Bombay, India - Burning....Burnt?

Like everyone else the only thing that is hounding me these days other than my semester exams is the Mumbai Blasts... Like everybody else i'm concerned about Mumbai, about the people who died and quite obviously about my Country.

When the blasts occurred on the 26th of November, i was fast asleep in my home in Bangalore. The next morning the first thing i hear from my mother is that Mumbai is burning. Mumbai is under attack by terrorists and after that the only thing anyone is watching on tv is the unraveling of the terrible and horrific events going on in our Bombay. So many places attacked, so many people dead, so many tragic stories i've swallowed like a hungry shark in the last few days.

At first i was glad all the so called "leaders" of the nation said they'd fight it out together. I was glad that atleast now they see the importance of the situation. I hoped maybe, just maybe things were finally changing, but as someone once told me, hope is but delayed disappointment, these "leaders" were back to their old games. Accusations piled up on the other party..no matter if it's the ruling one or the opposition. It disgusts me. Period. It angers me. Even when the NSG were still fighting against these cruel evil doers the Opposition was throwing accusations as to whose fault it was that these terrorists actually got in. Don't you find this low?! don't you find this to be a cheap tactic?

62 hours...62 hours of terror on Bombay...nearly 200 dead and so many more hurt. The people who lost their lives, their relatives, the ones who were injured...it's terrible to even think what's going on here, isn't it?

i saw an ad on tv, by a Prasoon Joshi, about the Bombay spirit and how they usually get over everything and how they are always resilient. This ad, on the other hand, said Enough, i'm not going to be resilient anymore, i'm not going to gather all the pieces of this city, i'm not going to wash off the blood stains...you get the picture..This time the people of Bombay want a change. They want security. they want action. And they have a right to it.

Peace marches are going on these days, even in Bangalore...and i only hope something comes out of all this. With the elections close by every party is trying to bitch about the other to win a few votes, what if none of us vote? what happens then? i'd like to know.

will we ever learn...?