The headlines of a leading newspaper reads:
YET AGAIN
The hustling and bustling city of Mumbai is attacked again.
Serial bomb blasts rock the city again killing and injuring many people.
Mumbaikars are not new to these type of attacks. They have grown immune by now, I suppose. It is a part and parcel of their life and they go out of their house everyday by wearing their heart on their sleeve. They do not know what will happen in the evening and whether they will come back home and yet they do not fear facing the unknown tomorrow sitting in their houses.
Immediately the government rushes it's task force, but what were the task forces doing all this while when the attacks were executed?
Didn't the intelligence get any tip off from somewhere as it usually does?
Is it not clear that the localites are involved in conducting these attacks?
How do so-called terrorist group from an outside country carries out it's activities so very efficiently here in India?
How long is the government just going to sit on the issue of terrorism with our neighbor country? Not the ministers, but the innocent local man is getting killed mercilessly.
Are we ever going to react strongly to this issue or are just going to look at it as an every day event?
Questions and only questions.
Wonder whether we will ever be free from these cheap attacks which not only scar the spirit of mankind, but also blot the life of an individual.
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very true mrunal, these attacks have become part n parcel of mumbai.....i think in future while describing mumbai even this would be an inevitable thing. kiiling pace of life- go to mumbai, fashion- go to mumbai, bollywood- inseparable part of mumbai, trains/ traffic/ pollution- go to mumbai, gardi- part n parcel of mumbai, poverty- mumbai, slums= mumbai, roadside yummy food- best place is mumbai, bomb attacks- want an experience- mumbai is the best place..........
ReplyDeletejust when u think tht its over for mumbai.....here we r reading abt it in papers, experiencing live, sometimes watching on news flash.....2 days, 2 months, 2 yrs people talk abt it, forget abt it, continue with routine.....again same cycle....even terrorists know this "roster".....ridiculous....
To be blunt...
ReplyDeleteWe don't value human life. So 5 or 50 or 500 people getting killed is not "something big" for our society.
How many people do you see wearing helments when riding a bike? How many car drivers wear seat belts? How many pedestrians cross the road without confusing others?
Everyone is in a rush .. for god know what??
To add to this we have a flip flop policy on most international issues including terrorism.
PuLa has used a metaphor of "Bharatacha Antar rashtriya Dhoran... Hoy hoy hoy hoy! Nahi nahi nahi nahi!" in one of his short stories, if that was the case 30 years back, it even worse now.
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