Mumbai blasts

I will throw up if somebody mentions the Mumbai spirit and resilience to me once again, i really will. Its not only overtly romanticized, it has reached a point where Mumbaikars will take shit after shit without giving a damn.

However shocking, tragic and barbaric those terrorist attacks were, killing unnecessary innocent lives, for me our reaction to it was more shocking and terrible. Minutes after the blasts, even before they could confirm how many blasts have actually occured the media were taking of the Mumbai spirit and how will it bounce back.

According to me a free civil society is best represented by the media. Its the voice of the people. But if the coverage of these blasts are anything to go by then we have a huge problem of misplaced priorities.

Terrorism is a global phenomeneon, India has been a witness to it for more than a decade. Its not that bomb blasts, affect Kashmir or that remote village in the Northeast anymore, it has entered our lives. Practically anybody could have been on that train, if it was a weekend i would have been on it. Its a war, a global war,and to tackle it needs vision, efficiency and a unrelenting swift criminal justice system.

Can anyone tell me what were Kunal Kohli and Shabana Azmi doing on the panel of We the People and the show on CNN IBN? A social activist, i dont remember her name, announced that the solution is we have to stamp about fundamentalism from our homes. How very insightful madam, go and give your fucking sermon to Osama bin Laden and Praveen tagodia, you may just change the world. Its the last thing we need, a social activist deciding how do we tackle terror. Agreed fundamentalism should be stamped out and the likes of Shiv Sena should not be allowed to take advantage, but why give them ideas of it in the first place. My question is where were the terrorism experts, strategic thinkers, operatinal task force anlysing what should be done to avoid more attacks like this.

The point is from corridors of government to newsrooms of media houses, we are yet to realize the danger we are facing. The previous government was more inclined to stop minoritysm than terror, and now this government is doing the reverse. We have an economist Prime Minister (i am not sure of his economic credentials anymore), whose sppech on TV the other day looked like begging more than a warning to terrorists. For gods sake dude we know you are a nice man, get over it. The less said about the Home Minister the better.

We are supposed to be a Nation on the brink of being a global power, but our actions are ridiculously third world. Dont be surprised if some more of us are blown apart.