Some said, now the world powers will be able to understand the strategic role India as a country has to play on the world map. Some tried to likened the attack to 9/11 and some contemplated about the possible terrorist organization that led the massacre. Some watched in awe; some in amazement with extreme disbelief. There were onlookers outside the hotel Taj waiting to see our brave army and navy commandos in action. We wanted to watch every move and every action commending them, praising them who laid their lives for safety of their country men and women.
But while I was doing that, what really made me bewildered and choked my throat in pain was watching a baby girl who had lost her parents in the attack, a 13 year old boy who lost everybody in his family his parents, his siblings, everybody, and he himself was so badly hurt that the doctors didn’t have the courage to tell him the truth. And a family who were returning back to their hometown lost each and every member of his family. Those eyes , those vacant gloomy eyes made me difficult to sleep at night. I woke up in fear a couple of times at night as the scene of that patrol jeep opening fire at the hapless crowd who the crowd initially had thought as the police jeep to get help from left them so vulnerable! The trusts were broken the faith was shattered! These are the most common people of any country who suffer the severest consequences without having the full knowledge of whatever happened and why it happened. What would that baby understand about the world politics and what would she care about why some terrorist organizations have a mission of Jihad who have taken a vow to destroy some countries. A 13 year old having his dreams and aspirations at the peak doesn’t know and doesn’t understand why does it all happen.
After a couple of days the situation came back to normal I heard in the news! Local trains have started and people have resumed their work, and everything has been taken under control. Really? I asked myself! Just because the Bombay stock exchange is back in action full swing and the sound of that locals have again started roaring in the city, life really became normal? Are these the parameters to gauge the normalcy of any situation? How many of them are fearless now that nothing can happen to them the next moment? How many of them feel safe going to work in a high rise building without any fear and how many are even enjoying their most leisure activity like shopping without fear lurking in their mind that some gunmen or shooters wont just pop up from any vague corner and start shooting at the crowd! Would the life really become normal and can it ever be for that baby who would recognize her parents only through pictures? Which direction does that 13 year old have to go for guidance and support in his life? How normal will the life be for that man who would go back to an empty house and empty walls with pictures of his family all over?
Until we are living in the world where things would happen without the understanding of a common man the life does not turn to normalcy. Unless we are able to board a flight without fear that there wont be any liquid explosive planted somewhere in the form of shampoo or toothpaste life doesn’t become normal. We are getting accustomed to live in a world where there is no safety for life. After the incident has taken place the intellectuals sit in a panel and discuss all about where and how and what these terrorist organizations are doing! Which country and which place will be their next target and how they did have some intelligence report about this massacre but the Indian politicians in this situation failed and didn’t take any measures to do something about it. Day in day out there have been investigations going on and the leaders are brainstorming over the intelligence report and what had transpired and how they had informed the leaders of this oncoming threat and who should be held accountable and who should resign thereafter just as a facade for the media and crowd.
Until there is an organization out there whose mission is to destroy the world peace and who are brain damaging the young boys in their teens to sacrifice their life for the mission the ultimate goal of which is to annihilate the world in flames , we cannot claim that life is normal.
When I turn on the security system at night before going to bed, and think that probably I have secured the safety for me and my family for the night, my heart bleeds thinking about all the kids and babies who are the most innocent victims of these kinds of massacres, now have nobody to turn to for their safety in this most unsafe world……………
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