A year after 26/11 -- My frustration

After a year dust finally seems to be settling down following the worst terror strike on India, perpetrated by a bunch of crazy lunatics across the border seeking their place in heaven with virgins by killing in name of god..

It's been a year today when this dreadful and horrifying attack on the Taj, Oberoi, Trident and CST station happened which killed many innocent people. This incident not just shook Mumbai but our whole nation battled the trauma.
Mumbai has always been the target of these terrorists since 1993 and im dead sure if we didn't cure our impotence it will continue to be the target. Since the last two decades we have witnessed a series of suicide attacks and bombings and all kind of coward acts by these terrorists in different parts of our country.

But in how many cases our agencies and govt able to catch them or kill them by attacking their camps and their breeding institutions. Years and years of preaching of Non-violence by Buddhas and Gandhis have made our nation and our people IMPOTENT....

By impotency i don't mean physically but mentally.. They attack our parliament, we do not screw them. They attack our temples, They hijack our flights, they attack our Mumbai not once not twice but thrice, still we do not screw them.
The whole nation in fact the whole world knows who the main center of terrorist activity is but still I don't know what and why are we waiting for? Sometimes i really think that whether our country is prepared to fight terrorism or not..

How many more bomb blasts and shootouts we need, to take action against the terrorists?
In 1971 at Munich where 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Hamas the Israeli govt did the operation ''wrath of god'', for Sep 11 the US had ''operation Enduring freedom'' and for 2 yes for only 2 Israeli soldiers killed by Hizbullah, Israel declared a war on Lebanon.

Bhagwan Krishna in gita said "Ahimsa parmo dharma, dharmo himsa tathaivacha'' meaning ''non violence is the greatest Dharma but violence against evil is also dharma"..

But hang on! We are a peace loving, and a non violent nation. If we catch a terrorist we will serve him mutton Biryani, if our flight is hijacked then our own defense minister will escort the captured terrorists.. And yes every time after a bomb blast we appreciate the spirit of the city attacked and add insult to injury of the victims.

But why a common man like me is angry? Writing in Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi perhaps analyzed it best as to why Urban Middle Class was so angry this time. He wrote that our anger is the manifestation of realization that we are Impotent. There is nothing much we can do to change the scenario or avenge the attacks. After every bomb blast we feel outraged, leaders make repetitive statements and then soon it is forgotten and we get back to our internal bickering in name of region and religion.

As a mere Blogger I think the only option is to do what Israel did after Black September, Go after these people and kick the shit out of them in their own dens.
Fear can only be fought with Fear..

But are we Potent enough to do it is the Question???



I will end my end my post by writing few lines from Prasoon Joshi's poem:


Is baar karm ka hawala de kar nahin uthaoonga auzaar
Nahin karoonga phir se ek nayee shuruaat
Nahin banoonga misaal ek karmyogi ki
Nahin aaney doonga zindagi ko aasani se patri par
Utarney doonga usey keechad main,tedhey medhey raston pe
Nahin sookhney doonga deewaron par laga khoon
Halka nahin padney doonga uska rang
Is baar nahin banney doonga usey itna laachaar
Ki paan ki peek aur khoon ka fark hi khatm ho jaye
Is baar nahin

Is baar ghawon ko dekhna hai
Gaur se
Thoda lambe wakt tak
Kuch faisley
Aur uskey baad hausley
Kahin toh shuruat karni hi hogi
Is baar yahi tay kiya hai