much ado about nothing

the latest news hitting the newspapers is the detention of shahrukh khan at one of the airports in America for identification,the same thing happened with Dr. kalaam a few days ago.though both the victims(should i call them) took it lightly and humbly but it is our media which is blowing it out of proportion.what is a big deal in frisking anybody for the sake of security,after all "it is better to prevent and prepare than to regret and repair".every country has the right to do so,more so if you had encountered a 9/11.it is because of this security consciousness that no terror attack took place after that in America.many are saying that we don't frisk bred Pitt,Angelina Jolie or bill Clinton when they come to India but then who stops us from doing that.is it because of our colonial hangover,inferiority complex or our lethargic approach towards security that we don't frisk whites?.our media is thriving on nonsense issues,why don't it bring forth our security lapses and loopholes even though we face terror attacks every another day unlike America.but why should i only blame media,they are people amongst us,like us.the problem lies in our Indian society and the name of the problem is megalomania and if that is too technical a word then should i call it VIP syndrome.this syndrome is in our blood and we are born with it,remember the famous line which each one of us use more often than not in our life during an altercation;"do you know who I AM?",this line says it all.we all want to be treated differently,after all we are not mango people,and we do different things to prove that,we take privilege in jumping queue's,get our work done by greasing some body's palm,break traffic rules.after all we are very busy people who hate to wait.we would spit anywhere,jam the both sides of a railway crossing because we have every right to cross it first,we use PRESS, POLICE and VIP PARKING stickers on our private vehicles just to make others feel that they are just another nonsense creature on this earth.in our roadways buses i have seen seats reserved for M.P and M.L.A,but yet to see one using them.this is just to appease them and glorify them.i had read a news years ago that tony Blair,the then prime minister of Britain was not offered a seat while he was travelling in a bus,does that make us think?.i find VIPfication of great Indian middle class when i see a red light over a maruti-800 car,should i feel happy by that?.we should shed away this hypocrisy.