Mumbai Terror: The Worst India Has Seen
On 27th Nov. 08, the first line TOI was ‘possibly the biggest torror attack on Indian soil after independence.’ I was shell shocked. Is this the kind of security our politicians are giving us. ( You might be wodering why the politicians, why not the police. But in reality politicians are the one who are giving all the instruction; unfortunately the police is not but a puppet.) A viewer called Prasad sent an SMS to NDTV saying what could be a bigger insult than that we are not able to safeguard our own people? This is simply shocking and unfortunate as well.
I don’t know why after so many inceidents the politicians are only “comdemning” the attacks. “We severely condemn these acowardice attacks”. Being an Indian I have heard this time and again and I am not at all surprised. The only difference was that Dr. Manmohan Singh said there was an urgent need for a federal agency powerful enough to handle such attacks and share information between the Central agencies and the Sate level agencies which are entrusted with the duty of “spying”. If I am not wrong, it was Feb 2001 that a panel of ministers made recommendations for setting up a federal agency. That means even after 7 long years the Government is still in dilemma on what to do. Terrific.
Yesterday, this article came on The Times Of India. I was taken aback by the author’s remark:
While all evidence points to the involvement of Pakistani elements in the terror acts, New Delhi should at the same time be careful not to walk into the trap of creating major Indo-Pakistan tensions as a new president takes over in Washington and with India facing a general election in the next few months.
Why? Why should we not be tough with Pakistan? Last night someone called Sanjana was putting her view on NDTV, saying this is not a war, this is terror. I was wondering what she means by war. Frontiers? Cannons? Or what the hell? So many people being killed and still not a war?
God only knows what would happen to this great Nation and her political brethren.
My deepest consolence to the families who lost their near and dear ones. May they rest in peace.
Thank you
…to Anjan Dutta for letting us think differently.
I was listening to Anjan Du Ghonta (Two Hours with Anjan) on Sunday night. FYI, Anjan Dutta is one of the best contemporary Bengali Singers. And this program on Friends FM has been a great success right from the beginning. He’s more personal than we can really imagine.
Anyway, what he said was really touchy. He was talking about the new gen and computers. “Ekhon, kichhu kinte hole online e click korlei holo. Jinishta barite puchhe jabe. Mane, aj r kono bikreta nei.” (Now, buying is just a few clicks away; you get the stuff. That means there’s no seller.) Now, it may sound very unreasonable. But, think about the time before the online-shopping craze came into being: you used to go to some shopping mall or some shops where you used to bargain and then buy. But now, what you do is click on some products pics and order. The whole story of going-n-buying is missing, isn’t it?
When Pain Comes
…nothing really stops it.
I came to know about a guy both of whose kidneys got damaged. His financial situation is not too good either. I guess having the wealth of Bill Gates may help him. I mean the kinda money one has to spend (at least in India) for renal diseases is really too much. I heard that his college friends are raising funds for his treatment. I wish God helps him. But to be very frank, as my gf told me, it is hard to live more than 3/4yrs even someone does a transplantation. I wish there were no disease at all.
