Bomb blasts, first in Bangalore (more like a dress rehearsal) and then in Ahmedabad and more live bombs are being discovered and defused. Earlier it was Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow...the list growing bigger (ofcourse blasts in J&K has become part of heritage of independent India). So the terrorists are targeting 'second -tier' metros now, according to our media. Now what? Is there panic? Mayhem? People scared of their own shadows? Not in India. We are such a resilient group of people that we just bounce back to 'normalcy' instantly. Keep aside the fear factor, many of us were least bothered about the whole thing.
Most people in Ahmedabad and Bangalore were jolted for a while but the rest of India watched the events (quiet keenly, I must admit) on TV and then flipped channels to more 'entertaining' numbers, their excuse, "Enough is enough, we cant let terror rule over our lives, so why not just ignore the gruesome details (when you get to see more gore on Hindi movies) and watch some Bollywood 'natch-gana' (legshaking) or better still, drown all the sorrow in some hep watering hole after a movie?" Quite practical. It was the media who had their fill as you could almost feel their excitement in this new scoop after the theatrics of MPs during the confidence vote in the parliament. They held debates, discussions, tele-conferences with anybody whom they could get hold of, polls, statistics and even interviewing a parent who had lost his son in the incident. Two days later, life goes on. Its Que Sera Sera...Hakuna Matata. Who cares even if the bombs were 'manufactured' in your neighbourhood? Who would even bother to alert the police of suspicious people or objects? All I want is to make money and then get back to my home, my kingdom. Even if the very people whom we elect to rule the country would turn out to be traitors, we would rather continue making the same mistakes than step out to protest. Incredible, we Indians are...
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It is high time government puts in a system for common man's security.As we all know a good chunk of the resources are used up to provide security to VIPs & VVIPs.The simplest system of surveillance is of course the CCTV at vulnerable locations, but everybody knows that there is no dearth of technology which could be put to use to monitor and prevent pre planned bomb attacks.If the miscreants are able to use the technology for planning attacks, why can't we use the technology to prevent it.Are we going to accept and reconcile that the terrorists are more organised against the whole government and police machinery ?
What is required is that the government should give the high priority that this issue deserves.
OK, hope people who matter take up the issue at appropriate forums instead of merely discussing or writing about it .
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