Friday, Nov 28th – Blog Silence Day
Nov 28th, PFC will observe a day of mourning for the innocents who have lost their lives to terrorism in Mumbai. PFC Silence day is our way to condemn all kinds of terrorism. In this we would like honor and respect the brave cops who laid down their lives to protect its citizens. Salute!
No blog will be published on PFC on Nov 28th. Authors and Readers are requested to offer their respects on this silent day by maintaining comment silence.
PFCOne 2008 is postponed too. We are moving PFCOne to January 5th, 2009. Click here for the new schedule
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That is a very good gesture Oz.
Oz,
Agree with you and Support you on that….
yaah indeed a good gesture……..
its an unprecedented attack down here…..
will this finally wake up the authorities from their prolonged slumber?
Oz,
I am on.
Just a technical question, 28th Friday (from 12 midnight 29th to 12 AM 29th) is w.r.t some particular standard time or we take our own local time.
Cos we have supporters from all over the world.
oops I meant 12 midnight 28th to 12 midnight 29th.
i would like to disagree on this.
thats all we ever do, keep silent. this is not a time to observe silence. instead we should voice our opinions as one. it goes without saying that we respect and honour the cops and other brave personnel who lost their lives.
a better way would have been to open a post for discussions, and at the end of the day try and forward the entire discussion to the PMO and let them know what the people feel.
Amit,
I think the idea is to extend our condolences to all the deceased by maintaning silence.
Its not a silence against the terror.
This time, this is a strategic inflection point. If we don’t make a right move this time, this is gonna hurt us big time. I know that.
@vishesh
but we must understand one thing, this silence is always conceived by the terrorists as our weakness. we have been silent for so long.
it goes without saying that the entire nation, the entire world is grieving for mumbai. always we just thank god that it wasnt one of us. what if tomorrow, it is? its high time the citizens raise their voices? everyone nowadays has very short attention span, it is evident from all the previous tragedies.
Amit, I completely agree with you.
We should definitely raise our voices and ensure that they are heard.
We should secure our future, a vehement yes for that.
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But in that, let us not forget the people who don’t have a tomorrow. They are the martyrs in a war in which they never wanted to participate. A silence so that their voices can be heard and we never forget their cries when we build our future.
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Sorry, if it seems dramatic. But this one was straight from the heart.
@vishesh
sitting on the fence and not participating is something that the common man has tried for the last 62 years. its high time everyone takes a stance. whenever there is some terrorist attack, the floods, the stock market crash, the upper strata people are hardly affected, the politicians almost never. its just the common man who has to face the tide.
lets group up as a force and let the world know that we can face this.
@ Amit,
I am not denying it, the onus is on “stupid” common man now. He has to in-charge. No more waiting for Godot (read Government). I am not saying keep silence for ever, no sir. Take stand, voice your mind, go the whole nine yards.
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When a nation goes silent in an organized manner, its not indifference, its a statement that we are together in our voices and united in silence. Its just a lull before the storm.
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I have 40 more minutes to be part of that movement :-)
@vishesh
what i feel is, with such short attention span, we should make good use of the immediate anger from people. if today there are a 1000 people angry, allowing their anger to simmer and subside slowly in the days silence, it would be better to give them a medium to properly channel their anger and emotions. let the powers-that-are know that we the people have reached our limit.
Hmm, yeah, you do have a point out there.
But Amrish Puri said in Ghatak “Gusse ko paal, beta, gusse ko paal. Ismein bahut taaqat hoti hain”
How about channelizing our anger into some action.
A 1000 people shouting now and telling to authorities that we are angry today and tomorrow and then we don’t follow up day after.
A movement has to have sustaining power. Initial anger acts as fuel to start but it needs resolve and determination to last till last mile. Do we really have that, I wonder.
a good start is half the battle won. we have all become used to inaction. but being silent for 24 hours is also not going to help the matters. by being silent for the next 24 hrs, we might lose out on at the least half of the opinions that might have mattered.
as for the sustainment bit, some success in initial endeavour might infuse fresh life in the campaign. but we cant quit before we start.
To all the brave who lost their lives in this war.
I quote from Gates of Fire:
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“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here obedient to their laws we lie”
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I salute you and proud of you, brother!
my heart felt salute to every soul who lost their lives in this terrorist attack.
and a heart felt middle finger to all the terrorists.
the 24hrs silence is about to begin in india. i have posted my views on it, but am not going to betray my fellow pfc-ites on it. i will keep a watch on this post for the next 24hrs.
a very good gesture..we need to stand up against terrorists & politicians who r hell-bent on politicizing the issue instead of gettn together & fighting the menace..its time to join hands..may there be peace upon all of us..ameen