I am ashamed to be an Indian

ONCE AGAIN MY HEAD BOWS DOWN IN SHAME http://www.kavitanjali.com/pgfeb02/onceagain.htm

Oh! once again my head bows down in shame,
Eyes shudder to open to horrendous barbaric strains,
Ears plead to deafen out those agonizing wails,
Is that humanity being snuffed out by the humanity gone astray.

Why was I not born a bird or an animal tame,
Why not an unselfish flower or a river untame,
Why couldn’t my being help enlighten lives,
Why couldn’t my kind enthuse joy in place of cries,

How could fathers, brothers, sons be perpetrators of such heinous
barbarism,
Killers, murderers, looters ,plunderers, maligning all that was
humanism,
Torching, maiming ,killing, deriving sadistic pleasures from
Satanism,
Followers of God’s chosen path, calling themselves Hindus and Muslims,

Forgetting they are the Lord’s best creation indulge in all that
is bestial,
Oh! to be a bird or an animal tame…

Once again my head bows down in shame…

~Sonali SC~

For the first time in 10 years, I am ashamed to be an Indian. And I don’t mean in terms of what other people think of us. But because of the fact that 500 people died and our impotent leaders could do nothing.

The PM makes a statement saying this was a blot on our country. Fine, but what does he plan to do about it?

Three years ago, I had a lot of hope from his party, in spite of the Babri Masjid demolition. But today, I am ashamed of the fact that I voted for this party. They still can’t get us a solution to the whole Ram Mandir issue.

Why is building a temple so bad? Hinduism is turning out to be a more maligned religion than Islam. We too have our Hindu fundamentalists.

Three months ago, I wrote to an MSNBC correspondent complaining that all international news agencies call the BJP a “Hindu nationalist party”. Today I know why they are called that.

We call ourselves an emerging superpower. New Delhi can’t even control its own party members, when are they going to get time to control one billion people?

The Seed Of Violence

Cries of anger and of pain
As images of a burning train
Like a branding iron hot
Seared hatred in the brain

A burning woman, sari aflame
Clutching her child without a name
Mouth open in horror and fear
For her death whom do you blame?

Burning embers far and wide
Carried forward on hatred's tide
Setting afire innocent homes
For those inside, no place to hide

Other women in different garb
Impaled on vengeance's barb
Mouth open in horror and fear
No protection far and near

An innocent life taken in vain
Cannot innocent life avenge
While culprits hide like cowards
This is barbarism and not revenge

Wild fire now burns the land
Flames that boil the blood
A torch now in a brainless hand
Who'll stem this vengeful flood?

Politics the hot whirlwind
Emanating from barren souls
Laying waste a land of peace
Now inhabited by vengeful ghouls

Can't you see it all you fools
'Tis what our enemies seek
That we hate and kill each other
And burning bodies reek

Stop this now, stop it please
Do not vengeance breed
For somewhere in a quaking soul
It plants a violent seed

The cycle will never end
Like weed upon this soil
Destroy the very garden
We have built with our toil.

~Siddharth Sanyal~

ME TOO ASHAMED OF BEING INDIAN!!!!

guys

I know how you feel, but it should not be shame but concern and a will to change things so events like this dont take place.

I have been there too, mixed feelings, sadness, loathing, despare.

But dont be ashamed of your country or your identity, be concerned with the issues there and do something about it. Shame does not solve problems, action does.

and this is not true for just Indians, but for any nation, for any group which has black sheep among it.

durango

It's good to see people like you around who give, at the very least, a thought to what has happened and in some way feel guilty for it. We need people who are willing to put whatever has happened in history behind us and to start living like civilized human beings.

As Fraudz said, don't feel ashamed but do something that could in some way help remedy the situation. One person alone can't make a drastic change, but to even attempt to do something will give you the satisfaction that you've at the very least tried.

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Originally posted by ~Sehar~:
**durango

It's good to see people like you around who give, at the very least, a thought to what has happened and in some way feel guilty for it. We need people who are willing to put whatever has happened in history behind us and to start living like civilized human beings.

As Fraudz said, don't feel ashamed but do something that could in some way help remedy the situation. One person alone can't make a drastic change, but to even attempt to do something will give you the satisfaction that you've at the very least tried. **
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Well Said sehar ... i agree ...


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Even If You Are Basically Stupid
You Can Still Meet Nice People !

India is a country that fought so hard for it's freedom only to lose it again...
I hate it..I hate it when one nation looks down on another, when one caste looks down on another...it happens all over the world... but when it happens in your own country you feel personally responsible.
When people come up to you and say to you.."Ohh you know what India did...or do you know what happened in India"...
You have to bow your head in shame!

I'm an Indian...I say it... but never with pride..


May The Madness Be Upon You!!!

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I'm an Indian and I'm not ashamed of being Indian or of who I am. I am distraught by what is happening there. I have nothing to do with the violence there, in fact I have several things on many levels for the betterment of India. My actions alone stand for me, and that is all I can control.

Hey Durango-

Is that poem 'Seed of Violence' your's? I'm the editor for the youth section for a Indian publication and I thought that it would be a nice thing to publish it, to express this event.

Lemmme know.

No,The peom is from the following website.
http://www.kavitanjali.com/index.html

I think you could publish it with the poet’s name. I guess !!