It's finally over...I hope it's over...
dont know when I've been so completely taken up with something thats not had any direct effect on me in anyway...and i dont think it's just me ... Everyone i know has been glued to the tv sets for the past three days...everyone has an opinion...and everyone has something brewing inside...
Visuals of a city under siege..horror stories of unbridled mayhem in places which anybody who's been to mumbai..would remember to have walked freely about..admiring the view....
Terror has never hit home so hard, and so close to our generation at least...ever....
the death toll as i hit out at my keys is touching 190....
and rising....
200+families in mourning today...a son, a father, a sister,a mother...dead for no reason at all..or a reason that we, the ordinary people will never understand ...
a bunch of loons..armed to the teeth, just seemingly floated into India's most influential city and caused this mayhem leaving destuction and terror in their stay...and we as a nation have watched this unfold in our living rooms...with a growing sense of frustration, anger and rage. What?? How?? we actually let em do all this??
Forget the 'why' for a while...whatever god forsaken political, religious, national alliances they had...goddammit...let that be damned for a while...
The fact that our nations security hangs by the finest of threads..and lives of innocent millions are just there... ripe for the picking for those b##$$ is ridiculous...and scary....
and this strike brings home a lot of other incidents..i confess that all the other blasts that have happened this year, Malegaon, Delhi, Jaipur, Guwahati.... they hardly registered on my radar... people died there as well...not in such; if i may use the word 'glamorous' situations....but human lives have been lost...
There are fewer things that disgust me more at the moment than an ad by the BJP in the newspaper accusing the congress for these lapses...is this the time to indulge in such political one-up manships?? are our chosen national representatives such insensitive oafs ?? ...
Running a close second would be the homegrown 'terrorists' we have...a bespectacled 'Marathi' idiot who sets aflame passions, with 'his city' Mumbai under siege... he conveniently went missing for two days...and the Janus sided Gujarat CM who offered a widow a cash reward, thankfully to be rudely rebutted...
I see a shattered Major Unnikrishnans mom...Hemant Karkare's wife...Gajendra Singhs children... and a mass of multitudes at their last rites...
and thousands of others like me who grieve alongside..and have been rather tragically shown what being a 'true hero' is all about... the army..the forces... the police... who ' give their todays for our tommorow' ... we salute the men... better late than never...
As a worked up Barkha Dutt on screen put it... "Today...we are all Mumbaikars..."
I sit; a scared and frustrated man today... frustrated that in our country incidents and events like these, are becoming a daily occurence...and all I can do is sit, twiddle my thumbs...and blog out my rage...
scared that tommorow..it just might be somebody i know, like it's been today for so many in Mumbai...will i be able to take it??
Not sure..not sure at all...
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yaar.. iss pe pata nahi comment karna chahiye ya nahi... but, u blogged down exactly what we all have been feeling... i have tears in my eyes reading this blog- in grief and in anger..
really, none of us know why this is happening and what's the solution to stop all this.. all we can do is to stare at newspapers and tv sets and keep getting more frustrated at our own helplessness... surely, tomorrow someone of them can be our's, but yet then we would have no option but to mourn in their loss...
shivraj patil's resignation or for that matter a new govt -- is it guaranteed that they will help improving the situation, guess not.. but what then? it's big time that the answer is found... because as much as i detest george bush, i truly believe that we indians are getting resilient... just showing the bloody terrorists that we would remain united come what may isnt going to help...
there is something bigger and mightier thing that remains stored...
Seriously, I have never felt so bad.. Can you believe that I had a dream yesterday where I could hear bomb blasts, firing and commandos running.. woke up horrified in the middle of the night!! may be cos I was watching the terrifying scenes all thro' the day! There was a drop of tear when I watched the funeral of those brave men.. may their souls rest in peace.. Ur blog truly reflects what many of us feel today..
You cannot eliminate terrorism without eliminating at least 90% of all politicians in this country, 20 to 40% of Policemen, more than 70% of all Lawyers, and a similar percentage in so many other fields.
When some other kid at school was enjoying a Dairy milk after refusing to give even one-tenth of it to you, even after you asked, you would probably have hated him.
When people start living for themselves, their family and friends, the people who do not have anyone they can call 'Family' can't stand it. Add to it a sense of rejection from the society.
It's high time we all changed. We have a lot more family-less Mumbaikars today. Unless we open up and welcome all of them into our fold and treat them as part of the one Indian family, we aren't going anywhere.
The day when we see someone begging on the streets and not walk past thinking it's not our problem is the day we are going to improve.
Whew.. A lot of what you call Balderdash :)
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