From Terror of Blasts to the ease of FireCrackers…
6 comments so farI had started writing this blog sitting at the Delhi airport, waiting for my flight which still had about 1.5 hrs to leave. Thanks to the Cab driver telling me that the airport is more than an hour away and then reaching the airport in 20 min.
Anyway, I landed in Delhi on Friday evening for a business trip and I had ‘thought’ that I would squeeze in sometime to go around the city and do some touristy stuff. I reached the guest house and was really happy see a beautifully decorated room to myself. Actually, happier when a few of my friends in the other guest house cribbed about theirs. 
After enjoying the well made dinner, I dozed off.
Next day, I was up and ready by 8.15 but thanks to the cab confusions and Delhi traffic, I managed to reached the destination with an hrs delay with a lot of colleagues still on their way.
Starting off with really high energy levels, we all were almost dead by the time we finished at about 5pm. We were just about to leave and someone told us that there were blasts near Mehrauli (a locality in Delhi) at about 2.15pm.
Surprisingly, we were neither terrified nor shocked. I mean, it sounded if it was a every day thing and if you think of it, it has. It really has…
You might call me and my friends crazy but, we were on our way to visit the Connaught Place. We had planned to take the Metro and just hang around for sometime. But, as soon as we got in the cabs, my friend received a call with someone mentioning that there was one more blast in Delhi and that too in Connaught Place.
Now, all of us were a little petrified. We canceled the plan and went back to out guest houses. (That thankfully turned out to be rumor) It was a long way back to my guest house and I just kept thinking about how things like this just keep happening…
What was the fault of the kid who picked up that packet, or his parents or people traveling in the trains in Mumbai, why this suffering for these innocent people.
I am sure, that the series of blasts that have happened all over India, have not only killed hundreds of mothers and fathers, but also killed tens of hundreds of sons and daughters who have no one left in this world now. What about a blind mother who is still waiting for his son to return home after getting her medicines????? What about the family, whose only bread earner was on his way back from a long toiling day at work???
The ministers appear on the T.V channels saying, “We are really sorry this and our condolences are with the families of the dead. We will help and compensate the family for the loss of their loved ones.
My Question is: WHO THE FUCK CARES if you are SORRY OR NOT? Would you still be SORRY if your Daughter or Mother or Father or Son or your Wife died? OR Would you be OK with the Death of your loved one, if someone paid you 5 Lacs? I don’t think the families even get 1/5th of the promised amount, considering efficiency of our system and the honesty of our babu’s.
Even after so many blasts, the government has not been proactive about their actions. If they have then why are such things still hapenning? I don’t think these things are out our control, if they really are then why is this not happening to any other countries, I don’t think our forces are so incompetent.
I feel that we are just trying to convince ourselves and just say that this is eventually going to stop so why take this pain. Who are we trying to fool? ” Ourselves.”
I mean look at the United States, once that found who the culprit was behind 9/11 and the Pentagon incidents, boom they went. I am not trying to advocate the actions of the Bush Blair government and the reason for why it happened but my biggest take away is that after 9/11 US has not been subject to any terrorist attacks.
I think we should ask this question to us and more importantly to the people who are trying to run this country - I guess the word accountability still exists. (atleast in some minds)
There is so much I wanna say but I guess I should just let you ponder over these thoughts for now…
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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Thing to ponder: Have you ever heard of any son, daughter, wife, mom-in-law, distant cousin or even the son of the great grand uncle of ANY minister dying in any bomb blast?
Never… I wish these terrorist targeted these corrupt ministers. They would get everyone’s attention and still do something good to the society.
In fact, no one can be trusted. i m sure the political wings have to be involved in all this mess. Wish we could do something about all this
well, i wouldn’t particularly say - target the ministers. unless its just ‘them’. cos with each minister will die his body guard, his driver maybe, his watchman, his wife maybe…all innocent. and of course, are we assuming we don’t and won’t ever have any close one in the ministries. so…
anyway, US not being terrorized? well, they have college shootouts these days…their embassies in other countries are being targeted. guess its just a geographical advantage that Canada is asleep and Mexico is drunk on Tequila!
While the Pakis are give birth to say “terrorize india” before “mom”.
the issue lies elsewhere…and I’m hoping Pak will understand this too after the chain of blasts at the highest levels in the past year or so. Hope they do…
Cant agree more Rahul. I know that the ppl on both sides are the ones taking the brunt of the power hungry politicians and the misdirected military men. But, from what I see now, the resolution is far far away.
I see the issue being extremism and of course, the knife-edge religious divide between the 2 neighbors. the terrorists are simply feeding off both. This issue has gone beyond Kashmir now. Its gone beyond Hindu-Muslim differences. How else do you explain whats happening in the North-east…or the Naxalites in the South.
‘The State/System’ has always been too weak and vulnerable to uneducated misguided power-hungry ‘common-men’. So that has to change. And of course, that change will entail a lot of microscopic changes at every level within the country. Sadly, we’re (indians) too disillusioned or too engrossed in the rat race to think about or effect these changed. Pity.