My World, My thoughts

Hi guys,

Its been a really long time since I last updated my blog .... the reason is that I`ve always had pretty much to say but no time or patience to write it down .... as a result, I simply dint post anything new ....

Well, moving ahead, MNIK released last week ... I was very excited to watch the movie for three reasons:

1) Its a Kajol-SRK starrer
2) The promos made me really curious
3) The dialogue "My name is KHAN and I am not a terrorist ..."

So finally, I watched it ... I loved the movie .... its soft, touching, the performances gave me goosebumps and it gives a very good message in most pragmatic and unbiased way ...... and its certainly not pro-Islamic .... I`m really proud of the fact that such a movie is made in a secular nation like India ....

I was really touched by certain scenes like Rizwan`s scrutiny at airport, FBI torturing him even after knowing that hez autistic, school teacher teaching Islam as the most violent religion, Rizwan`s mother teaching him about good and bad guys etc

I saw the movie on Saturday afternoon .... after coming back, while I was surfing, I came across an article about MNIK saying that Indian audience wont be able to connect with the movie bcoz watever has been shown in the movie does not really happen in India .....but its surely gonna touch people from US, UK and Middle east Asian countries ..... and the reason for this is possibly that India has not seen any 9/11 (the event which changed the way the world looks at Islam ....)

I was shocked to read this ....we may not have 9/11 but we certainly have 26/11 .... both the events happened in name of Jihad .... but, yet in India, we don't see such discrimination against Islam or, for that matter, any other religion (Cheers to our democracy and secularism !!!) .....

I think what we need to understand at this point is that Terrorism has got no religion, that it does not belong to any caste or color ..... It evolved over a period of time and it has grown up to a level that now it has got a nationality of its own .....terrorism does not belong to Afghanistan, Pakistan or India .... It itself is like a country against the rest of the world.... and we cant eliminate it simply by waging a war against a particular religion or a particular country (read Afghanistan).... on the same Saturday, Pune was attacked .... it was the first major attack after 26/11 .... and even though a German bakery was targeted, but it wasn't really targeted against Germans ... its target was entire humanity .....

and yet, whenever we think of terrorists, image of a person with long beard and cap comes in our minds .... whenever news channels are covering an attack report, they`ll show fictitious terrorists with long beard ..... it seems as if all terrorist are born in one religion only ... I am damn sure David Headingly is not a Muslim .... its sad ..really sad ... and we need much more than a simple movie to erase it from our minds, our thinking and our planet ....

We need to understand that we are MORE THAN JUST A NAME ....