7 blasts of 11-7

Sitting far away from the blasts affected areas and victims, in the college mess with a hot cup of chai and couple of eggs with upma and chutney, I thought a lot about our great Indian culture. I know it is easy to comment from where I sit and I would be a good for nothing piece of junk when it came to actually delivering in these emergency situations. All I know is contributing some old clothes, some blood donation and shooing away beggars at railway stations and traffic signals. But this is my blog and I am the king here. I will just put down what I felt as I read through columns and columns of facts and feelings from one of the nation’s many war wounds.


When the local residents helped the victims, it showed the great solidarity and altruistic attitudes of our people.
It also shows how grossly inadequate and inefficient our rescue and emergency operations are.

When Mumbai is up and running within 24hours of the disaster, it showed how professional and how quick we are at recovering from our losses.
It also shows how indifferent and casual we are about the whole affair.

We showed how much of information we have when the LeT man arrested a few days back gave us news about the possibility of such an attack.
It also shows that even when we have the clues staring right into our eyes and telling you of your impending doom, we are callous enough to ignore it.

When our politicians empathize with us and condemn the terrorist attacks, it shows how caring for the people and the nation and how outspoken we are.
It also shows what a bunch of hypocrites we are.

When the local transports are crowded and people help each other in through the crowd, it shows how helpful and friendly we are.
It also shows that we don’t need twin towers for victims of that number when one local train will do and how seriously insufficient our support systems are.

When the media puts up all the bloody and ghastly images on its front page, it shows how the media cares about the criticality of information it gives its readers.
It also shows how they leverage on creating excitement and reading frenzy by printing the most happening horrifying news items and pictures so that it sells.

Reminiscing on our history and finding that India has never attacked another country even though we have been attacked and plundered and raped and wounded by a thousand miscreants, shows what a peace loving country we are.
It also shows, what a set of diffident spineless forgetful complacent weak worthless cowards we are.