What happened in Mumbai yesterday is really very shocking... I still can't believe this is happening now... I think nobody who loves Mumbai as much as I do would believe it...
Where is our Mumbai? One feels kinda lost now. There is this huge numbness that has come over. One can't feel, can't think, can't do anything but sit in front of television and watch the death toll increasing.
Who is dying out there? The Police, the commandos, the terrorists, 'the common man'? In short, the man who is working to earn his bread and butter, and trying to do that by the only means he knows. The people, who were shot dead on V.T. station, were on the way home from work, going back to their families... Had they not been shot dead, one wonders what would they be doing now? 'The common man' would have gone home, had dinner with his spouse, put their children to the bed and slept peacefully, thinking about the things to do tomorrow. Don't we all do that? Work for the day, have some entertainment at home and go to sleep thinking of things to do tomorrow, things to do on the weekend. I wonder what these men would have thought about their weekend plans. Visiting friends, going out shopping, catch a movie or staying at the home? Yes, they would have done that, had they been not taken away from their normal lives by a bunch of 'young adults' (they were no kids, adults neither, people of 20-25 years age) who think they are doing some noble work for some noble person. A person, who is sitting somewhere in this country or abroad, watching his orders being executed and laughing at all of us; the naive citizens of this country, who still don't know what they should or should not do in such situations.
Right now, looking at the scenario, one can’t blame any lone entity, be it the government, the politicians, the police, the commandos. The Mumbai Police, supposed to be the best in the world after Scotland Yard, were doing their duty when all these terrorist attacks took place. The police are trained to catch the criminals and law-breakers. How would anybody expect them to combat armed men, carrying a bunch of AK-47s, hand-grenades and rocket-launchers? Still, without any adequate protective equipment, they reached on the scene and tried to stop them. To think of a situation, where Hemant Karkare, The Chief of Anti-Terrorist Squad, went ahead with his men, regardless of his life; one ought to salute him. Vijay Salaskar, who has killed so many law-breakers, got killed by the hands of terrorists. These are our heroes, who went ahead, without stopping to take on the armed men.
While these people were risking their lives to save Mumbai’s significant monuments, the citizens and the foreigners, our ‘respectable’ politicians started a contest of who reaches the scene first. Arriving all the way from Delhi by helicopters, 3 leaders of 3 different parties just couldn’t share 1 helicopter, even in a crisis situation. They had to waste more of taxpayers’ money to go and visit the dead bodies of 100 taxpayers of this country. After arriving at Mumbai, all that the opposition party leader wanted to say was, “There was less violence when Mumbai was last attacked in our regime”. What kind of insensitive and shameless statement is this? What are they trying to prove? “Vote for us and you will have to live with less violence”? The key question here is, why are we supposed to live with any violence at all? It is a known fact that you can’t have a warning of terrorist attacks and you can do nothing to prevent them. But, when it was a time of taking a corrective action and to support the rescue operation going on, all these people could think was the coming elections and depleting vote-bank. Who will remain to vote for them, if these terrorists plan on a massive attack and destroy the city all together?
These terrorists, all within the age group of 20-25, in stead of earning their living and supporting their families by respectable means; are out there, risking their lives with AK-47 in their hands and tones of hatred in their hearts. Where does this kind of hatred come from? That too, when all others are thinking of getting good jobs, marrying, supporting their families… This is by no means, a rebellious action or a sudden outrage. It is a meticulously planned and bluntly executed attack. They are actually brainwashed into believing that they are doing good for their kaum, their religion. They say that they are doing this to take revenge on Hindus because of Babri Masjid incident. For how many years will they keep taking revenge of one incident? Were 1993 bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai not sufficient? What more do these people want? Did they ask a person what religion he belonged to, before shooting on V.T. station or before throwing a hand grenade? No, they didn’t. Yesterday, hindus and muslims were injured equally. This extremist thinking and outrageous behavior doesn’t lead to any solution of any problem. But the key question here is; does the problem really exist? Are muslims in India targeted by hindus? And even if they are, then what purpose does the attack on Taj and Oberoi suffice? Creating mayhem and taking people’s lives just because they want to prove their existence is a strategy followed over the time by various terrorist groups.
If we look at the death toll, today we can see it has reached upto 150. What did these 150 innocent people do to get killed by the terrorists? What was their fault? Nothing! They just happened to be at the wrong place at the worst time. One can’t help but think that in a country of a billion people, there is no value for a single human life today. It is so easy to kill a person! Just shoot a bullet, throw a hand grenade and the work is done! The most amazing thing is, the killer knows that it’s so easy. It all looks like a computer simulation game. Take a gun, aim, shoot, and your enemy is dead within seconds. Is that how these terrorists train their people? To take pleasure in killing, looking at the blood flowing like water? Do they really enjoy it or they just finish it off as an ordinary work, a regular job? What do they think while killing a man? Are they really aware of him as a human, or only an ‘enemy’ that they have to finish off?
The most disgusting thing put forward by all the terrorist attacks in the world is that human life is very cheap today. The price of a human has become equivalent to the price of gunpowder needed to make one bullet- nothing more, nothing less!
May all those who are dead rest in peace and those alive, take some action and fight the war against humanity. Amen!
