News- “Another bomb blast rocks Pune”Our reaction- “Hmm!”
News-“No one died. Few injured mildly.”
Our reaction- “Oh my fucking God!”
What is happening to our country! No one dead. It seems we are losing our tradition of high death toll during blasts. Ever since the 1993, more people have died in India due to blasts than anywhere else in the world. And we are proud to say that. After all we are number one for once. No one, not even the first world countries, can ever think of coming near to us in this field, ever. And we show all our pride by spending crores on the ‘heros’ who have tried to maintain this track record of ours.
We are accustomed to a bomb or gunman comes along and shakes our faith in the idea of ‘normalcy’. And we have taken so much time and pain to absorb this. Yesterday 5 blasts took place and 1 was diffused. How can our Government let such a thing happen? How can it diffuse the last bomb? May be that was the bomb that was to shake us again, bringing back the happy memories of blasts and give news channels field of the day. How can the Government be so careless? But maybe it was not!
People are saying that this was not the act of any terrorist group. And I tend to agree with them. Had it been some terrorist group, there would have been a lot of casualties. These terrorist groups have got more practice than our athletes competing in the Olympics.
Congress might be behind this. And if this is true, then who the hell gave them right to break the trend of deaths after blast! They had no right to keep people from mourning for one hour and then go back to their routine.
It might be the work of congress just to divert the attention of the people from the Anna Hazare campaign, that's why the bombs are low intensity bombs. But what’s the use of this? Govt. could have easily fooled the public again and saved this shame of zero casualty. After all we want to be bombed and bled over and over again.
And if the Congress is not behind this, then there are two possibilities: The first is that new kids are emerging because the old ones have lost their vibe. The second one is that the old pros are testing new toys. If this is the case then it is good news. This means that India has not lost its position and is still the “golden bird” that the world wants to kill.
On a more serious note it must be pointed out that we as a society are all victims of bomb blasts. We may display an indifference to what is happening around us and this could be interpreted that having become desensitized to bomb blasts. This occurs at a superficial level. Some might consider this as a coping strategy, but nevertheless as a result, we have not adopted the necessary steps to address this very serious problem. At a deeper level, we as individuals and a society as a whole are being very seriously affected, not only in terms of loss of life and property but psychologically as well.
We have to ensure that we don’t become such people who have more ‘spirit’ but are just becoming more thick-skinned as a people.
