A friend of mine has her boy friend working in a top IT company in Mumbai. Because of the serial blasts yesterday , he was stuck in his office till late night and today morning he is back to work. Nothing to cheer about though. He is not showing resilience to terrorism nor has he resolved to defeat terrorism by not letting it panic him . He is very much startled , he is planning on a transfer and he would love to return to his family far away from Mumbai and be safe. But he turns up at work because he has no option . He needs to go to work to survive .
A young guy screamed into the NDTV camera that, "Only the families who lost their loved ones know the intensity of damage done by the blasts.It is easy for others to wake up the next day and go about their businesses. "
Government should take the cue. You cannot always let Mumbai suffer attacks and then pat the backs of Mumbaikars for going to work or school the next day . It is no longer accepted. The very much applauded "Mumbai Spirit" compliment is being taken with a pinch of salt by the people of Mumbai. There is intense anger that they are being targeted over and over and all Government does is praise the people for having carried on with their lives tolerating terrorism .
In reply to my last blog entry this is exactly what one of my friend Chinmaya commented. People get back with their lives only because they have to survive and not because they are Mumbaikars who are 'ever resilient to terrorism'.
i have a gut feeling it is not a terrorist attack . There has been so many incidents which we people of India blindly believe as terrorist attack. We always forget tht terrorists love to acknowledge their work.......
ReplyDeleteAnyone who causes a threat to our country's security is a terrorist whether they acknowledge their act or not
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