Where is the Love?

"I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people get colder
Most of us only care about money makin
Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema"

- Where is the love? Black eyed Peas

Words from one of my favorite songs that I was working on constantly over the past few days. Words that became real as blasts hit Mumbai. Where is the Love?Its sad but its true that such things should happen. Its even sadder the way they get reported. May be we were better without media , then with it ,on such days. How strange that when such things happen the remote control seems like funny device with a sure route to escapism.



We have the gory pictures and then the politicians making the most of the event. So Mr Advani takes a higher ground stating that the opposition had forewarned the ruling party. The ruling party representative but not the Country's Primeminister conveys the trite statements , so full of drama and so lacking in effect that it seems a futile exercise.

Who are they addressing anyway? People suffering ,are not in a position to view their televised messages. May be its for the TV audiences .After all they are the votebank as well and what better opportunity then now to make an impression , build an image (In marketing terms its branded events/entertainment , forgive my usage of words but that's what it is)

Also to top it all there are citizen journalists. Ordinary people - taking pictures , reporting the event. How indifferent for one human to picture another in pain , bleeding , either dead or dying. For such indifference is why I ask again and again, "Where is the Love ?"