I was always under the impression that my country India was well developed culturally/socially and still developing economically.
Its not more than a year since 26/11/2008 Mumbai attacks happened and already my country(India) government has totally forgotten about it. The Prime minister of India is on whirl wind tour of USA during 26/11 this year and talking about the US – India relationship/climate change/nuclear deal which is good though but not @ the cost of missing out on paying respect to the fallen people on 26/11/2008.
May be
- they lost count of days to pay respect for the dead due to bomb blasts or
- have a better reason not known to everyone or
- didn’t care about it or
- technically the head of State is the president who is back there in India or
- practically the head of government is back in India
. you know it
Just think about it would any of the developed countries head of states would have accepted the invitation to vist a foreign country that too on the first anniversary of a bomb blast itself?
Looks like we are trying too hard to develop economically and loosing the social part of it. I do know the PM is taking care of business as a professional weighing on the benefits but still it could have been handled in a better way. Just my thought..
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It is important to pay respects to the fallen people on that day and the government did remember to pay respects.The PM was not present but the nation as a whole payed homage, do you mean to say highest office keeper should not take any out of country visits on first anniversaries?
As far as I know its a custom in India to pay homage on the first death anniversary by close relatives in any religion which is more kind of a cultural thing which in this situation since police/soldiers where involved it should have been the head of government.
It is true that the government as a whole paid homage but all I’m seeing is if PM was there for the day it would have been better but certainly not required. People would need some reassurance and PM being present would have certainly made a diff that’s what I feel.
Practically speaking it doesn’t make sense but every time u can’t be practical.