Guys, I am outraged. As I write this, multiple blasts have rocked Delhi. They say the number of dead is 18 and the number of injured is 90. They say it’s the Indian Mujahadeen. They say there isn’t any RDX used. They say they were low intensity blasts. They say and say and say. But what do they do. Zilch, nada, nothing.
We haven’t mourned yet for our fellow Indians who died in the recent serial blasts in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gujrat and Rajasthan. But even before the tears can stop, there is another attack that too in our national capital. They plant a bomb in India Gate-the most secure area in Delhi. If you can’t protect the powers that be, how will you protect us..the common men and women on the street?
Everyday, we live in the fear that it might be our last day alive. Should life be this difficult? We have our worries—inflation, pollution, taxes, bad infrastructure, new ailments, deteriorating relationships– are sucking the life out of us slowly. Isn’t that enough? Should a simple thing like commuting to work and back home be a battle for survival?
Why is it that even as I write it…I worry. Tomorrow is Ananth Chaturthi. Thousands on Mumbaikars will converge on the beaches of Chowpatty and Juhu to bid adieu to their favourite god. No police force on earth can watch the millions on the street. Please God show mercy. Watch over them. We-the common men and women of India- won’t be able to take another blow.
Nikhil said
“We won’t be able to take another blow.”
Umm.. i beg to differ. The problem with our country is that not too many people really care about the blasts. Which is why they keep happening and happening and happening and nothing is done about them. It can be looked upon in two ways: a) Most Indians agree to this or believe to be the reason and propagate this, but frankly I just think it is bullshit. Reason being: We have become resilient and no bomb blast can deter us. Umm, no we haven’t. And yes, it can. But as I said, we just don’t care.
b) We don’t care!!
The reason for that is manifold, but the most imp one is – India is too big a country for someone living in Mumbai to worry about what happens in Ahemadabad or vice versa. And so much bullshit keeps happening, we can’t spend our energies on thinking about it over and over again. Also, the “common man” really doesn’t matter to us.
But here’s the irony – When an Ishmeet dies, the entire country comes together to mourn. Why? because he is a celeb and his one life is more imp than the hundred lives of commoners. cuzthat’s really the thinking in every common man today. it’s crap, but that’s what it is. Everyone will “express” their grief when commoners die, but they actually feel bad when a celeb goes away. Again, it can be said it’s just that we knew that person, at least thru TV, than the common people. But it’s again cuz we can’t keep bothering.
Cuz if we DID care – there wud have been a mass movement, a mass protest, a mass rebellion against the bullshit of our system. We would have revolted and said, DO SOMETHING! We would have forced, pressurized, or done away with our govt – anything to make it stop. ANYTHING TO MAKE IT STOP. Because we CAN. How is it that they always manage to stay two steps ahead of us? I refuse to believe that in a country of 1 billion people, we don’t have 10 intelligent people who can kick some terrorist ass. But we don’t CARE!
So yeah, we can take another blow. Don’t know for how long. Maybe until we actually do start caring. Cuz after that, it’s not that we won’t be able to take a blow – we just WON’T take a blow. Let’s wait for that to happen.