The Tale Of Two Mothers
By Sorit
19 April, 2005
Countercurrents.orgWhat is the similarity between Rose Gentle and Kavita Gadgil? Well , in first instance one can not find out a single similarity in-between these two because till last couple of months these two name belongs to , what we are more accustomed to say,common man or common housewives to be presice.
Kavita Gadgil is mother of Indian Air Force pilot Lt. Abhijeet Gadgil, who died in a MIG crash during his routine flight.We, the people of India are getting habituated such type of news,so, soon we forgot the whole episode until a mother , by going out of the way decided to raise question and make the concerned people answerable, regarding the whole issue, which cost her son's life.
Some thousand miles away In Britain, a mother named Rose Gentle, has more or less a same storywith her. His nineteen year old son Gordon was killed in battle of Basra last year. Now like many other mother Rose also had option to keep quite, whose sons are killed in unjust wars, and still being killed for nothing.But like Kavita Gadgil, Rose decided something uncommon, to give a voice to all those who wants to end this ongoing war of Iraq .
Both the mothers wanted to expose the truth about the death of their son and it is a disturbing thing for the establishment, because for the first time some one has dared to open up the cupboard.
Ms Rose Gentle , a housewife from Scotland, has decided to contest next month's general election against the British Armed Forces minister, Adam Ingram. Like Kavita Gadgil, the battle against the establishment is not going to be an easy one for Rose Gordon aswell.She also has to face ridiculous , machoist logics, different written and unwritten laws of war mongers and most of the all the newly
formed Military-corporate-Media axis.But no one can deny the fact that the phenomena called Kavita Gadgill and Rose Gentle is disturbing, not only for the establishment but for the common people like us as well, who quietly accepted their role of mute spectator for centuries.
Sorit lives in New Delhi and a cartoonist by profession
