Wednesday, September 28, 2005
What is this bus service crap ya? Every six months India and Pakistan talk about this bus service, and the Road To Peace. It's just so disgusting. The same crap all the time.
I am in no mood to research this done-to-death topic, but as far as I can remember I have heard of this dumb f* bus service ever since I set foot in journalism five years ago. It starts, it stops, it starts again, it stops again.
And every time a delegation from either of the two countries visits the the losers across the fence they talk about the same thing.
Why can't the Indian media just boycott this damn subject????
Again the bus service will start, again news agencies, morning dailies, and news channels will send their reporters to cover the scene. Again there will be some Randeep Singh or Suhail Khan and their wives being interviewed about how happy they are about visiting the other side, and talking about how similar the two countries are and how amazing it is to have this bus service. Some crying, some giggling... same old shit.
Again there will be some relative of Musharraf's sitting on that stupid bus visiting Darya Ganj, where he apaprently grew up or somein like that. Again the Indian cub reporters will ask the same screwed up questions...
I mean come on. Either start, and let it go on, or just stop talking crap. Screw it. Politicians will never stop with this. The Indian media should stand up and take a stand man. That's it.
It is a fact that there can be absolutely no peace between India and Pakistan until the Kashmir issue is resolved. No bus service, no stupid talks that they keep holding will change anything until Kashmir is under attack.
And the Kashmir issue will NEVER be resolved. Never. If it is, the politicians will have nothing to talk about. The "Kashmir Promise" is the greatest vote bank for politicians from both sides. If the issue doesn't exist, they got nothing to talk about.
Likewise, this stupid bus service... it's nothing but a vote bank.
Trust me, right now when I read the headline, India, Pakistan to have Amritsar-Lahore bus service, I felt nauseous, literally.
Disclaimer: I have been reading some self-confessed 'respectable bloggers' talking about how the new bloggers post 'uninformed thoughts' and have turned the blogosphere into a diary system of sorts. Those are the people, who can't think, talk or write beyond what they read in the morning newspapers. Compulsive Journalists is what I call them. And I think they should really take their crappy facts and shove them up their A*&Ses. Coz this blog doesn't need no facts. It's about ME. What I feel about things. All those who don't like it, can go take a walk.

4 Comments:
I agree. There is unnecessary media coverage for the issue, without anything being resolved. The other day, there was a BBC talkshow regarding Indo-Pak relations. Shabana Azmi, and Imran Khan, were respectively proposing the use of films and cricket to resolve the issue!! I mean, are they naive or what??
just back from a brief visit to India and an even briefer one through Pakistan. Not knowing much abt the politics apart from the the basics... the thing that amazed me the most was the harmony and accpetance of the people towards religion, ie from hindu to islam.. very heartwarming..So once again all blame goes to the politicians.
Yeah when I heard it I was like "didn't that happen already? Are they doing it again? Why did it fail the last time?"
Kashmir is a new-born Jerusalem. Indians and Pakistanis are damned to fight over it till the end of time. It is shameful and there is not a goddamn thing we can do about it.
As for me, I am just pissed off that I don't get to visit the most beautiful place in my own country.
nahi hua mera. they've said thank you but no thank you.
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