If you have a problem, fix it. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing. - Ernest Hemingway

Saturday, 20 April 2019

Curses & Blessings


Hemant Karkare, a senior police officer, was killed by the Ajmal Kasab gang in Mumbai on 26/11, 2008. Karkare died because he had rushed out to defend an injured colleague, and faced automatic assault rifles with just a service revolver and no bullet-proof jacket. He was awarded the highest peace-time gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, posthumously.

Earlier, Karkare investigated the Malegaon blast case in which 10 lives were snuffed out and 80 were wounded. He sent a fake sadhvi called Pragya Thakur – a former ABVP leader – to jail as a principal accused who had given her own bike in which explosives were stored, to be detonated in Malegaon with lethal effect.

That Pragya Thakur is now out on bail in these happy days for Hindutwa terror. Curiously, she is also the BJP candidate for the Bhopal parliamentary seat. And she says,

"Hemant Karkare was killed because I cursed him."

Did this wretched female caricature of a sadhu mean she had blessed the Ajmal Kasab gang to murder Hemant Karkare? What dangerous beasts are trying to rule us for a second time?

20 April 2019

[Photo of Hemant Karkare courtesy: Wikimedia Commons]

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