Just gave this article a read, and I guess it's extremely disjointed, i guess because i've written this over a long time and that I myself am pretty shaken with all this crap happening around us.
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I had just finished watching the fifth ODI between India and England last night, and was about to turn in when I casually switched the channel to NDTV, and then realised that India was under attack; YET again. And this has been the worst attack as far as I can remember.
This time, the whole incident seems to have taken the life out of everything; terror attacks happen every few months in our country, it seems like a periodic thing that unfortunately is expected to happen. Despite feeling angry, shaken and living in a state of uncertainty I was somehow always able to push it to some corner of my mind and get on with my work as usual up to now. This time however, it seems to have taken the life out of everything. Every few minutes I was invariably checking google news, ndtv and whatever news websites I could find, I just couldn't pull myself together to get down to work seriously..
A bunch of godless bastards just barge into Mumbai and start killing people left right and centre, attack the pride of Mumbai and India, the Taj hotel. India TV is openly accusing Pakistan of these attacks, some others are saying that this is being done by some bunch of morons who call themselves Deccan Mujahideen, and NDTV has reported that the terrorists were overheard talking in Punjabi to someone in Pakistan itself, the link seems clear.
I wonder whether India will finally do something about all this. As expected, the home minister Shivraj Patil has gone and said on air what he has learnt by heart by now. Condemn the attacks, tell the public that he will take all necessary steps to bring the cowards to justice. Why doesn't he just shut the hell up and resign! Clearly he isn't doing a damn thing to handle "Home ministry". What's heartening to see, is that at least the BJP and UPA seem to be working together in this crisis; but the CPM sticks to the blame game and says the home minister is responsible for this. Well, if you just blame other people and don't even as much as burp a word of support, I for sure will never ever vote for you.
Rushi, meanwhile is sitting next to me asking in his trademark one liner way - "How on earth can Deccan Mujahideen be from Karachi?! Obviously Pak is involved, the terrorists clearly have international funding to be able to withstand a siege like this for over 24 hours!"
I am also watching some footage on NDTV showing Barkha Dutt interviewing a lady and her daughter who I think have lost a member of their family and Dutt is actually asking her on live TV how she feels. I have a lot of respect for NDTV, but that was disgusting. Otherwise their coverage has been quite good. At the same time, I can't help feeling admiration for Sreenivasan Jain of NDTV who has been at the Taj Hotel site from the early hours of the morning, and is still reporting and holding the telecast together till now, and it's nearly midnight!
Earlier today while watching the live coverage, I could not help noticing that the TV channels were showing commandos taking positions around the Taj Hotel, and it struck me instantly that showing such footage on live television was utter stupidity. What if one of the terrorists flicked on a news channel to see the reactions to the attack and saw everything been shown regarding positions of police personnel? A couple of commandos positioned on top of the Gateway of India could be seen on TV! I did send an email to NDTV voicing this concern, and I'm sure several others would have sent similar feedback as well, and they did stop showing live footage of the 'war zone', that was a relief!
Top ATS officers killed early in the battle, the countries best commando units all working together to tackle the situation, the Taj Hotel, a symbol in itself of the great city of Mumbai for over a hundred years burning, the city bleeding all over; all this is exceedingly disheartening. I sincerely hope this doesn't snowball into rioting in Mumbai and elsewhere, I sincerely hope and pray that extreme thinking maniacs don't suddenly decide that this has been done by Muslims and they should be punished and all that. The only way out of this is if we close our mind to such dividing hateful thoughts, and smoke out those bastards who are responsible, strangle the bloody necks of the mindless devils who fund and train these terrorists, and forget that peace and appeals for calm is NOT going to make things better. I like what Shobha De said to NDTV; she practically yelled out agaisnt the incapable politicians, saying 'stay out of this city, the army is doing what it should. We don't want to see your Z level security when hundreds are dying all around you, we could use that bloody security here!'
My heart also goes out to all the Taj hotel staff who are being praised for taking care and reassuring their guests throughout the ordeal. I wonder how many more Indians must die, how many more families must be shattered before we finally change our policies make sure no one ever dares to attack us again. How long before we have a system where a captured terrorist is sent to the gallows instead of being 'pardoned' when it is clear that they've killed and murdered in the name of religion! We are obviously in a state of war, goddamnit. No one attacks a countries parliament or repeatedly blasts bombs all over a country for an effing pastime! This is a war that is not happening at the borders but within our nation, on our mother land, who says you can retaliate only at the border? When will we finally stand firm and repel these bastards once and for ever instead of meekly making a robotic benign statement for the record and choosing to forget about it, as if to imagine that it never happened?
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