It was a usual evening till 6.50 pm. There in the canteen, on the 3rd floor of our office building, I was having my evening snack and was watching the western sky. Sun was setting as usual. Traffic was slowly increasing on the road below. People were returning to their heavenly abode. Everything was just normal. Suddenly the TV screen flashed the news-
“Mumbai vandalized again”.
----Terror has struck to the city again. Three blasts in a span of 10 minutes.-- Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri bazaar-- 15 died and numerous injured. Once again our intelligence and police have failed. Mumbai will be under high alert for next few days.
The newsflash shook me from inside. Terror again. So many people died without knowing the reason of their death. So many lives were taken for no reason. Those who died were the ordinary mumbaikers. The thought that I could had been one of them, sent chill down my spines.
This is totally unjustified. I felt this act of terror to be highly unjustified on the part of ordinary people. People who were never involved in any such things were killed mercilessly. I felt like people were helpless. I felt like I was helpless.
Though none of the organizations have taken responsibility, this act of terror can be done only by a coward. He who kills people for strengthening his own belief can only be a coward. And the belief is also such which he only believes to be right. Killing for proving a point cannot be justified. But terrorists have different set of thoughts. They think they have done something correct which cannot be justified by any extent of imagination.
Mumbai have been struck again and again. And once in every three years for last two decades. Form 1993 serial blasts till now; there have been 14 acts of terrorism.
Be it blasts in train or in a bus; terror has struck again and again. Intelligence has failed, security systems have failed, faith of an ordinary man failed.
Faith in Judiciary has also failed after the unending trials of “Kasab” not leading to any conclusion. Something which should have taken months is not ending in years.
But an ordinary mumbaikar has little to do. Seeing these seemingly unstoppable strikes, he has accepted this as a part of life. And have accepted the loss of fellow beings, every few years, as something inevitable.
Media talks a lost about the indomitable sprit of Mumbai. Mumbaikars, forgetting what has happened yesterday, standing up and starting a normal life again. But is it the reality? Does he have any choice? I feel the choices are limited. He takes the same train which was the blast site yesterday. He feels he was lucky last time and was not a victim of the blast. I feel the same—
I was lucky last time. But nobody knows when my luck might run out and I may be the next one.
u have rightly expressed the views of the common man who lives in the shadow of fear whenever terror strikes...the security mechanisms designed for the protection of the citizens fails each time because of the slack government policies and the complacent nature of the spineless, corrupt and irresponsible people at the helm of power.. leaving us vulnerable and making us the soft targets of terrorist attacks...it is because of the failure of the concerned authorities that ordinary people suffer…common man does become helpless in the face of such situations..thrs not much of a choice other than just condemning the attacks and feeling bad for the families of the victims of such attacks..however, all we can do is to be more alert and only hope that the government and intelligence authorities would wake up and take measures to avert such attacks…hope we and our future generations can live to see that day wen we can walk around freely and feel safe and secure..
ReplyDeleteyes.. living without fear is a distant dream.. Hope our future generations may feel it..
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