Where have all the Leaders gone?

Recent few days have been miserable for not only the citizens of Bombay
or India but for everyone. I believe, and also hope at the same time that my belief is true, that no person in this world would enjoy the site of people being killed mercilessly. As the days pass by there are many questions that are raising in everyone's mind. What has happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What can be done? What action to take? Whom to blame? etc etc. The questions are seriously countless. You cannot have a stopping to this.

Everyone wants to do something against it. I totally respect everyone’s feelings and also feel happy that people really want to change things. There are mainly two schools of thoughts: One that says we need to change things and are looking at ways to do that and another one feeling nothing can be changed its going to be the same. Both the set of people keep fighting against each other spending time in arguing over various issues sticking to their principal belief. I don't see negative in this situation. I don't want to blame the first ones by saying: How can we make changes or what actions can be taken? Neither do I want to question others why do you feel nothing is going to change? What makes me happy is that we forget that all the people do feel pain and are thinking a lot about the matter. Whether they are thinking about bringing about changes or whether they have evaluated entire situation and feel that its a such a mess that nothing can change. These thoughts in all the people show that we do have people who care and have energy to bring about something. What really surprises me and is the question way above in my mind is Where have all the leaders gone?

To put some perspective we need to walk back in history and remember certain events.

1893: One man was traveling in train and was thrown from first class compartment even though he had a ticket and was also beaten down. People there were fighting to stop one bill which took away power of voting from non whites. These people got leadership of this beaten down Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and could successfully over turn the bill.

1963: With the hope that they can stop the discrimination that the black people had faced in America for generations people marched to Washington under the leadership of one man Martin Luther King claiming I have a Dream.

1969: Vietnam war was going and people wanted to make a statement about their feeling. One newly married couple John and Yoko took the opportunity of the bed-in honeymoon by singing Give peace a chance. This statement very much reflected that feeling.

I can go on and on with many many such events. This list will never stop but what point I want to make is this isn't the first time that the conditions of our society has deteriorated. We have seen bad times and will see them in future too. But what I feel today is the lack of leaders. Do we have today people who can really lead and guide the public anguish and channel them into proper action. Every order of society has preciously participated in leading the people whether it is in politics, music, films, social service, sports etc. But today we really don't find those leaders in the required numbers. So again I come to my point is there are people who want to do something. People who are thinking about bringing the change. And what we need are the leaders who can help about bringing this change.