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!
10 comments:
Yupthe attack is really sad. But think of it our police has been kept busy by such flimsy thing like attack on 'uttar-bharatiya', our Mumbai police so bravely encountered 'terrorist' Rahul Raj, how can we expect the police to be at its best in dealing terror when there are so many unnecessary distractions... Where's Raj Thakrey now?
Still climax is not revealing.We the people in India waiting for a conclusion.But it goes endless.Ths s too shame to our prestige.Hope today night itself everyhing will be cleared.Yes your question is correct....We talk about voting for the right government, but where is that 'right' person! ????
It's really frustrating to see such a horrific incidence happening in the financial capital of India, Mumbai. Both state and central governments should take lessons from the US in tackling islamic terror on her homeland.
As long as laymen remain indifferent, violence repeats. You can't change the corrupt politicians overnight; but u CAN change yourself. Change for the better and respond. If there is a will, there is a way-STILL!
Yes, it is indeed sad that a country like India, is sooo vulnerable. All the politicians are good at is the 'blame game' and it just makes you sick to the core. Our PM insinuated that the terrorists were from Pakistan - at that juncture, did it really matter? What if, indeed they are 'home- grown' like the press in Canada and the US are reporting? Will it make a difference to the families who lost their loved ones? Does anyone have a fool - proof method to save India from this fanaticism?
At last our brave commandos made India proud. Salute to the commandos. It is actually shame that the authorities did not take the warning given by the intelligence agencies seriously. it is high time that the politicians, common people, beuraucrats and police work single minded to eliminate terrorism. pls dont divide our great nation on the basis of religion and regionism.
salute to the commandos. At last they made India proud. The politicians who attack people on the basis of region must understand that the commandos who escaped people in Mumbai were from differrent parts of India. pls stop vote bank politics and sincerely work for India. It is high time that politicians, bureucrats, judiciary, media and common people work single mindedly inorder to eliminate terrorism
I am completely agree what u have written, but i would like to start with jai BHARAT, jai HINDUSTAN. last time when sweveral cities were attacked I was not able to critisize government. As its our own countreymen who were involved in blasts in Delhi, Gujrat and Assam. As i think it is unstoppable when our own brother starts killing us.
But this time when Mumbai attacked its nothing but just incapablity of our security agencies. it seems that terrorists had come to visit a garden like juvelliant boys, who destroyed it. Its shame for our navy that terrorists came through sea and they had no information.
As far as politicians are concerned they are real culprits. they only know to comment. Terrrorists must be hanged as soon as possible. Govt. shud make seperate bench for special case. But I know when time will come people will start asking for human rights. I remember Dhananjay Chatterjee's case, when all of my frnds were against his hanging. I dont know what was ur idea at that time. But if u want to check urself wheather u really support capital punishment or not, try to go back to this particular case. I am strong supporter of Capital punishment. I beleive, "Justice delayed is justice denied". I dont beleive that an eye for an eye will make whole world blind, becoz i dont beleive that whole society is criminal. So, an eye for an eye will make this place more happier.
Very nicely written. keep writing
Nicely written priya..perhaps the irony with our country is that we have shown immense faith in our spineless politicians who have nothing to do with the well being of the nation and it's citizans..whenever there is a terrorist strike or a communal violence every politician , no matter to which political party he belongs is out there to gain mileage from the sufferings of the general populace, by either raising communal or politicals rhetorics. It's high time we should realise the rights which the constitution of this great nation has given us. God bless us. down with terrorism and communalism. Long live India.
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