washing the dishes and taking out the trash November 29th, 2008
So usually we have a bai who comes home, twice a day. She comes every morning around 7:45 a.m.
She starts by bringing in the clothes from the clothesline. Then she turns off my fan (very annoying, if I’m still in bed — she loves traumatizing me, I sometimes refer to her as the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal) and then heads on to the kitchen, where she does the dishes. Then she starts dusting around the house, sweeps and swobs, and takes out the trash. She finishes her work in about an hour and a half.
She comes again in the evening, to do the dishes once again; and then the routine begins again.
The point is, we aren’t really cleanliness freaks. We like a clean house, and so it’s a routine that we follow, (claims of labor rights and payment aside. I dunno what we pay her, but I assume we don’t scrimp on it.) and the house is pretty well maintained.
So when I hear the Pakistan foreign minister saying that he would like to see proof of the involvement of Lashkar or any other terrorist organization within their boundaries, before taking action against them, it ticks me off.
You don’t need your neighbor coming on over, knocking on your door, and telling you that there’s a right nasty stench emanating from your home, (coming in under his door and through his window, and he knows this for sure because the forensic guy he called to investigate said so) before you take out the trash, do you?
It can’t be all that hard to turn off Animal Planet, or whatever TV you’re watching, put the kebabs and faux Coke or whatever down on the table for a minute, get your ass up, and take out the trash, can it?
Same goes for the Indian Government, and the issues we’ve got in-house. I mean, stop finding reasons things CAN’T BE DONE. Impossible is only the lack of imagination, incentive, and most importantly, intent.
The Challenge of Terrorism?
Organized Crime?
Education?
Vaccination of kids?
Basic Provision of Food, Clothes and Shelter to each Citizen?
Protection of the Human Rights of Citizens?
Prevention of Violence and Crime?
Development of Infrastructure?
Promotion of a Diverse, Progressive Society?
Does any government actually have to be TOLD to do this? Doesn’t it come as a part of the job description? Does the Indian Government have to have it’s ATS chief assassinated before it figures it should invest in giving the police proper bulletproof vests? Does the Pakistani Government need proof of the actions of what it acknowledges is a terrorist organization, before it takes action against it? Shouldn’t acknowledgment of the nature of the organization be enough?
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Posted in Opinion, Politics/Ideas, reflections | Comments (3)
November 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
If only our neighbors learned
an interesting quote from a government press conf.
RR Patil (Home Minister, Maharashtra)
Aise Haadse Bade Shaharon mein hote rehte hai.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i guess he was watching DDLJ while the NSG was sanitizing the TAJ and Oberoi.
Bade Bade Deshon Mein, Aisi Choti Choti Baatein Hoti Rahti Hain. Shahrukh Khan would be ashamed, etc~
November 30th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Yes it is true that these neighbours of ours, all not just Pakistan, know they can take us for a ride. We have to deal with one spineless government after the other. While the BJP is concentrating its energies on mud-slinging pretending they could have done a better job, Manmohan Singh (a man I had great respect for) is indulging in thoroughly robotic speeches with a complete lack of actual pro-active action!
The state of affairs is as appalling as it was during the time of Kandahar and even before during the ’92 riots.
If they don’t have the courage to drag Bal Thackeray and his men to court, or deal with a bully in the facade of a true blue Marathi manoos (or as Vir Sanghvi rightly put it: Marathi mouse), dealing with terrorist mother, Pakistan, is just a distant hope. As the politics increases, the circumference of hope reduces with every passing second.