moshe's journey

i can just see it coming.
this piece is about moshe. you know moshe - of course you do, everybody does, he was the jewish kid who got saved by his nanny during the 26/11 attacks on nariman house. he is now safely living with his nanny in israel. we all saw his photo in the papers and shared his pain when he lost both his parents to the terrorists' bullets, we were relieved when his nanny carried him out of the flames and we were charmed by his smiling face, safe in his nanny's lap in israel. now, i have two questions at this juncture.
1) why the fuck is he in israel? his parents both lived here, so there's no reason he went there. its not like he 'went back to his native israel'. he just went to israel. does this mean that india is no longer safe for him? shouldnt we be saying, 'no dude, come stay with us, we'll make sure you're ok' instead of being happy that he's far away from india?
2) how the fuck is moshe a hero? i agree, he lost his parents and everything but if anyone, isn't it the nanny we should be talking about? after all, she was the one saving him from the fire... he was just getting saved. can we have a round of applause for the nanny here?

ok now getting down to business. the 2-year-old kid is presently in israel (i think ive mentioned that). so one day, around 15-20 years later, he will be all grown up and will want to rediscover his roots and will probably make a trip to india to do so. he will no doubt visit nariman house and will no doubt have tears in his eyes when he is there. which is all well and good and natural. my problem is the media is going to have a field day when it happens. i can just see it coming - 'moshe says hello again' or some such schmitzy headline. worse, cultural historians will use moshe's life to mark our journey as a nation, as a people. just like paul mc cartney - he wrote a song 'when im 64' and when he actually turned 64, the media marked it as 'the end of an era' and hailed paul as 'the symbol of the baby boomer generation'. i fear that moshe, whether he likes it or not, will be a yardstick to measure our lives by. now this just pisses me off. reason being that we already have a yardstick to measure our lives by - his name is Master Rehan Vadra.

we indians have been lucky in this matter - we have always had a yardstick. before Master Rehan, we had Master Rahul - before that Daddy Rajiv; before him Dadi Priyadarshini. and the poster boy of india himself - Bade Chacha Nehru. oh and Motilal Sa'ab was the pioneer - even though the poor man spent 3 years writing a constitution that was eventually chucked in the bin.