I liked Obama's speech, most people who saw me getting excited about the speech were shocked and some even accused me of worshiping anything that comes from west. The gravest problem with the new India and my countrymen is lack of true heroes. We have created heroes out of thugs and goons who have gone onto disappoint us all the time. People from the independence era are long gone. Slowly, through historical distortions and unreal ideas about history we have even managed to create doubts on their personalities to make them more of villains than heroes. So what are we left with? Wrong heroes!
Watching Sanjay Dutt on NDTV rallying for Samajwadi Party infront of hundreds of ‘laal topi junta’ cheering him makes a good case for my concerns. Further, our media doesn't forget to mention that Dutt '…got the crowd mesmerized with munnabhai and gandhigiri antics.' Do our media and our judiciary absolve dutt of all crimes listed against him under TADA and POTA just by playing Munnabhai in one of the movies made of Gandhi?
We are living among wrong heroes!
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