Horrible!!

I was having a pleasant evening yesterday. Went out to the city with a couple of friends on our bicycles, ate chaat on the way and joking around. Coz’ of the light and nice mood I was in, I called up a school friend of mine after coming back to my room. And the first thing she said, “Ya, am all right. Don’t worry!” It didn’t take her long to realize that I don’t know about the Delhi serial blasts. I was repulsed by the news. Just when normalcy was starting to set in, such a nefarious act spoilt the relaxed mood that I had been carrying the whole day. Firstly, I called up my dear ones in Delhi and then went online reading about the news. The gory sites of blasts, at three different places in Delhi, present a picture of utter sadness and gloom. I read the Government’s address and statements which were the usual banter of how the nation is ready to face such acts and smeared with the usual cliche - ‘fight against terrorism’.

It’s the fourth city which is being attacked in this year from b’lore to ahmedabad to jaipur to the capital. Inspite of such news and advanced knowledge of an impending disaster being planned, the security fails and there is utter chaos. Is this a failure of the government machinery, or the smartness of the terrorists to know about how to find loopholes and flaws in the arrangements? There will be a lot of questions and an equal number of ‘politically correct’ answers. No matter how much we Indians hate destruction and genocide, the face of terror always catches up at the most festive and most fraternizing times.