Looking Back in Anger

Looking Back in Anger

Wake up! There8217;s a war out there. Did you know? Did you care? Now that India is out of the World Cup, will you notice?

I am angry at Vajpayee8217;s sheer naiveity. There he was in Lahore, waving with a limp wrist from a bus window, when the Pakistan army was ordering 50,000 pairs of snowshoes from Switzerland.

I am angry that the families of Jawans get just Rs two lakh as compensation. We all know what our cricketers get.

Suddenly I am angry at everything. I am mad at flyovers built at the cost of crores that go nowhere. I am mad at the fact that despite all the funds and hype given to Project Tiger, we suddenly are discovering that we have dangerously few left. I am mad that a woman has to watch four of her children die of starvation. I am mad that over 40 per cent of our elected representatives have criminal records. I am mad at the failure of intelligence8217; that allowed a Kargil to happen. Oh, and you won8217;t believe how absolutely furious I am that Sonia might actually bethrust upon us as Prime Minister.