Pre Diwali, Eid blasts in Delhi- 29th October 2005
The bomb attacks in Delhi in 3 different markets on the same evening left almost 55 dead and many ailing. Anyone who is civilized, follows a faith, believes in humanity would never commit such a ghastly act.
A friend’s Uncle expired in this attack because he was right at that spot where one of the bombs exploded.
A bus driver and conductor noticed a bomb inside a bus and tried to throw it outside of the bus. It saved the lives of rest of the passengers but the duo got badly bruised and the driver seems to have lost his hearing capability in one ear and seeing capacity in one eye.
Hindus died and so did Muslims as victims of this attack.
Moreover, we have a short memory. As time passes, people will forget about these blasts, their victims. How many blasts can people keep track of?
How long will this continue? Why we always come up with statements such as ‘these acts of terror will not derail the bilateral peace process’? Why are we helpless? Why are we at the mercy of perpetrators of such heinous crimes? Why do these attacks keep on happening every now and then in one or the other part of our Country?
Why don’t we make Delhi a fort which is impossible to conquer? One can see increased vigil only after such incidents though only for a short time.
Why don’t we increase the security at our airports and most importantly railway stations and bus stops?
Questions! Questions! Questions!
A friend’s Uncle expired in this attack because he was right at that spot where one of the bombs exploded.
A bus driver and conductor noticed a bomb inside a bus and tried to throw it outside of the bus. It saved the lives of rest of the passengers but the duo got badly bruised and the driver seems to have lost his hearing capability in one ear and seeing capacity in one eye.
Hindus died and so did Muslims as victims of this attack.
Moreover, we have a short memory. As time passes, people will forget about these blasts, their victims. How many blasts can people keep track of?
How long will this continue? Why we always come up with statements such as ‘these acts of terror will not derail the bilateral peace process’? Why are we helpless? Why are we at the mercy of perpetrators of such heinous crimes? Why do these attacks keep on happening every now and then in one or the other part of our Country?
Why don’t we make Delhi a fort which is impossible to conquer? One can see increased vigil only after such incidents though only for a short time.
Why don’t we increase the security at our airports and most importantly railway stations and bus stops?
Questions! Questions! Questions!
posted by Shoonya at
2:19 PM
4 Comments:
i looked and looked for your email id, coz it didn't seem right to write this here.. but here goes: und wo hast du deutsch gelernt? MMB?
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a s a, at 7:40 PM, November 09, 2005
Nein! nicht im Max Mueller. Ich arbeite bei eine Deutsch Organization.
My german is very bad :)
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Shoonya, at 2:51 PM, November 10, 2005
I don't know who to to blame. (Ourselves? Our politicians? Ever increasing population?)
But there's one thing I realise everytime there's a blast or terrorist attach anywhere in the world: Life has been made to appear very cheap in some countries.
Think of 9/11. I don't have the figures and I'm not going to google it out. Think of London blasts. Again, I don't want to go into figures. But, the number in both these cases is much less the number of people being forced to cut their beautiful lives short in the country being talked about every single year.
Why is there a widespread denouncement, show of rage and even entire countries being razed when it happens in one part of the world; while we see nothing but a few cries, orphaned kids, lost siblings and friends when a similar tragedy blows another part of the world apart.
*Sigh* Another kind of racism? (Or maybe it's the same old wine...)
-OotFog (One of the fifty odd guys...)
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Anonymous, at 7:29 PM, November 11, 2005
you have put me into thinking, OotFog.
I will share with you what one of my colleagues said. Though he talked in context of office work but i generalized it.
It is very important for us to solve our problems first. We can't talk about problems such as world hunger. We first have to talk about poverty in our country.
If we solve our problem, our neighbours solve their problems and so do their neighbours, then this will be a peaceful world to live in.
But there are some problems which affect the whole world (and which can be solved only if we are together)- terrorism being one of them. On topics such as those, we can talk on world level.
Rich and Powerful countries do retaliate when their integrity and security are questioned.
Third world countries can just shout about it.
All said, wrong is wrong and right is right- whoever be the doer.
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Shoonya, at 11:14 AM, November 12, 2005
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