I do not understand these utterly fragile sensibilities of some of us or rather most of us, which seem to rattle so often.

Isn’t immature to expect fawning praise should only to be bestowed on so many of our great personalities?

Should there be any attempt allowed to write about their supposed short comings and bad judgments or not?

We seem to add new gods to be worshipped so eagerly and don’t want new questions, any critical appraisals, rightly or wrongly?

I am sorry to have reacted rather strongly, because to me it reeks of limited vision and lack of respect for divergent views.

He writes what thinks, and he is not a politician to bother about vote banks before picking up his pen.

The country and society which refuses to listen to severe criticism, right or wrong is not growing enough.

It is an area of darkness which is crying for a sun to expose some stinking garbage and decay.

Who are these people who have so brittle sensibilities?

Have a look a close look around and we will find an army of upstart small time political hanger-on’s  ready to pounce on any opportunities to create trouble; raveling in their own 20 seconds of fame on news hungry channels.

These are hoodlums on waiting for a political anointment and a life long career of deceit.

Whatever are the provocations, big or small they gang to show their muscle power and general disorder, discomfiture to public.

They stage bunds, road blocks, set public and private property on fire and watch gleefully as more or less their arrival is noticed by the media.

They may be supporting tilaks, beards or special head gears to announce their sect or religion, which they have made so fragile to be humbled by just any one, any incident small or big, any where in the world.

All this halla gulla compels media to hold lame debates and discussions and some of these worthies spew venom, threaten blood sheds.

We sit and watch on horror as grievously ill patents race to medical centre, meetings, interviews, jobs, engagements, functions and those rare outings go up in smoke.

Crafty businessmen and traders move goods from shops and warehouses fill in rags and pay criminals to set fire to their own establishments, they make millions.

It is established beyond any reasonable doubts that we are enraged by such and such statement, poster, and desecration hence some thing must be done.

Banishing of a book, stoning of a writer, tearing away those blasphemous paintings, preventing a movie release is instantly justified.

And the so called civil society has achieved one more mile stone by punishing freedom of speech.

However our sensibilities are not enraged by all around criminality, deceit, corruption, theft and misuse of public money.

The guardians of our sensibilities are not bothered to touch these long standing problems and they aim their guns only for items of high dramatic value and their own instant enhancements.