13th July...Mumbai !!

It was around 7:15 in the eve. I was leaving from the office and my cellphone started ringing, it was from one of my old friends. “Hey are you fine?” he said I soon as I picked up the phone. “What is this, no hi, no hello, direct question, what happened?” I threw a counter question. “You don’t know? Are not you in Mumbai? “He said avoiding my question. “No, I am in pune but will you tell me what happened?” I was feeling anxious. “Just now I saw in news that there were serial blasts in dadar, jhaveri bazar and opera house” he said. There was nothing else to say for me and for him. This is not the first time I am getting this type of call. Now people don’t even get shocked by this kind of incidents. It is like a part of daily routine, daily news and daily life. News channels will make high TRP, with breaking news for at least a week or so. Police officials will put barricades across the roads for at least a month or so. Hospitals will treat victims for at least a quarter or so. And then everything will be like before for them. Who suffers the most are families of victims, common man.
Later, there were many reasons given for the blast.
Kasab’s birthday, to whom we are protecting as if he is son in law of country.
Mr. Chidambaram’s speech in which he said, “There are no more terror attacks”.
Mr. Rane’s statement, which said, “Mumbai police is in better position to counter terror attacks.”
Removal of barricades from Gateway of India.
And many more reasons are given to debate on…
May be there is no reason behind it. It’s just they know that they enjoy and are free to hurt the soul of this country. But whatever is the reason it is not acceptable. I don’t know what needs to be done to stop this. Gathering in fear and Lighting candles is not working any more. Catching, keeping them in safe, spending millions on them is also not working any more. Giving a new list of wanted and begging them to handover, again, is not at all working.
We need to think of something effective. We have to do something so that they live in fear, not we.