We lost a journalist, we lost a few hot cops & a hotter commando, we lost a few businessmen, we lost a few non-living things & we lost a lot of our people. Not that it made any major difference to the ‘Blue Billion’ numerically…actually it’s a meagre part of it. But how about the slap on our faces. The whole world now knows theirs is this country called India, wherein you can barge in any time, at any hour of the day, kill people ruin heritage buidings & still hope to get back. And then people google India in unknown parts of the world to find that it’s the seventh largest country in the world, the largest ‘secular’ living democracy under the sun, one of the highest populated countries…WOW! Would be the feeling. No not towards us…towards those 10 men who created a weeklong mayhem in the business capital of the world’s largest ‘secular’ & living democracy. So that means, if tomorrow you don’t have much work…just pack your backpacks with a few Kilos of explosives, take a flight or cruise to India to make full use of it. You won’t be disappointed, I bet.
Yes, I am the Gen Y of this nation speaking. I put up in a city with a lot of other people, houses, buses, metro, shopping malls, multiplexes, railway stations, an airport & serial blasts at regular intervals. My workplace features on the terror hitlist. My favourite marketplace has already had two blasts during the last season. My mother can’t sleep when I’m out for a movie. I thank God everytime I step out of a movie theatre, a mall or a marketplace alive. I’ve changed my shopping time to a part of the day which assumingly is less likely to face violence. Weekends are a big NO NO for movies & shopping. And now when I dine in these really swank restaurants with glass walls, I keep staring outside waiting for the gun guy to step-in & kill everyone present. And all this, surprisingly in my very own land. WTF!
And then they talk about the ‘undying spirit’ of the city & what not. In a third world land where everyday survival is a struggle what spirit can exist? So you mean if there’s a blast you won’t go to work for the whole next week? The bigger question is…can you afford to? The majority has a family to feed…so you taking a day off just after the attack is quite a far fetched dream. It’s high time we stop cashing on the FAKE ‘undying spirit’!
Now that ‘operation Cyclone’ is over & everybody is throwing around their opinions, let me make full use of the opportunity to throw mine as well for I’m a firm believer of the Fundamental Rights granted by our beloved constitution. We Indians are never able to set examples. If there’s this guy who places bombs all over the city & loves watching them explode & people die, why keep him alive when caught? I mean get him in public & just hang him…let the very active media capture the whole drama & live telecast it…just the way it did this last week thingy! Let’s set an example to the world by telling them that boss…if you think you can barge in anytime & kill people…this is what happens to you.
I remember the lines of my professor while he taught us ‘Revolution’…"All revolutions are subject to the availability of human lives."
