Who destroyed the Queen?

The list of people responsible for this incident was as follows:
> The 24/7 news channels in India. For more than 2 days, the news channels ran pictures of the desecrated statue, the statue itself was not one of the majestic ones set up and protected by the government or local communities. The incident had a feel of a local dispute rather than a racial statement. Yet the news channels played it up worse than a death of a popular politician. They debated who did this and why? They argued it could be rival castes, etc and enflamed passions. When the Queen burnt, they kept showing images of the train ablaze as if to taunt groups of Dalits, “The people of Ulhasnagar have done this to prove their loyalty to Dr. Ambedkar what have u done?”. This was extremely irresponsible behavior. News channels should report news not create it. Healthy debate is one thing but to postulate that the incident is racially motivated is not acceptable. News channels show know their audience, not everyone in India is savvy to know the difference between reporting news and mindless conjecture. I am very sure that someone incited the mobs taking the news channels debates to be truths. Shame on you journos.
> The politicians of India, local municipal and state government. For the entire day that Maharashtra burnt, not one politician came forward and requested the people to maintain peace. The chief minister of Maharashtra was on his way to Singapore and had to reluctantly cancel his trip. Not once did he or his Home Minister Mr. R.R. Patil show his face on any of the news channels. The great Dalit leaders, Mr. Prakash Ambedkar and Mr. Ramdas Athavale who have never met a news camera they didn’t like, were missing for more than 3 days. None of the local corporators of Ulhasnagar or Mumbai came forward with a token apology and request for peace. All this because the BMC (municipality) elections are just around the corner, while some political parties wanted to embarrass the ruling parties, the ruling parties did not want to come across as anti – Dalits so they chose not to take a stand one way or the other.
> The law enforcement. In Mumbai they say the cops are never on time. This was the image most portrayed in Indian Movies. The Mumbai police chiefs were so angered by this image that they passed legislation banning movies from showing the cops in this bad light. On this day cops were prominently absent. When the miscreants stopped and started emptying the train, it must’ve taken some time. No cops were alerted, when the train did not arrive at the next station after leaving the previous, no railway police were deployed to investigate why? In the days following, there were images of police standing beside the passengers offloaded from the train and gawking as rioters set her ablaze.
> The Indians. Shame on the people who thought they could make a statement by burning the train. Shame on the passengers that got off the train and watched as their property was doused in fuel and set ablaze. Shame on the people who lived next to the spot where the Queen was burnt and watched. I am sure there were hundreds if not close to a thousand people on the train that morning. The rioters were not in those numbers. Someone should have rushed the rioters and beaten them on sheer numbers. But the passenger of the Queen is a middle class/upper middle class common Indian. They are god fearing people who have an attitude that I should not be hurt, my property should not be hurt, who cares if the Queen burns, it’s government property.

The incident reminded me of flight 93, the brave souls of the flight took on the dangerous hijackers and crashed their flight. They all perished but they may have saved a lot more people and even the symbol of American democracy, the White House. Will Indians ever have the passion to protect something other than their own lives? Will “I love my India” be anything more that a slogan or a kitschy song?