An 'eye-for-eye' seems to be the refrain of terrorists these days... They seem to be having a go at every other city in India... (experimenting, I suppose!)... The chronology is completing itself in an alphabetical order too: Ahmedabad, Assam, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Guwahati, Kolkata, Mumbai... and this list continues.
Even as I am writing this blog, fresh firing and explosions can be heard at the Trident and Oberoi in Mumbai. The Taj Hotel, Mumbai's oldest hotel, is slowly getting destroyed by terrorists who have lost their humanity and are fanatic robots following orders of emotion-less 'terrorists'!
Apart from terrorists bombing our country, our own TV channels seem to be no less in sensationalising the terror attacks across the nation. They keep bombarding and raising the heckles of the public with their striking headlines! India TV even went, rather stooped to the extent of airing an interview with an atankwadi who belonged to a terror group called Deccan Mujahideen. In the history of Indian television, no terrorist has directly spoken to a channel...then why choose India TV...The questions asked were as follows: (As if terrorists care about India TV, huh!):
India TV: Aap kitne log hain Taj mein?
Aatankwadi: Hum kyun bataye hum kitne log hain
Interviewer: Dekhiye, agar aap sab bol rahe hain ki is waqt aap Taj mein hain, toh hum jaanna to chahenge hi...
Aatankwadi: Achcha, hum saat log hain
Interviewer: Ab bataiye ki aap kyun yahan par aaye hain? Aap yahan kyun aatank macha rahe hain?
Aatankwadi: Hum bas hum par (musalmanon) par ho rahe atyacharon ka badla le rahe hain!
Before the interviewer could start asking any further questions, the 'aatankwadi' hung up on him...
The media has made a circus of the entire gun firing and encounter - it looks more like the T20 match where the commentator updates us ball-by-ball about how many wickets are gone! Ironically, this time it is innocent people holed up in the hotels...what have they done? and a news anchor constantly shouting out into the mike about how many terrorists have taken ppl hostage! To top it all, idiotic politicians criticising the government and their policies and indulging in mud-slinging.
I am actually numbed about the fact that Mumbai and India in general has become so vulnerable that anyone could attack it from anywhere - sea/road/rail/even air!
Anger seeps in when I find politicians hogging all limelight just at a time when the NSG and Army and all the armed forces are uniting to save the hostages...
We talk about voting for the right government, but where is that 'right' person! Whichever govt comes, India is always attacked. Why can't our politicians think beyond votebanks and for once help create one federal body, and try and work out stern measures to root out terrorism from India! The very fact that terrorists attack only India and Pakistan (in South Asia) (looking back at statistics, I come to the conclusion that China, Korea and Japan have remained unscathed), shows that we are totally TFGs (taken for granted). Our Govt has been so soft on terror and terrorists that external elements now feel it is their birthright to attack us left, right and centre! All I want is that arrested terrorists must be given capital punishment so the next time they come attacking here, they will think twice!
People often poke fun at me being proud of being a Mumbaiikar - but so wat? I cannot stop caring for a city and its people even if am not living there...My birth city has given me my identity, afterall! So, I would also want as a citizen of India, to ask the Government to become more responsible and help uphold the nation's pride! For now, Jai Mumbai, Jai Maharashtra!
