I dont get the fuss!

I mean yes Jessical Lal was murdered and no, the killer is likely not to get punished. But I want to be optimistic. Like most crimes in the country, here too the criminal is mostly going to get away with the crime. It does not bother me that he committed the crime in front of so many people and still there are no 'witnesses' or that its such an obvious case of miscarriage of justice. Just because it has now become a cause to be celebrated, her case is being fought over and for.

It bothers me as to why is her cause is worth worth fighting over (rightly so, I agree) but what about all those other miscarriages that happen every single day. Those nameless people who get trampled on by cars, while asleep on pavements or those who die due to adulterated food stuff or those who get killed by so-called terrorists - aren't their causes worth fighting for? Don't witnesses turn hostile there? Don't their killer walk around free, boasting of powerful names in the government backing them? Why is no one fighting for their cause? No marches? No candles? No police filing fresh cases? Nobody knows what happened to the orginal case in the first place.

What about Godhra? Another recent horrific real life catastrophe, worse than any thing your own imagination could churn out. Spoiling generations for years to come, tarnishing memories. The state machinery went ahead and participated with politicians for personal vendettas and nobody in cities came out for the cause of those people. It bothers me that though our assembly adjourns over this issue still without reaching a consensus and the whole cause of something as horrific as Godhra is called 'accidental' and not one person wants to light a candle for the children and women who died in the cross fire in these power games. Why? Aren't their multiple lives as, if not more, important than the likes of Jessica, to fight for? To remember why they died? To bring to justice such power-hungry-and-will-stop-at-nothing politicians?

Marches are fashionable as we know and even Jessica's (as I hear from people who participated) was all about "how much coverage did we receive" or "which press channel covered me the most?" "Did you see me?" I was appalled, again. Doesn't anyone really care abot justice anymore? Accused (not all guilty mind you) from the 1992-93 Mumbai riots case are still recieving their sentences. Godhra has become a blame game between witnesses, activists, accused, victims, politicians in power, politicians out of power... leave alone when will the accused get punished? I mean Narendra Modi still roams around like he has done nothing wrong so going by the fame versus blame scale, he will probably never the other side of a prison...

And here everyone gets ready to resurrect Jessica.