2nd Dec 2008
Last night as I dined with my sis and her friend at Papa Pancho in Bandra, we hit upon the terror topic, again. I went on with the Enough is Enough song when my sis came up with something I didn't ponder upon so far.
She told me she thought I was over reacting because this time it was the "Taj" and the "Oberoi" and not some nondescript place like an institution of justice in Guwahati where scores of lawyers lost their lives barely 2 months back..
No one said enough is enough then..
She argued that it is the presence of foreigners including Israelis, among the dead, that has forced Rice, rush to India to calm down soaring temperatures.
The dead included employees of the Tata group and some of the highest tax payers in India, in fact, the entire area of south Mumbai which came under fire contributes to a chunk of taxes in India.
And so, enough is enough?
No one seems to be talking about Malegaon or Lumbini Park in Hyderabad or the local train blasts in Mumbai or my beloved Karol Bagh in Delhi anymore..Why? Have the perpetrators been caught?Those lives were inferior or unimportant or what? Aren't those places equally symbolic of our democratic values? If we had acted then, could we not have averted this?
From 1993 to 2008, does it take 15 good years to say enough is enough?
I could only manage a feeble.. u mm..m mm..yes dahling..you have a point ..
In the mean time, plugged into TV to watch Sanjay Dutt sharing his feelings about the attack and shameful scenes of our heroes(really??), the commandos being taken away in a BEST bus after the ordeal ended. And just how we reacted, blocked traffic when our cricket team won the 20-20 cup..Real heroes, who? Dhoni or Major Sandeep..Do we understand the difference?
Weep, my country, weep..there is no respite..
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I hope this time it will be any different from those times... I want them all dead!
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ReplyDeletewell i think its not ur fault completely.. we react to things only when we have access to them.. media was never so hyped on issues before that.. indeed mumbai holds the nerve and therefore is covered with too much of a hulla balloo.. again, before this i think it was majorly blasts that used to take place.. it creates panic, but its majorly momentarily.. this time, it went for good 60 hours which is enough for people to forget in case there is a blast.. i m not trying to protect urs or mine negligence here, but this time it was impossible not to panic.. i remember, i went mad to hear bout blasts in tripura also, but media didnt say much about it.. may be dhoni was posing naked for them at that time..
ReplyDeleteI do not think Enough's enough just because it is the Taj or the Oberoi. We have never seen a siege attack like this before. People of India probably know that something like this happens in Kashmir and it is accepted as a matter of fact. Though we all know that we are trapped in a dirty quagmire of politics, corruption..., bureaucracy..lax security... the extent of danger it can expose us to has now really dawned upon us.
ReplyDeleteSo instead of wondering why not before and why now.. I personally feel that we should be glad that atleast now we are reacting strongly and let it not fade away.
of all the people in this country look who is talking about terrorism! Sanjay dutt!! If you sentence someone you must make sure he is behind the bars. But look at this guy....
ReplyDeleteNow your sis is right. Dead right. But my point is that at least now we have said 'enough is enough'. That is an improvement!
Poor Israelis! Don't blame them!