The news of a Major from Thane shot dead in an encounter with militants had me all edgy...One of my School Classmates, Also from Thane(and a Major posted somewhere in Kashmir) was also there...and i was really concerned..I was fliiping the news channels all around but was dissappointed that no more than a ticker was dedicated to this news Vs. the masala Crap dished out by the "Soap opera"-News Channels!!
At last I found that it was not him but one Maj.Manish Pitambare who had given the Supreme sacrifice!! Not that it mattered now..Some Family had still lost the Apple of their Eyes...Someone like me...would have been anxious to know about his friends' well being-he might not heard what he wanted to!!...but what ticked me off was the apathy and the absolute disregard to what makes NEWS!!!
The body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag ,
was
cremated with full military honours at Thane on Wednesday
On Tuesday a news swept across all the news channels 'Sanjay Datt
relieved
by the court'. 'Sirf Munna Not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam'
'alhough found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay can breath
sigh of
relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn'
And then many experts like Salman khan saying 'He is a good person.
In
other news, Parliament was mad at Indian team for performing bad;
Greg
chapel said something .....; Bomb scare in gorakhpoor express; and
Shah
Rukh Khan replaces Big B in KBC and Sonia asked PM to consider
reducing
petroleum prices. But most of the emphasis was given on Sanjay
Datt's
"phoenix like" comeback from the ashes of terrorist charges.
Surfing through the channels, one news on BBC
startled me,
it read, Hisbul Mujahidin's Most wanted terrorist 'Sohel Faisal'
killed in
anantnag, India. Indian Major leading the operation lost his life
in the
process. Four others are injured.
It was past midnight, I started visiting the Indian
channels,
the ones who are 'Sabse TEZ', but Sanjubaba was still ruling. They
were
telling How Sanjubaba pleaded to the court saying 'I am the sole
bread
earner for my family' 'I have a daughter who is studying in US who
will
look after her'. And then they showed how sanjubaba was not wearing
his
lucky blue shirt while he was hearing the verdict. Also how he went
to
every temple and prayed for last some months. A suspect in Mumbai
bomb
blasts, convicted under armory act.....was being made into a hero.
Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his
sources
about the terrorists' whereabouts. Wasting no time he attacked the
camp
killed the Hisbul mujahidin's suprimo and in the process lost his
life..... To the bullets fired from an AK47......
He has a wife and a daughter (just like sanjubaba), age .....18
months.
Major Manish never said 'I have a daughter' ...before he took the
decision
to attack the terrorist hide out in the darkest of nights?
He never thought about having a family and he being the bread
earner
No news channel covered this since they were too busy hyping a
former drug
addict, an actor in real and reel life, a suspect who's linked to
bomb
blasts which killed hundreds. Their aim was to show how he defied
the TADA
charges and they were so successful that his conviction in
possession of
armory had no meaning. They also concluded that his parents in
heaven must
be happy and proud of him......
Parents of Major Pitambare are still on this earth and
they
have to live rest of their lives without their beloved son. His
daughter
won't ever see her papa again.
Definition of a Star has changed Major... it really
has. So
sanjubaba always has a gun in every one of his movies then in real
life if
he has an AK47 then what's the big deal we are used to see him with
some
ammunition without it he's just a 49yr old hero so he did it for
us.....so
that we feel normal;
Even if one of the bullets from one of such AK47's took a Real
Star's life
.......
Finally , to my generation there is no greater hero than one who
laid
his life in the name of this great nation. Hence Sir, I salute you.
You are the real Star, Jai Hind.
