This blog was written in Dec '08 in one of my other blogs and and is imported to this blog.
I was thinking for a long time to post my first blog but nothing drove me to write a blog and then happens the terror attack in Mumbai. Now that all is over(for the time being, I should say), I am not glad that I have got a 'worthy' incident to muse about; rather it's the sense of helplessness surging within me that makes me write this. It's been 8 days since the attack took place and all our politicians and news channels still debate on what went wrong or what we should do to prevent this; and to top this all we have resignation drama going on as well.
I am also not sure whether our politicians are at least seriously discussing this or are making use of this as a free publicity as elections are just around the corner. But the million dollar question in every Indian's mind is - "What has the government 'done' till date or what is it planning to do?".
I also happened to notice another thing when I was following the news channels. The two sentences "Enough is enough" and "Spirit of Mumbai" are being repeated so frequently that these statements have now become cliches. I have spent 7 months in Mumbai and I know or rather I have felt what the statement "Spirit of Mumbai" means. But someone answer me - Just because the people are spirited and come together after any tragic event whatever be the magnitude, should they be tested till their death? If the same repeats every now and then, there won't be a city called Mumbai about which we can all boast sitting in the safety of our home town.
Or perhaps, who knows? my/your city is the next in the agenda of terrorists. Looking back at the last statement, I wonder if two dozen young kids can wreck such a massive havoc in a city like Mumbai, then what would be the effect if a few hundreds of them enter a small, peaceful tier-2 city about whose 'spirit' we have never even thought of. They can literally take over the whole region and if taking lives is the only thing they want, they can thrive on the city. NSG, Army, Navy or any force for that matter would find it difficult even to reach the place thanks to the strong infrastructure that is built in the last 61 years. We would finally end up with 'LeT Occupied CityX', 'Indian Mujahideen Occupied StateY' etc... and we would be content to give fancy acronyms in the lines of 'PoK' and '26/11'.
I was thinking for a long time to post my first blog but nothing drove me to write a blog and then happens the terror attack in Mumbai. Now that all is over(for the time being, I should say), I am not glad that I have got a 'worthy' incident to muse about; rather it's the sense of helplessness surging within me that makes me write this. It's been 8 days since the attack took place and all our politicians and news channels still debate on what went wrong or what we should do to prevent this; and to top this all we have resignation drama going on as well.
I am also not sure whether our politicians are at least seriously discussing this or are making use of this as a free publicity as elections are just around the corner. But the million dollar question in every Indian's mind is - "What has the government 'done' till date or what is it planning to do?".
I also happened to notice another thing when I was following the news channels. The two sentences "Enough is enough" and "Spirit of Mumbai" are being repeated so frequently that these statements have now become cliches. I have spent 7 months in Mumbai and I know or rather I have felt what the statement "Spirit of Mumbai" means. But someone answer me - Just because the people are spirited and come together after any tragic event whatever be the magnitude, should they be tested till their death? If the same repeats every now and then, there won't be a city called Mumbai about which we can all boast sitting in the safety of our home town.
Or perhaps, who knows? my/your city is the next in the agenda of terrorists. Looking back at the last statement, I wonder if two dozen young kids can wreck such a massive havoc in a city like Mumbai, then what would be the effect if a few hundreds of them enter a small, peaceful tier-2 city about whose 'spirit' we have never even thought of. They can literally take over the whole region and if taking lives is the only thing they want, they can thrive on the city. NSG, Army, Navy or any force for that matter would find it difficult even to reach the place thanks to the strong infrastructure that is built in the last 61 years. We would finally end up with 'LeT Occupied CityX', 'Indian Mujahideen Occupied StateY' etc... and we would be content to give fancy acronyms in the lines of 'PoK' and '26/11'.
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