Jinhe naaz hai Hind par...

October 2005: Three bombs placed in busy New Delhi markets a day before Diwali kill 62 people and injured hundreds.
March 2006: Twin bombings at a train station and a temple in Varanasi kill 20 people.
July 2006: Seven bombs on Mumbai's trains kill over 200 and injure 700 others.
September 2006: 30 dead and 100 hurt in twin blasts at a mosque in Malegaon.
May 2007: A bomb at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad kills 11 people.
August 2007: 30 dead, 60 hurt in Hyderabad 'terror' strike.
October 2007: 2 killed in a blast inside Ajmer Sharif shrine during Ramadan, in Rajasthan.
November 2007: 15 people killed in seven well-synchronised explosions near court premises in three cities of Uttar Pradesh -- Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad.
January 2008: Terrorist attack on CRPF camp in Rampur kills eight.
May 2008: Eight serial blasts rock Jaipur in a span of 12 minutes leaving 65 dead and over 150 injured.
July 25, 2008: Seven blasts strike the IT city of Bangalore killing at least two people and wounding at least 20.
July 26, 2008: Serial blasts in Ahmedabad kill close to 45 and injure over 100
and...
September 14, 2008 : Serial blasts rock New Delhi; 30 dead, 90 injured.

YET another blasts series.
But It has become such a commonality that we have really ceased to feel anything about it. Our sensitivity is numbed. मेरा भारत महान? I hate to say, but sorry, its hard to buy it anymore. Which self-respecting, proud country in world would have, after such brutal, agonizingly regular assaults, done nothing except mouthing big hollow words about 'severely punishing the terrorists'? Is the government pusillanimous or plainly ignorant, insensitive ? Are we a nation of cowards?

Delhi will now experience stringent-est security for a week or so. An then as we say in Marathi, again it will be 'ये रे माझ्या मागल्या'. No lessons learnt. No long term plan to combat the terror in a systematic manner. No proper investigation, no analysis. And if luckily they find some culprits, we'll always have the so called human rights watchers to save them.

Even WE are to blame. We have developed a very very dangerous 'I don't care' attitude. Unless n until we ourselves are at the receiving end, we won't do anything. If somebody gets hit, n is lying in the middle of the road in a pool of blood, we just pass by expecting that somebody else will help.

We need to wake up. n wake up real soon before a day comes when there's no tomorrow.

Song of the moment : गंजल्या ओठास माझ्या - ऊम्बरठा


i remain.