Death and the farce

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan died in the line of duty. He died fighting for his country. He died fighting against terrorists’ who had attacked Mumbai. He died trying to save a colleague. He died a hero.
Then his death was turned into a circus, a farce and a joke that divided people along party lines. His supreme sacrifice was forgotten, all every one remembers now is his screaming father screaming at the Chief Minister of Kerala, telling him to “Get out, Get out of my house.” The father preferred to score points before he had even laid his son to rest. He looked for news op when he should have been grieving. Or maybe he had listened to too much of divisive talk from nosy silly people and media who were looking to score points from this unfortunate death.
The Chief Minister V.S Achuthananthan was wrong to make the “Dog” comment he made but he was pushed to do so by relentless bullying by the media, especially biased congress mouthpieces by Manorama. He was also shaken by the harsh and rude behavior of Mr. Unnikrishnan. Would Mr. Unnikrishnan have reacted the same way if Sonia Gandhi had come to visit him a day after the funeral? Of course she has not visited yet. So it was, probably, not the timing of the visit that was the problem, it was the media opinions that he had been reading that led to the mess.
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan never thought of the honor he would get, never about the visits he would be paid by dignitaries at his funeral. He just did what he thought was his duty and the rest of was turned his death into a spectacle.

Yesterday I watched the movie The Queen. The reviews that I remember of the movie talked about Elizabeth I coming across as a great monarch and PM Blair as a wimp. I thought the opposite was true. Blair actually seemed to been able to drum some sense into cold and frivolous lives led by the royals. Through out the movie the queen talks about her duty to her country and all the duty we see her doing is her and her silly pompous consort hunting down stags in Scotland. “Do you think I will leave my grandsons who have just lost their mother, and come down to London, because….?” was a question she asked, but throughout the movie we don’t get to see her comforting or even talking to the two boys at all. All we see is her hunting and more hunting and more hunting. Well they really work hard at that. Cherie Blair came out as a strong willed woman and republican at that.