Enough 's enough..really?

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..