My mother always says......"a couple of rotten apples, if not removed, can lead to the rottening of the whole fruit basket..." Many instances show us that numerous 'good' often bear the brunt of a few 'bads'......the detention of SRK at Newark airport..... is just another example.....the scenario of present world leads us to be skeptical about our security based on a certain religion or a last name etc......what a pain!!! SRK is not the only one......many high profile personalities went through the same which included our ex-president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. We are slightly being hypocrite in raising a big issue over SRK's detention.....what about the numerous other common people who faces the same thing as because they have a particular religious belief and names?? The security personnels are only performing their duties c'mon......they are hired for that and of course 2 hours of a celebrity cross-questioning is nothing when it comes to the security of a million lives. The irony lies in the fact that persons with a particular name or religious preference is being subjected to this every time. The security concerns are getting pseudonyms of racial/religious profiling. That is the case of the rotten apples of my mom!!! :)
Otherwise the celebrity factor for which it is getting such hype is because of our natural infatuation with the VIPs and VVIPs......we ignore the 'aam-janta' suffering everyday but as our beloved Shah Rukh Khan is questioned, we are infuriated more than the King Khan himself. Our tendency of being soft on the dignitaries of different realm doesn't stop top-level corruption and malpractices.......ministers and known faces are always in the news for all the wrong reasons......so why give them so much 'bhaw'?? Equality before the law should be followed to the marrow and practised as well in our country..before aping the fashion and culture of the western countries, we should practice the discipline of those nations.....their indifference to who you are when it comes to duty and responsibility......
Sinners are not so because of their names and religion, true.....but reality is otherwise......today terror is tagged.....so our patience and co-operation is needed (without the hang-ups) to wipe out this discrimination as soon as possible...... we should react to and prevent the mishaps and incidents of terrorism and loss of human lives, however stringent that needs the system to be....so that innocents are not subjected to embarrasment in near future...
Whatever......Love you, SRK... :)
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