Wednesday, July 12, 2006

One More Time...

How many times more? How many times Mumbai should suffer? And why only Mumbai? I am asking, how many times more should India suffer? Truly, do not we have answers to these questions?

One more time bombs rocked Mumbai yesterday. It was horrifying. 7 blasts took place in just 11 minutes across various stations of suburban Mumbai. Till now 175 people are dead & 400+ are fighting with their lives in hospitals across Mumbai. Luckily none of the persons whom I know got caught into it. But what about the people who lost their lives? What about their families?

The sheer magnitude & the way they are carried out indicate the kind of planning went behind it. And if it was such a well planned activity it must have taken good amount of time. What were our intelligence services, police & lots of other so called agencies doing all this time? Were they sleeping. Seizure of explosive material across Maharashtra in last couple of months provided indications & intentions of anti-social elements. Still we slept on the information. And now.. now we see what has happened.

News agencies started covering the entire trauma immediately. But some news channels started sensationalizing the issue. They want to rip benefits to their image through this tragedy. Speaking about 'Mumbai Spirit', 'How Mumbaikars helping each other', 'How many politicians are flying to Mumbai?' they went far ahead. Politicians as usual started politicizing the issue. See BJP leaders, 4 blasts have occurred, 3 are yet unknown & they have already fired their guns at UPA government. More over, they started immediately to reach Mumbai. Now, police will be busy providing security to these VVIP people. These people will come, visit places as if they are on sight seeing, visit hospitals & keep on providing bites to news agencies. That is what they are meant for, isn't it?

And what about so called 'Mumbai Spirit' these news agencies are talking about? is it an odd gesture to help involved people. Mumbaikars are doing the same. Had it happened in any other city, people there would have behaved the same way, isn't it? People have already reached offices today. And frankly speaking Mumbaikars do not have any other option.

I truly salute Mumbaikars’ Spirit. I do not want to undermine the courage people have shown. But, how many more times will we keep on surviving under this heading? How many more times will we keep sidelining the real issue under this & various other headings? Why cannot we find solutions? Is it really hard to answer? Or we do not want to?

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