Once again ordinary innocent people in the city of Mumbai have lost their lives for reasons they will never ever know simply because they happened to be caught in the cross hairs of mayhem & senseless violence perpetrated by retarded radicals fighting for a cause that they themselves are not able to elucidate.
Senior distinguished police officers of Mumbai and other law enforcement agencies have had to involuntarily sacrifice their lives in the line of duty, stemming from senseless actions of people groping in the dark. The life long suffering now to be faced by their loved ones left behind is nothing short of an emotional incarceration, progressive pain that can never be gauged.
Three icons of Mumbai, the Taj & Oberoi Hotels & CST railway terminus have been permanently scarred and become involuntary battlegrounds on which suicidal missions are being carried out by misguided sects with the end result being fanning of more hatred we all know and are too familiar with.
People in India by the grace of the almighty have become accustomed to facing tsunamis of all kinds. We were still reeling from the shell shock of the recent global financial tsunami that had descended upon us and Mumbaikars have this senseless terrorist act unfolding upon them. By the time this ghastly nightmare ended, more than 200 people have lost their lives. This chapter may be over but the book of hatred and killing is still being penned all over the world with country, city and sect centric chapters, each one unfolding no sooner when the ink dries.
The least that Mumbaikars and for that matter all Indians can now do is to awaken and empower themselves to ensure that this kind of a nightmare will never ever repeat again. Involving ourselves in a blame game and trying to find patsies amongst us to take the blame will only further the cause of the terrorists and will be the greatest disrespect shown to innocent victims of this madness. Each one of us has duty as individuals and as responsible members of civilized society to do our bit. Rendering lip service and armchair opinions are crutches used by pathetic cowards.
Yes, the people manning intelligence, law enforcement agencies and political leaders who have failed in their core duties for which they were employed or elected are no less in a way participant in this mayhem and need to be held accountable and suitably incarcerated.
We collectively can only deliver ourselves from this madness. I haven’t switched my allegiance to the simians as yet. Human beings are probably the only race in the universe who subscribe to self destruction. We all need to do atonement and seriously rethink about the meaning of co-existence. Are we so desperate to extinguish the human candle permanently and embrace darkness and become floaters in a sea of nothingness.
I close for now with a quote from one of the greatest leaders that the human race & planet earth was fortunate to have albeit for a short while: "Fear has its use but cowardice has none” - Mahatma Gandhi.
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