Monday 5 October 2009

The Brave One and The Unbrave

It is indeed unfortunate that my first official blog is about a dead man. This man died yesterday, on 5th Oct, 09 while performing his duty inside the bank. Mr. Muhammad Siddque, a guard at MCB's Samanabad branch was performing a routine check of a guy entering the building, when he was shot dead. This guy was a dacoit who entered the bank with the intentions of looting it. Thought why he killed the poor guard, I fail to comprehend. He could have easily knocked him down or punched him and taken the CSO standing next to the guard as a hostage. Despite the unlimited numbers of imaginable scenarios, the guard's life will not be brought back. Neither will be that of the dacoit, who was shot in the head while leaving the bank by another guard.

Ironically, both the men who died in this incidence came from poor family. The bank's money was insured, so even if the guard wasn't killed and the guy took the money with him, the bank wouldn't have lost much. Technically speaking, the bank didn't lose much even now. The guard was hired through an agency, so he will be easily replaced. Some compensation shall be made for his family. The dead dacoit was a bad guy, who killed the innocent guard; hence, it is good that he is dead. No one even knows his name.

Followup news items will be covering the details about guard's family. His widow crying, his children suffering and tormented. The TV channels will capitalize upon another chance of covering the ‘human side’ of the story and broadcast interviews with the deceased’ loved ones. The dacoit would be left dead. His intentions for looting the bank will not be dug deep into. That is not how the media works. The media does not highlight why the terrorists came into being, it only covers what it that the terrorist are doing is. It wonders why are the terrorist not being captured and applauds when the terrorists are killed. However, it ignores the fact that the terrorism keeps on getting evolved.

I keep wondering why we blame the dacoit in all of such incidents. Why do we not pin-point the factors that cause his evolution into thud and strive to curb it? Is that not the right way to go by it? The childhood fairytale of good and bad continues. Who cares about the stakeholders that select the perception of ‘good’ and ‘bad’? Who worries about the makers of the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’? We all need more fairytales to get entertained...

1 comment:

  1. if we start probing into facts, it unveils our own faces and none wants it. so the apparent good remains good and the bad, bad.

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