The Part of me which says - "I love my country"

Just saw … in fact witnessed … the episode 7 - season 1 of the T.V. series “The Newsroom” (I want to call it an EPIC, but will try and control the exaggerated dramatic emotions I am going through). The Episode is related to the operation which killed the master mind of the attach of 9/11, this statement reflects how unsafe and tense we have created our internet that I still fear to name the guy because I feel that some cops would come and arrest me on some charges of creating havoc.

The episode starts with a funny note, which is rare in this T.V. series. The “fun” I see is wrapped in sarcasm on this T.V. series and I feel proud that I understand most of it after watching the episode twice or thrice. The episode, yes it starts with a funny note and then by the end of it has definitely made my spine shiver.

But I didn’t decide to articulate this particular discussion I was having with my mind roughly since 30 minutes to praise the T.V. series “The Newsroom”. This note is something I wanted to share as a citizen of India. 

This episode of “The Newsroom” tries to show the vulnerability and the grief of the people of America when they recall 9/11. For me, it tries and portrait how the knees of each and every American even today bend when they talk about 9/11. And this for me exhibits a great strength of unity and a strong sense of all the people of America having something in common, though it’s too brutal and sad.

We as an Indian have faced too much, attack of 26/11, attack on parliament and much much more. But I as an Indian feel that we just are spectators watching a horror movie when we think about these attacks. I am never connected to people using these brutal attacks as a medium. We just discuss it as a story. 

I thank Mr. Ram Gopal Verma to make a movie on 9/11 which doesn’t show heroic nature of any protagonist but shows the helplessness of the common police guy who sits right in the middle of the pool of blood. The grief and the sadness is a strong binding agent. This episode of “The NewsRoom” tell me that it’s time to consider India as an individual/individuals whom you dream to be with for the rest of our lives since you had a life, rather than considering India as something too great and distant to connect to. 

India is the sister with whom you have fought since childhood and still find her the safest person to share the deep down secrets. India is a mom whom you scold, don’t answer, consider as a person who won’t understand your generation, and still believe in her opinions/decisions blindly for topics as small as buying a jacket to topics as big as deciding the girl of your life. India is a friend whom you chose to be in your life at the cost of letting go other people who too were in the race of being your friend.

India is very close to you, it’s not an entity residing in Delhi and Mumbai. It’s with you like your sister, Mom and friend. And when something goes wrong with your Sister, you feel sad and you are on a mission to eradicate the entity which made things go wrong for her. Eradicate the entity in the manner which will make her feel satisfied and in turn makes you feel satisfied. We have a moral responsibility NOT to let the grief die down, the grief that something went wrong to an thing close to you and you couldn’t control that. This grief is the driving force to make things better for that person in pain and this should be made clear that India is one of those entities close to you and not some third party company whose shares if go down will just be news to you, no sir!

Just see the episode 7 of “The Newsroom” season 1, the joy on the faces of Americans was clearly noticeable. The fellow Americans killed the person responsible to kill the fellow Americans. The grief was common and so was the happiness for all, be it the 2^nd most viewed television anchor or be it an air hostess. Well I know it’s just a fiction, a drama, but I think fiction is something which makes me believe that life eventually will be good if we follow the ideal characters of a fiction. 

Also here “killing” the person responsible is not the source of happiness, the T.V. series depicts very clearly that it’s the successful execution of a decision made by a nation, which in turn are the people, is the core reason of the happiness. If the decision would have been to capture the person responsible for the massacre and send to prison, I strongly believe that the joy wouldn’t have been less. 

Here the point to be induced like the DNA is this fiction drama tried to communicate that each and every person considered the grief as their own. And when the entity responsible for that grief was booked, they felt a rare combination of joy and sadness, all of them. Here “all of them” is the thing which is important.

I just hope that our media, using media I am including the movie, T.V. and the news fraternity, just consider this as their moral responsibility to strongly induce this feeling in our minds. Why the media? Because they form the face of India for we Indians. They need to induce the feeling that India is something you are, and India needs all of you to make "India" bigger. With this it should also clearly make us understand that though we are responsible to make India great, India is not so vulnerable that we can break it. We DON’T have the power to break or ruin something so big. We just owe too much to this name and so it’s not just a moral choice that our deeds should be in favor of the Nation, but it’s our moral accountability. THIS is the only possible way to pay back a bit in return of the honor and privilege we have been given to call ourselves Indians.

I am not saying to go out and kill everybody who according to you is harming the nations. We cant do this because of 2 basic reasons: First that its "according to you" that someone is doing something wrong and we can make a decision on the basis of personal thought process and Second, we have some jurisdictions and we need to abide by that. All I am saying is  We have a moral responsibility NOT to let the grief die down.