why we must vote

What happened in Mumbai affects me as some one who has loved and hated mumbai over the years and me as an Indian.

Me...i lost some of my friends....but then i have lost some of them to drugs, stress and bad relationships...atleast i was not embarassed at these prayer meetings. There was a hope that they did something heroic for atleast a nano second before they took the bullet...atleast some i know would have atleast said F#*K you! Ofcourse i lost two of my favourite restaurants in the country to fire...but hey, i will live!

Me Indian...i felt humiliation! I have voted every time since i was 18...i have stood everytime for my national anthem...since i can remember. I felt humiliation...that a country so large that we can send stuff to moon, cannot protect our own. Or atleast not as fast as we should. It takes 9 hours for special forces to get into the act....while our poorly equipped police force takes bullets on their necks!

Someone remind me much does the Haj and Khubmh mela subsidies cost?! And these are more important than protecting our own lives?

I will still vote and i do hope you do too....if not for someone you believe in then atleast to tell all that you dont believe in anyone. By not turning up...all you say is that 'i dont care' ! That is exactly what got us here in the first place!

The home minister didnot care enough to send in the army within an hour...some demi god did not care that the NSG took 9 hours to get to the scene...Manmohan Singh did not care to lose the dead pan ...his speech writer did not care to reassure me/ us....Mr Patil in Maharashtra did not think twice through before saying this is a 'small incident'...Mr Desmukh did not care to think if its ok to take a film director along...the list goes on.

We need to turn up and vote and then we need to demand to know whats going on. When was the last time you let your maid get away with a lunch served 2 hours late....your driver bashing the car and saying it is a 'small incident' ?

We , I as Indians need to demand accountability and need to take a little time out of another beer, another match , yet another box office hit to do this.Use the RTI...it on the net to demand accountability...or use the media( they seem to be more than willing).

After feeling humiliation and anger i attended prayer meetings and got the process of transferring my Voters Id card to the city i live in now going...far from enough...please tell me you did more!