After almost 10 years, 2 wars, many many lives, billions of dollars and a plethora of political drama, Mr. Osama is finally dead. Was the life of one person worth such investment? Well, I won’t discuss this shit here, who am I to make this decision, let the media and the leaders fight over this issue. I would just try to describe the situation from a common man’s perspective or rather from my perspective, the changes I have observed since yesterday. As I have been ill since yesterday and haven’t gone out, so all the news I have got is through TV (Idiot box as they call it), radio (yes, I listen to it sometimes), Internet (I am always online here) and a few telephonic conversations with my friends.
Ohk, so the first question which pop up in a lay person's mind is, so am I any safer now? No silly, certainly not. Though America might picturize the whole situation as if they have uprooted terrorism, it’s completely fake. First, I heavily doubt if a 54 year old man in deteriorated-health conditions and nowhere to go would be involved in planning any terror attacks. Second, instead of mitigating terrorist activities, this incident might have just sent vibes of vengeance among the terrorist groups. This doesn’t mean that I oppose Osama’s death, but the reality is that it might just result into sudden rage among terrorists. Anyways, “My name is Vijit, and I am not a terrorist”, so am not sure how they would respond, but yes I am certain that they won’t get any terrified (though I wish they should).
Anyways, so I was notified of the incident early morning through the radio tuned to 98.3. My reaction as I was trying to brush my teeth, pressurising open my brain, “Oh yeah, Osama, oh was he still alive?? so he is dead...hmm... but does that mean today is a national holiday?? no. then I need still need to go to college.” When I came to some senses, the first question I thought of was how did they confirm it was him, there were so many cloned-Obamas running around, how was the confirmation made. Later, I read somewhere or someone told me (I couldn’t recall- thanks to the medicines), that they did made the DNA testing for the confirmation. Still I coudn’t buy this reason, primarily because when did they catch him earlier to get his DNA at the first place. Also, I guess they have buried him in some sea/river soon after his death, so is DNA testing such a fast process, I am not aware of it and I don’t even plan to research into it.
The funny incident took place in the evening, when I called one of my friend and he wished me “Congrats”. I got excited and started wondering, what have I done which I am even not aware of. All my excitment was brought down to shackles, when he told the wishes were related to DEAD Mr. Osama. “Fuck You”, I already knew this, you pumped up an ill person for no reason. Anyways, in the night I called another of my friend, and thinking wishing on Osama’s death is the trend of the day, as soon as he picked up the phone, I wished him “Congrats”. Though he didn’t get much excited, but I became very furious when he said, “Who is Osama??” WTF man, is there anyone around who doesn’t know Sir Osama. People might not know who our President is, but everyone knows Osama here, but this dude was different. Anyways, after making much efforts to make him recall about 9/11 and stuff, he finally recalled who Mr. Osama was (10 years, duh !!!).
Ohk, so the first question which pop up in a lay person's mind is, so am I any safer now? No silly, certainly not. Though America might picturize the whole situation as if they have uprooted terrorism, it’s completely fake. First, I heavily doubt if a 54 year old man in deteriorated-health conditions and nowhere to go would be involved in planning any terror attacks. Second, instead of mitigating terrorist activities, this incident might have just sent vibes of vengeance among the terrorist groups. This doesn’t mean that I oppose Osama’s death, but the reality is that it might just result into sudden rage among terrorists. Anyways, “My name is Vijit, and I am not a terrorist”, so am not sure how they would respond, but yes I am certain that they won’t get any terrified (though I wish they should).
Anyways, so I was notified of the incident early morning through the radio tuned to 98.3. My reaction as I was trying to brush my teeth, pressurising open my brain, “Oh yeah, Osama, oh was he still alive?? so he is dead...hmm... but does that mean today is a national holiday?? no. then I need still need to go to college.” When I came to some senses, the first question I thought of was how did they confirm it was him, there were so many cloned-Obamas running around, how was the confirmation made. Later, I read somewhere or someone told me (I couldn’t recall- thanks to the medicines), that they did made the DNA testing for the confirmation. Still I coudn’t buy this reason, primarily because when did they catch him earlier to get his DNA at the first place. Also, I guess they have buried him in some sea/river soon after his death, so is DNA testing such a fast process, I am not aware of it and I don’t even plan to research into it.
The funny incident took place in the evening, when I called one of my friend and he wished me “Congrats”. I got excited and started wondering, what have I done which I am even not aware of. All my excitment was brought down to shackles, when he told the wishes were related to DEAD Mr. Osama. “Fuck You”, I already knew this, you pumped up an ill person for no reason. Anyways, in the night I called another of my friend, and thinking wishing on Osama’s death is the trend of the day, as soon as he picked up the phone, I wished him “Congrats”. Though he didn’t get much excited, but I became very furious when he said, “Who is Osama??” WTF man, is there anyone around who doesn’t know Sir Osama. People might not know who our President is, but everyone knows Osama here, but this dude was different. Anyways, after making much efforts to make him recall about 9/11 and stuff, he finally recalled who Mr. Osama was (10 years, duh !!!).
That was my outlook, now let us see how the world is perceiving the whole incident. Well, first of all its gold raining for news channels, they are making the most of this incident. “The Royal Wedding” has now been replaced by “The Royal Death”. Channels are busy in making their own pathetic stories showing how Osama was killed, where was he killed, what was he doing when they killed him, what bed he used to sleep on, which medicines he used to eat, which company sleepers he used to wear. I wonder if the US forces had called the channels to shoot this all up before they started the mission. And channels like IndiaTV, the way they show their news, I wonder if someday I would end up breaking my TV set.
Well, similar are the situation in the political world as well. They have got the chance to play their favorite game, “The Blame Game”. Pakistan is busy trying to prove that they were not aware of Osama’s residence in Pakistan and that the whole incident was unofficial and unethical (how does that matter thought??). US is busy showing that they finished this operation all alone with no help from any other country. Also, this would certainly boost up Mr. Obama’s chance of coming back to power in the next term. He surely must be very excited (One of the post related to Obama’s excitement I found on Internet, “I would have been terrified had I been Ms. Michelle Obama’s *****” .India I believe is not very sure about its response. Mr. Singh must be wondering if he should wish Pakistan officials or not. Probably, Ms. Gandhi might help him take some decision. And I am waiting for the opposition to put some allegations on the UPA government, though I wonder what it would be, but opposition leaders are sharp, let there be happen any incident around the world, and they would make up a very apt allegation against the government and then this ultimately result into a halted session (well I would discuss Indian government sometime later).
Osama has died. But his death has surely left many unanswered questions behind him. Many days of crispy news material, media has found. And countries and politicians have found a lot to fight over. For me, I have got my software engineering assignment to finish for tomorrow, so I would rest my post here.
PS- 1) I haven’t read today’s newspaper which I should have read before writing this post.
2) I haven’t re-read the post since I have stuff to finish before sleep. So, I am not very sure what exactly have I written. Please ignore any mistakes. And the formatting sucks as well.
3) I am not drunk.
Disclaimer- I didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s sentiments through this post. If someone is too emotional about the 9/11 or Osama’s death and find my post to be oppressive or abusive, then I heartily apologize.
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ReplyDeletethanx for all the info vijit.. ihardlt had any idea what was going around.. did u hear that the pictures that they revealed of the dead osama were fake though??
ReplyDelete@deepank sir: thanks, good to hear that from you :)
ReplyDelete@tommy: yup, I know that the pictures on fb are fake. thanks to some stupid API such spam-bots keep on coming every few days. probably I would write something on them soon.