Womanly Tales

Recently we saw photos of Iranian public storming the UK Embassy in Tehran and destroying public property etc… Today William Hague asks all Iranian diplomats to leave the UK within 48 hours. This is reported as the lowest level of UK-Iran ties.

This is sad – Where we live in Ealing, I quite appreciate our Iranian community through their restaurants and bakeries etc…

However what irritates me the most is how people get agitated by political parties and powers at be and think it’s OK to commit illegal offences. I often view such people and think of how close they resemble apes and chimpanzees.
Recently in India we saw a Sikh man slap a politician and all sorts of celebration through Facebook of his action — This is terribly sad. Physical assault of any form or shape is just not excusable and by using Facebook to support or promote such illegal activities some of us are just perpetuating our voyeuristic inclinations.
How many times have we seen ‘party workers’ (mostly in Mumbai perhaps?) commiting illegal activities all under the cover of political sanction.
I am glad to see that the British public did not respond by storming the Iranian embassy in response to their Iranian counterparts. However perhaps the British are more concerned with the pension strikes at present…first things first.
An excellent article in the Economist about the power of diaspora communities across the world also brings to mind the need for diaspora communities to also exert their influence through political demonstrations… for example in response to the storming of the UK embassy in Tehran, it would have been nice to see the Iranian diaspora in the UK protest agaisnt this activity in front of the Iranian embassy in London. Apna desh mein sab sher – - This does not mean that local, indigenous populations can violate their own laws in expressing their frustration with their international relations!!