I am sorry for a very depressing post. Actually, the way things have been going for the last few days, I couldn't have come up with anything better. My life has been paused since the end of mid-sem. I have done nothing more remarkable than gulping down quite a few cans of Amul Coco. As always this post is also being written with the aim of me making myself feel a bit better.
Hopelessly bad as I am, I am again stuck with blabbering a bit more on the blasts, that have been carried out with terrifying regularity. These terrorists are definitely getting under our skin. We seem to have resigned. A few hours ago, when a friend brought the news of the latest blasts, the collective reply of the others was total resignation. I guess, we have started taking these blasts as daily routine. A thing we should get used to!
Everybody thinks that there is a significant probability of his/her being blown of by some bomb placed to kill some and terrorize others. The sad part is that we seem to have been caught unaware. Worse still is the fact of in this time of crisis, we find reasons to fight among ourselves instead of concentrating on our collective enemy. The common people are blaming politicians, policemen. The politicians console us and seem to be doing nothing. The police is being accused of staging a false encounter (a charge which, to my knowledge, hasn't been conclusively proved to be false!). The hooligans of all kind are making all sorts of hues and cries. Some party comes out with ideas of stricter laws. The other comes with the idea of a federal agency. Still another is busy appeasing the minorities. Religious heads come out making statements which they have no right to make!
Integrate all these different incidents over different places and time and you'll get a very very bleak picture. The regularity of these blasts must be giving confidence to the trouble-makers. Sadly, all that I do is argue, debate, accuse the politicians and write a blog. Probably you also do something equally positive. Sadly there are too many people doing similar things. Sadly the bombs don't differentiate between people of different religions. Sadly India is dying with each of these blasts.
