the local market, using up two litres of fossil fuel that took three million years to form deep below the earth crust.

Upper and middle class are not ready to reduce their CO2 emissions, and by that they are not only contributing to global warming, but also denying the hundreds of millions of poor in the country, access to development. Moreover the climate change is threatening the poor communities with economic devastation in the form of floods, droughts and ruined harvests.

Upper and middle class are earning more money to pollute the environment more. Their aspirations are giving birth to shopping malls in every corner of all the big and medium cities, which are hungry energy guzzlers and produce tones of packaging waste. They are moving from two wheelers to cars, cars to bigger cars. With more earnings their cars just get bigger and more fuel inefficient and they move further away from the concept of public transport. Metropolitan cities are given preference over villages while doing electricity load shedding so that the riches can enjoy their air conditioners and other energy hungry gadgets, when a loan ridden farmer is waiting to run his irrigation equipment.

So who’s the biggest terrorist group…SIMI, HUJI, Indian Mujahudeen, our politicians and other government officials or you and me?

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