SPINELESS TERRORISTS

Just hours after news reached on our television screens of the Srinagar blasts, another series of blasts shook all of us.

7 highly planned bomb blasts have taken place in the local trains of Mumbai, and as of now, 171 people have been reported dead, with the numbers expected to rise. The saboteurs are telling India that they are alive, kicking and have the capacity to strike at any place in India, at a time of their choosing.

Many of them who died are regular people like you and me. And the timing was perfect - past 6 pm - the time when many leave work and head home.
The packed trains, the uncontrollable crowd. Something like this was waiting to happen. Many a times, when I used to see crowded places, I looked around the sea of people and would think, ‘this kind of situation is every terrorist's wet dream’. And this time, the dream came true.

Whom do they exactly want to target? The middle class men returning from a day’s work? Or the working ladies knitting sweaters on their way home? Or the dreamy students discussing home-work and love? One thing is for sure, they have got the nerve of our country – the middle class man!

Sadness and immense rage are the only two emotions one can have at a time like this. As the images are being broadcasted over here in Delhi, I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of tension and mayhem which the people must be experiencing in Mumbai right now. The feeling of never seeing your loved ones again. The feeling of helplessness.

Why do such terrible things have to occur? What kind of a sick mind is responsible for an inhuman act such as this??

We feel gratified with out pour of condemnation of these acts across the world and forget about the masterminds and feel satisfied with nabbing petty terrorist who executed these acts (that too is not sure). With every such incident, we all sing song, that these people are no human beings & have no religion and go back to our daily chores and don't bother to understand the agenda and long-term goals of these pathetic creatures.

But despite all the anger, hatred and sadism...it is reassuring to know that courage and kindness still exist in the heart of some. For many hours after the blast occurred...NO police help...or help from the government came. In the face of such a calamity, it wasn't the inefficient "system" that responded...but rather the common man of India. Now I don't care how cliched that may sound, but that's exactly what happened. People who heard the blast came rushing to the scene to carry the injured to nearby hospitals themselves.
This is the common man of Mumbai.
This is the resident of "the rudest city in the world". Carrying bodies of injured and dead, drenched in blood, on their shoulders. Wanting to give blood to someone they've never seen or heard of. Pictures of this incident that I can never forget are of bulk of handbags, supposedly having cash in them, lying near the tracks, with nobody bothering to take away the money, because they are busy saving the lives of their owners, totally strangers to them, because that seems more precious to them and people distributing water and food on the streets, free of cost, to the stranded passengers of the trains. It shows we certainly know how to prioritise.

Well...GET LOST Reader's Digest, and an even bigger GET LOST to whoever thought up that stupid survey. I doubt that the people of ANY OTHER country would react in such a selfless way to come and help their fellow man, even though its not in any way a part of their profession.